GNOME Summary, Oct 12-20

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

This is the GNOME Summary for October 12-20.

Over 40 new and updated applications this week, have a look at the end of this 
summary or check out the software map on 
  http://www.gnome.org

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  Table of Contents
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 1)  The Famous Elliot Lee Interviewed on Linux.com
 2)  CORBA and The GNOME
 3)  Red Hat 6.1 Installer uses GNOME Python Technology
 4)  Dia 0.80 released
 5)  GTK+/Gnome Application Development now in SGML
 6)  October GNOME for FreeBSD
 7)  Hacking Activity
 8)  New and Updated Software

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 1)  The Famous Elliot Lee Interviewed on Linux.com

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Nat and Miguel also have cameos in this interview:

  http://linux.com/interviews/19991014/23/

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 2)  CORBA and The GNOME

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There's a CORBA and Bonobo tutorial available now, thanks to the 
efforts of Mathieu Lacage and Dirk-Jan C. Binnema. It has diagrams
and everything; a nice document.

  http://developer.gnome.org/doc/guides/corba/

Of course the diagrams were created with Dia, the GNOME diagram editor 
and a component of the GNOME Workshop office suite.

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 3)  Red Hat 6.1 Installer uses GNOME Python Technology

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Red Hat 6.1 appeared on store shelves Monday, with a shiny new
graphical installer written with James Henstridge's Python bindings
for GNOME. This is a nice example of GNOME in production use, showing
off the utility of language bindings.

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 4)  Dia 0.80 released

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Speaking of Dia ;-) Alexander Larsson announced a new release this
week. It includes James Henstridge's work to allow new shapes to be
defined in XML (a subset of the SVG standard). This means you can
extend Dia to have new diagram elements without writing any code.

Find the announce here:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-October/0605.shtml

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 5)  GTK+/Gnome Application Development now in SGML

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Thanks to Dave Mason, my book is now in DocBook format; this means
we have nice HTML and PostScript versions. 

The new HTML is on the book page, here:

  http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/

I'll get PostScript and tarball HTML up there shortly, you can also
generate those from CVS using the db2* scripts as for other GNOME
modules.

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 6)  October GNOME for FreeBSD

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Announce here:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-October/0564.shtml

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 7)  Hacking Activity

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Module Score-O-Matic:
 (number of CVS commits per module, during this week)

  76 gtk--
  53 entity
  42 libgtop
  36 gnome-core
  36 dia
  34 gimp
  29 gnumeric
  27 mooonsooon
  26 glade--
  23 gnome-libs
  22 gnome-games
  21 libsigc++
  21 gnomeweb
  15 gnome-pim
  14 gnome-vfs
  14 dr-genius
  12 gtkhtml
  11 oaf
  11 gxsnmp
  11 gnome-chess
  10 goose
  10 bonobo-doc
  10 beast
  10 GGAD

User Score-O-Matic:
 (number of CVS commits per user, during this week)

  84 kenelson
  46 martin
  43 martijn
  33 imain
  29 christof
  25 mback
  23 unammx
  20 mwimer
  19 jirka
  18 hp
  17 sopwith
  16 mmeeks
  16 kmaraas
  15 jpr
  15 ettore
  14 timj
  14 rasta
  13 jrb
  13 itp
  12 hallon
  11 glaurent
  11 alexl
  10 trow
  10 jamesh
  10 eskil
  10 davidsa

"OAF" (Object Activation Framework) hit CVS; this is Elliot's
replacement for the current libgnorba activation system.

There was a new release of the Goose statistical library, with 
quite a few enhancements.

Anders Carlsson checked in GtkHTML, a port of KHTMLView. It isn't
quite complete but the basic framework is in place; it's translated to
C and the GTK+ object system. The API is pretty much the same as the
original widget. This gives us a lightweight HTML widget for simple
tasks, to be complemented by an embeddable Mozilla component and
perhaps the new GtkXmHTML if anyone completes the work for that.
Between the three alternatives, HTML should pretty much be
covered.:-)

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 8)  New and Updated Software

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LED Counter    - applet that counts things
gimon          - ISDN monitor applet
Xwhois         - Whois frontend
gnome-chess    - Chess interface
gbox_applet    - biff-style mailbox watcher applet
Gnome Toaster  - CD writer
Emma           - Money manager (income, expenses, etc.)
GPacman        - Pacman clone
guile-gtk      - Guile bindings for GTK+
irssi          - IRC client
oregano        - Electrical Engineering Tool
sawmill        - Nice clean window manager
gproc          - process list
gvidchanger    - Applet to switch video resolutions
gnupaghe       - version -0.0.1
elknews        - news reader
galway         - web site editor
Atomix         - mind game
gnofin         - track checking/savings accounts
Eucalyptus     - Email application
Electric Ears  - Audio player/editor
Gaby           - Personal database manager (addresses, etc.)
libgtop        - library for getting system information
gtop           - system monitor application
gnome-utils    - GNOME utilities package
gnome-python   - Python bindings for GNOME
gnome-pim      - Calendar/address book
gnome-games    - GNOME games package
esound         - Sound library/daemon
ORBit          - fast, light ORB
gdm            - xdm replacement
gnome-libs     - GNOME libraries
gnome-media    - GNOME media apps
gnome-core     - GNOME core (panel, session manager, etc.)
Gnome QuickRes - applet to change resolutions
gaddr          - address book
Pan            - news reader
gReporter      - database reporting
gnome-ttt      - tic tac toe game
GSnes9x        - Nintendo emulator
Quest          - role-playing game
gerk           - applet for using one-button mice
teatime        - time your tea-making

See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more
information about any of these packages.

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Until next week - 

Havoc