GNOME Summary April 25-May 8 (KDevelop support, GTK Emacs, GNOME in Germany, Users Guide, IRIX packages, new gnome-libs, Evolution status report)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

This is the GNOME Summary for April 25 - May 8, 2000.

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  Table of Contents
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 1)  KDevelop 1.2 has GNOME application templates
 2)  GTK (X)Emacs efforts
 3)  GNOME in Germany
 4)  Users Guide Prerelease
 5)  Insane quantity of mail clients
 6)  IRIX Packages Updated
 7)  New gnome-libs
 8)  Evolution Update
 9)  Hacking Activity
 10)  New and Updated Software

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 1)  KDevelop 1.2 has GNOME application templates

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The KDevelop guys are supporting GNOME application targets now, so you
can use KDevelop to write your GNOME apps. Check it out. 

  http://www.kdevelop.org

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 2)  GTK (X)Emacs efforts

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William Perry has a SourceExchange project to port XEmacs to GTK+:

  http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/gui-xemacs/

Martin Baulig, a GNOME hacker now working at SuSE, also has some
pretty extensive work on GTK+ Emacs/XEmacs in CVS, under the 'gnomacs'
module.

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 3)  GNOME in Germany

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With Martin working at SuSE, GNOME is moving forward in
Germany. Martin has set up a web page with information of interest to
GNOME users and developers in Germany:

  http://www.home-of-linux.org/gnome/germany/

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 4)  Users Guide Prerelease

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The docs team has been hard at work on an update of the GNOME users
guide for the upcoming GNOME 1.2 release. Check out this announcement:

  http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gnome-doc-list/2000-May/000111.html

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 5)  Insane quantity of mail clients

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Two new ones, first TradeClient:

  http://www.tradeclient.org

and CSCMail:

  http://www.cyberdeck.org/cscmail/

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 6)  IRIX Packages Updated

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See this post:

  http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gnome-announce-list/2000-May/000025.html

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 7)  New gnome-libs

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gnome-libs 1.0.60 is out. The most interesting change in this release
is that now the antialiased mode for GnomeCanvas is "officially
supported."

  http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gnome-announce-list/2000-May/000030.html

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 8)  Evolution Update

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Matt Loper sent me Evolution status updates last Monday and also this
Monday.  So, here are two status reports - looks like Helix is finally
starting to write the user-visible shell itself, while previously they
were focused on the components that would go into it.

Status Update #1:

Evolution, GNOME's groupware solution, is well underway.

Here's our progress for the week:

* OAF support and compilation cleanup (ettore)

* allowing the wombat to terminate cleanly (federico)

* many mail-display enhancements (danw)
   - much better multipart support
   - better "embedded message in message" support
   - dingus clicking
   - unrecognized attachment support
   - camel auto-loadable providers

* libcamel (mail library) enhancements (zucchi)
   - camelstream restructuring
   - much faster mail reading in new mbox provider
   - bugfixing

* iCalendar work (seth)

* LDAP server dialog and improved support (toshok)

* importing of pine addressbooks (clahey)

* integration of a name parsing engine, and contact dialog enhancements
(clahey)

* faster e-table resorting (clahey)

* client/server and ui enhancement in the calendar (damon)

* respawning of dead bonobo controls (matt)

* undo/redo additions, bugfixing, and image editing in the html editor
(ettore, larry, and radek)

Status Update #2:

Evolution's growing by leaps and bounds! The most impressive accomplishment
this week was Ettore's massive overhaul of the shell, which makes Evolution
much more flexible. Other developments include....

