GNOME Summary October 20-26

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

This is the GNOME Summary for October 20-26.

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  Table of Contents
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 1)  GNOME Documentation Project has a home page
 2)  User FAQ Updated
 3)  Japanese GNOME User Group
 4)  Speaking In Japan
 5)  Development release of GNOME core
 6)  Copyright Notices
 7)  MICO-to-GNOME authentication bridge
 8)  WindowMaker dock app applet needed
 9)  Hacking Activity
 10) New and Updated Software

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 1)  GNOME Documentation Project has a home page

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Dave Mason has created a web page, assembled a documentation team, and all 
kinds of crazy stuff. Check it out:

  http://www.gnome.org/gdp/

Of course we have some really nice documentation already (such as the
free User's Guide and free developer books), but now we have
infrastructure for future documentation.

Dave also posted about the API documentation status:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-October/0927.shtml


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 2)  User FAQ Updated

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One of the documentation project's first steps was updating the FAQ,
read here:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/940552777/index_html

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 3)  Japanese GNOME User Group

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Continuing GNOME's international flavor and appeal, we have a new 
user group in Japan, announced here:

 http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/940916835/index_html

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 4)  Speaking In Japan

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I'm giving a GNOME talk in Japan on November 1st, then there will be a
GNOME BOF on November 2.

Read here:

  http://www.gnu.org/events.html

or the page in Japanese:

  http://www.iijnet.or.jp/sea/Events/seminar/gnu99n01.html

If you're in Japan, consider stopping by one or both events.  There
will also be talks by RMS, Werner Koch (GNUPG), and Kennichi Handa
(Emacs/MULE).

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 5)  Development release of GNOME core

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An ALPHA, UNSTABLE release of the gnome-core and gnome-applets modules
came out this week. 

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/940637133/index_html

There are lots of nifty new features, described at the above URL.
Note: this is an unstable release. DO NOT expect us to support it.
If it breaks, you keep both pieces.

That said, please do try it out if you're willing to send patches and
bug reports.

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 6)  Copyright Notices

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A reminder, inspired by a recent incident now resolved and
apologized-for:

 - Before using someone else's code, ask that person (it's just polite)
 - Always retain copyright notices on code that you use (it's the law)
 - Always add copyright notices to code that you write 

This applies to code in CVS as well as "released" code; remember that
our CVS repository is mirrored into anonymous repositories all over
the world.

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 7)  MICO-to-GNOME authentication bridge

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Stefan Westerfeld has written an add-on for MICO so that it will 
use the GNOME authentication system and can talk to ORBit and GNOME applications.
Very nice.
 
Read about it here:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-kde-list/1999-October/0023.shtml

Some clarification, if you aren't familiar with CORBA:

 - ORBit and other ORBs (such as MICO) have no problem communicating
 - However, there is no standard way to _authenticate_ CORBA connections.
   Thus GNOME and KDE have different solutions.
 - This is the problem Stefan has addressed.

It is not a hard problem, but it is a problem that no one had stepped
up to work on.

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 8)  WindowMaker dock app applet needed

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See this mailing list post, and followups:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-October/0950.shtml

Basically we need a panel applet that will swallow WindowMaker dock
apps, and do the panel communication for them. In particular, you can
swallow the dock apps now if you aren't using Enlightenment, but the
panel forgets about them since it doesn't know how to restart them; an
applet wrapper would cure this. An applet wrapper could also present a
property box to select what app to put inside it, etc.

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 9)  Hacking Activity

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734 commits this week.

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

  95 gnome-core
  45 entity
  41 gimp
  40 gxsnmp
  36 GGAD
  35 gnumeric
  30 gnome-pilot
  29 gnome-libs
  26 gnome-applets
  24 gtk--
  20 gtkhtml
  18 gnome-pim
  17 dr-genius
  15 web-devel-2
  15 libsigc++
  14 libgtop
  13 gdk-pixbuf
  11 rosegarden
  11 glade--
  11 bug-buddy

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

  48 unammx
  40 dcm
  36 jberkman
  34 sopwith
  34 kenelson
  32 jirka
  30 imain
  25 gregm
  22 martin
  19 andersca
  18 jrb
  18 eskil
  17 kmaraas
  15 mwimer
  15 dres
  14 davidsa
  12 hp
  12 christof
  11 remlali
  10 tml
  10 neo
  10 mmeeks
  10 jaka

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 10)  New and Updated Software

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graham - document organizer
gimon - ISDN monitor
GMatH - math program
gbox_applet - mail watcher applet
gnometris - Tetris clone
Nightfall - Astronomy program
sawmill - Nice window manager
GProc - process list
gmessage - like xmessage
MiniCPPEnvironment - Simple IDE thing, looks neat, see screenshot in software map
GMail - mail client
gnome-pilot - Palm Pilot tools
Quest - Role playing game
gnome-core - GNOME core components
gnome-applets - GNOME panel applets
morpheus - 3D model viewer
Picview - image viewer
gxsnmp - network monitor tool
gnome-ttt - Tic Tac Toe
Gnome Toaster - CD burner
DPS FTP - ftp client
elknews - news client
Pygmy - mail client

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