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GNOME Summary March 22 - April 4 (Devel GTK displaying right-to-left interfaces, Miguel interview, Federico interview, gnome-core unstable release, stable bugfix releases, GUADEC summary, GTK TODO list, sysadmin tool project, project of the week)


This is the GNOME Summary for March 22-April 4, 2000.

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  Table of Contents
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 1)  Cool Pango screenshots
 2)  Miguel on Slashdot
 3)  gnome-core release
 4)  Interview with Federico
 5)  Updates to stable GNOME
 6)  GUADEC summary from O'Reilly
 7)  GTK+ TODO list updates
 8)  Sysadmin tool project
 9)  Project of the Week
 10)  Hacking Activity
 11)  New and Updated Software

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 1)  Cool Pango screenshots

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After months of work and design, Owen started applying Pango to GTK
and rapidly got some cool results; see the screenshots here:

  http://www.pango.org/gallery.shtml

Be sure to scroll down, the good screenshots are at the bottom.  Most
of testgtk already had the correct interface-flipping behavior without
any special programmer intervention, which bodes well for the amount
of work required to get GNOME running in Hebrew. This is a big benefit
of GTK's geometry management (along with windows that behave properly
when resized, of course).

The first tarball snapshot of GTK 1.3 is also available, Owen mentions
it in his Pango update; check this out if you are _very_ adventurous.

  http://www.pango.org/status-000404

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 2)  Miguel on Slashdot

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Slashdot has a nice interview with Miguel:

  http://slashdot.org/interviews/00/04/03/2344211.shtml

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 3)  gnome-core release

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Another preview of the upcoming GNOME update:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/954892907/index_html

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 4)  Interview with Federico

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See here:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/954505622/index_html

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 5)  Updates to stable GNOME

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gnome-libs and control center were updated. Get your bug fixes here:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-announce-list/2000-April/0008.shtml
  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-announce-list/2000-March/0036.shtml

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 6)  GUADEC summary from O'Reilly

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This one is really old, it just missed the last Summary. But it's a
nice writeup of GUADEC.

  http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/a/linux/2000/03/21/guadec/guadec.html

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 7)  GTK+ TODO list updates

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If you're curious what's desired for GTK+ 1.4, or how you can help
enhance the GUI library your apps depend on, check out the
newly-populated GTK+ TODO list:

  http://developer.gnome.org/status/

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 8)  Sysadmin tool project

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A new mailing list was created for discussion of graphical system
administration tools. The list follows a long thread on
gnome-devel-list.

Read about the new list:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-announce-list/2000-March/0034.shtml

And the start of the thread that inspired it:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-devel-list/2000-March/0433.shtml

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 9)  Project of the Week

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Thanks to Federico and Ettore for suggesting this project: finish a
PPP dialer. There are two in CVS; gnome-ppp and RP3. RP3 is a more
complete GUI (except for the weird way you launch it) and uses wvdial
to autodetect modem/PPP settings. It's quite functional but is Red Hat
specific for now. gnome-ppp I haven't looked at in a while but it also
has significant code in place. Most of the work for either is in the
backend, not the GUI, if you're going to make it nice; users should
not be required to write scripts or specify command lines.

The project is to actually sit down and finish one of these things for
real, so it can ship in gnome-utils. ;-) This requires a pragmatic,
get-it-done approach.

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 10)  Hacking Activity

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Module Score-O-Matic:
 (number of CVS commits per module, since the last summary)

 221 evolution
 201 gimp
 200 gnome-core
 170 gnumeric
 118 gnome-applets
  94 nautilus
  87 pybliographer
  85 gnome-db
  75 gtkhtml
  75 balsa
  73 gedit
  66 gegl
  43 gnomacs
  42 achtung
  41 gnome-utils
  39 gb
  37 dr-genius
  37 dia
  37 control-center
  35 bonobo
  34 gnome-pilot
  32 gnome-pim
  32 galway  30 gnome-python
  29 gtk+
  28 sketch
  26 gnome-libs
  25 gnomeicu
  24 gtk--
  24 gphoto
  24 ggv
  22 gnome-print
  21 ghex
  20 bug-buddy
  19 web-devel-2
  19 mc
  19 glib
  19 glade--
  19 ORBit
  18 gIDE
  18 beast

User Score-O-Matic:
 (number of CVS commits per user, since the last summary)

  95 fredgo
  90 martin
  85 kmaraas
  76 jberkman
  70 miguel
  68 mmeeks
  67 ettore
  65 rodrigo
  65 film
  62 darin
  59 jody
  58 jirka
  52 jleach
  52 arios
  48 danw
  45 neo
  42 cgabriel
  41 spapadim
  36 chema
  35 mitch
  34 utx
  33 rasta
  33 peterw
  31 jpr
  31 eskil
  31 clahey
  30 ke
  30 hilaire
  29 hp
  28 pawels
  28 bherzog
  26 jhellan
  26 jamesh
  25 pablo
  25 alastairmck

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 11)  New and Updated Software

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Software since the last summary. Jonathan kindly contributed this 
section, saving me some time this week.

Sodipodi - A general vector drawing program.
Jungle Monkey - Distributed file sharing program.
xNetTools - Clone of a MacOS network tool program AGNetTools.
gmessage+ - Clone of xmessage for GNOME.
genigma - Emulation of the famous Enigma.
groach - Return of "xroach".
gnect - Classic four in a row game.
Pybliographer - Tool for manipulating bibliographic databases.
Pan - Usenet newsreader for GNOME.
GNOME Breakout - Breakout clone.
Gnomba - GUI Samba Browser.
Gaspell - Frontend to Aspell
XRoadMaker - PCB designer with a customizable router engine.
MMC - A Mail Client
GnomeICU - Gnome ICQ client.
Etherape - A network monitor.
gnome-ttt-3d - Tic Tac Toe game.
Gnome Mp3 Database - MP3 database creator.
MemoPanel - Memo applet for the GNOME panel.
gob - Preprocessor for GTK+ objects.
Gnome Toaster - CD creation suite.
Spruce - Small and fast mail client.
GnoZip - WinZip(tm) Clone.
Gnome UPS Monitor - Network UPS Tools package.
TeleGNOME - Program for viewing Teletekst pages (Netherlands)
Yet Another MP3 Tool - MP3 organizer.
gnome-napster - MP3-sharing system.
PowerShell - Notebook based terminal emulator.
ORBit - CORBA ORB aiming for CORBA 2.2 compliance.
GNU Midnight Commander - The GNOME file manager.
gtkdiff - Diff front-end program.
Atomix - A mind game about atoms and molecules.
yank - Notekeeper a todolist manager.
Gnumeric - Spreadsheet program.
glibmm - C++ bindings for GLib.
Gnetutil - Ping, traceroute host and finger frontend.
Mahogany - Cross-platform e-mail application.
solfege - Eartraining program.
galway - Web page editor.
gnome-8ball - Magic eight ball applet for the GNOME panel.
Sketch - A vector drawing program.
Gm3u - MP3 play-list editor.
Floyd - Scene graph library and VRML browser/loader.
GnomeTREK - Search tool for the Star Trek Encyclopedias.
CodeCommander - Functional all-purpose editor.
Gnome ReadNews - NNTP-client.
wmdrawer - Drawer applet for window maker.
gimon - ISDN monitor applet for the GNOME panel.
BEAST/BSE - Sound synthesizer and object model testbed.
GSwitchIt - Xkb state indicator applet for the GNOME panel.

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
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