The mailer:

* Dynamic provider work (danw)
* Mail config druid (danw)
* KPOP support (danw)
* expunging for mbox provider (zucchi)
* really nice search functionality (zucchi)
* 2 orders of magnitude speed increase (!) in
  ETable startup and column sort times (zucchi and clahey)

The calendar:

* tons of bugfixing (damon)

The addressbook:

* LDAP server dialog work (toshok)
* ETable view of addresses (toshok & clahey)
* Hooking it up to the shell properly (clahey)

GtkHTML/composer work:
* Some utf-8 insertion work (lewing)
* fixing an embedded widget problem (lewing)
* pasting fixes (lewing)

Other items:
* purify compilation support (toshok)
* wombat fixups (federico)

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 9)  Hacking Activity

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

 311 evolution
 231 nautilus
 123 gnumeric
 121 gnome-core
 111 gnomacs
  99 gimp
  64 gnome-applets
  64 gimp-freetype
  61 gnome-libs
  60 gnome-db
  57 balsa
  53 gnome-utils
  52 gtkhtml
  50 gnome-games
  48 gnome-i18n
  48 bonobo
  45 gnome-vfs
  42 gtranslator
  37 control-center
  36 gnomeicu
  35 pan
  34 gedit
  31 dr-genius
  30 gnome-media
  25 bug-buddy
  24 gxsnmp
  22 gnome-print
  21 gtk+
  21 desktop-docs
  21 achtung
  20 sodipodi
  19 guppi3
  19 gnomeweb-wml
  18 eog
  16 mc
  16 gegl

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

 141 pablo
 136 darin
 126 kenneth
 115 kmaraas
  96 martin
  78 ettore
  69 ahyden
  58 ke
  53 zucchi
  53 frob
  51 jody
  49 neo
  48 danw
  47 jberkman
  47 clahey
  42 kabalak
  42 jesusb
  40 mmeeks
  38 mitch
  37 jirka
  35 rodo
  30 toshok
  30 rasta
  28 sullivan
  28 rodrigo
  25 nakai
  24 mstachow
  24 dmueth
  23 jleach
  23 chyla
  22 miguel
  21 ramiro
  21 pawels
  21 hilaire
  20 mathieu
  19 owen
  18 jochen
  18 chema
  18 charles
  18 cgabriel
  17 tml
  17 lauris
  17 dcm
  17 bansz

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 10)  New and Updated Software

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Software since the last summary.

Bluefish - HTML editor
GTransferManager - retrieve files from the web
Gabber - Jabber client
gVid - change your X resolution
Seahorse - GPG frontend
Nova - astronomy app
The Gernel - Linux kernel configurator
MySQL Navigator - navigate a MySQL database
MixMagic - mixer
CORBA::ORBit - Perl bindings for ORBit
gts - GNOME task scheduler
Gmail - experimental vfolder-based mail system
gnome_dialup - control a dialup connection
KRunning - track running events (running as in exercise)
Solfege - ear training program
gxsm - 2D data acquisition 
LnxZip - frontend to archive utilities
MemoPanel - put a memo on the GNOME panel
EtherApe - network monitor, like EtherMan, but less evolved
NumExp - numeric methods, 2D plots
gno3dtet - tetris game
GNOME WebAds - maintain ad banners on your web site
GNOME WebNews - news database admin utility for web sites
GNOME PM - portfolio manager
DDUP applet - update a hostname in the dyndns.org nic database
Industrializer - creates percussion samples
PyBiff - extensible, scriptable biff applet
Everybuddy - universal instant messaging client
BINARS - music sequencer
CodeCommander - programming editor
Tenes Empanadas Graciela - Argentinian board game, similar to Risk
ScrudgeWare - GNOME-based Linux distribution
Pan - Usenet newsreader for GNOME
gnomerar - frontend for the rar archiver
GNOME character map - select and use high asciii characters
genSQL - generic SQL database UI
Math Literature - educational math app
Skill Literature - educational app
Ggradebook - gradebook app
gmessage+ - clone of xmessage for GNOME
Arianne RPG - massively multiplayer online RPG
gob - GTK+ object builder (macro language to write GtkObjects)
Grave - interface for Sensory Science RaveMP MP2000 Digital Media Player
xNetTools - clone of MacOS network tools
gvplay - lightweight video player
grio_applet - manage files on the Rio PMP300 portable MP3 player
1159 - electronic secretary
gnetview - GUI for network tasks
gbrctl - configure Linux ethernet bridging
GNOME ReadNews - nntp client
gcardinfo_applet - PCMCIA applet
gnome-utils - collection of small GNOME utilities

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