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GNOME Summary for 2001-08-05 - 2001-08-15

This is the GNOME Summary for 2001-08-05 - 2001-08-15
    
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Table of Contents
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1. GNOME Print gets TrueType support
2. Galeon Status Update
3. Why GNOME Hackers Should Care about Usability
4. Mozstreamer hits the street
5. Two more releases of Abiword available
6. Gaim and Galeon gets good reviews
7. JAVA-GNOME project makes a new relase
8. When the going gets tough Alan gets going
9. GNOME Summary information
10. Hacker Activity
12. New and Updated Software

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1. GNOME Print gets TrueType support
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Akira TAGOH of Red Hat Japan submitted a nice big patch to GNOME-print
this 
weekend which adds support for TrueType fonts under GNOME print.
Available is 
also a patch for Gnumeric. Hopefully this patch will make it into the
next 
gnome-print release. 

        
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gnome-print/2001-August/000766.html
        http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-print

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2. Galeon Status Update
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Not so long ago the GNOME Foundation board took the initiative to get
the 
developers of different projects to do status reports on their projects
from 
time to time in order to help improve project co-ordination and get
greater 
synergy-effects. The SashXB project was first out. Now Marco Pesenti
Gritti of 
the Galeon project follows up with a status report on the Galeon
project. Below 
you find the link to the Galeon report and the GNOME feature archive.
Also 
since I know you are going to ask about Ximian packages of Galeon, well
they 
are underway, in the meantime Peter Teichman has made some Ximian
preview 
packages for Red Hat 7.1 available. 

        http://developer.gnome.org/feature/current/
        http://primates.ximian.com/~peter/gconf/

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3. Why GNOME Hackers Should Care about Usability
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Seth Nickel, lead developer on the Useability task team, have writen an
article 
on why developers should care about useability. Interesting article
which well 
illustrates useability why useability issues are important. 

        http://developer.gnome.org/feature/archive/usability/

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4. Mozstreamer hits the street
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Steve Crouse made his code for Mozstreamer available this week.
Mozstreamer is 
a Mozilla plugin which is built on top of GStreamer. This means that
Linux and 
Mozilla finally gets a multimedia plugin that supports most of the
available 
video and audio formats in use on the web today (A list which got a
little 
longer today as Jérémy SIMON submited his new mikmod plugin for
gstreamer.) 
Thanks goes to OEone Corporation for letting Steve work on Mozstreamer
and 
GStreamer as part of his work for them. 

        http://mozstreamer.mozdev.net
        http://www.gstreamer.net

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5. Two more releases of Abiword available
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Since our last summary the Abiword team have done two more releases,
0.9.1 and 
0.9.2. The bug killing hunt in preparation for 1.0 continues. The goal
is to 
have a 1.0 release with no known segfault bugs, so please submit good
bug 
reports and test cases to help Abiword reach 1.0. Also in the cool
Abiword news 
department is the work done by OEone on embeding Abiword into Mozilla.
Below 
you find a link to the mail from Mike Potter of OEone which includes a
link to 
a screenshot showing this beauty. Links below to the mail from OEone and
to the 
Abiword homepage. 

        http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/August/0323.html
        http://www.abisource.com

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6. Gaim and Galeon gets good reviews
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Freeos.com had a review of the GAIM instant messaging application which
allows 
users to connect to the AOL Instant messenger service. The review
concludes 
that GAIM is even better than the original AOL client. Canada Computes
gives 
top score to Galeon in their Linux browser comparison, fun this is that
the 
major critisim of Galeon is how the GUI looks, guess the reviewer must
have 
missed that this is completly themeable in Galeon and with lots of
themes 
included, even one for CmdrTaco :). 

        http://www.freeos.com/articles/4362/
        http://www.canadacomputes.com/v3/story/1,1017,7178,00.html?tag=81&sb=79

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7. JAVA-GNOME project makes a new relase
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Jeffrey Morgan announced the 0.6.1 release of Java-GNOME. Java-GNOME is
a nice 
set of Java Bindings for GTK+ and GNOME. Jeffrey also promised that a
0.7.0 
release would be available soon which can be compiled using the new Gcj 
compiler into native code. 

        http://news.gnome.org/997878977/index_html
        http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net

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8. When the going gets tough Alan gets going
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What do you do when all the easy problems are uncovered and you need to
get at 
the hard ones? Well, if you are lucky you get Alan Cox to debug your 
application. The application that got his attention this time was
Nautilus. 
Alan posted a long mail with his findings something which lead to others
quickly producing patches to fix the problems Alan uncovered. Thanks
goes to 
Alan and the Nautilus hackers. Other cool news on the Nautilus front is
all the 
great work on Nautilus done by the Red Hat hackers. If you thought that
Red Hat 
was only for the server and not for the desktop I promise you that you
will 
change your mind when you see Red Hat 7.2, with the cool Nautilus system
integration being the icing on the cake. Below you find a link to Alans
initial 
mail to the Nautilus list. 

        http://lists.eazel.com/pipermail/nautilus-list/2001-August/004978.html

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9. GNOME Summary information
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The GNOME summary is being translated into Spanish, Hungarian and now
also 
French. Translations are usually available shortly after the release of
the 
summary in english. Since this summary covers the last two weeks the
first of 
the CVS stats cover the period from 4th to 11th august and the second
cover the 
period from the 11th to the 18th. 

        http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/
        http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/
        http://www.gynov.org/gnome-summary/

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10. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 224 evolution
 221 SashWDE
 102 SashMo
 92 gnome-core
 49 galeon
 40 gnumeric
 38 gtranslator
 34 libbonobo
 32 gimp
 32 gail
 29 gtkhtml
 29 mc
 28 gtk+
 25 gal
 25 gtkvts
 21 ORBit2
 19 gnome-control-center
 17 setup-tools-backends
 17 libgnomeui
 17 anjuta
[104 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 115 martin
 83 dkc
 70 tyeler
 60 chatham
 56 kmaraas
 47 michael
 44 kabalak
 41 ettore
 41 fejj
 33 ajshankar
 30 baddog
 30 darin
 29 atevstef
 25 proskin
 24 chyla
 22 jcorwin
 21 peterw
 21 mpeseng
 20 rodrigo
 20 rodo
[126 active hackers omitted]


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10. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 285 evolution
 99 galeon
 47 gnumeric
 46 gnome-utils
 45 gtkhtml
 42 mc
 39 gnome-core
 37 gtranslator
 26 dia
 24 nautilus
 23 ximian-setup-tools
 23 gtk+
 23 SashMo
 21 at-spi
 20 gconf
 20 gnome-xml
 19 gnome-docu
 18 gail
 18 libbonobo
 18 gtkvts
[109 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 69 kmaraas
 59 minmax
 53 martin
 52 michael
 45 kabalak
 38 proskin
 34 baddog
 34 ettore
 34 rodo
 33 darin
 32 mpeseng
 32 veillard
 31 fejj
 26 peterw
 25 jody
 24 linas
 22 jirka
 22 clahey
 22 cyrille
 21 federico
[121 active hackers omitted]


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12. New and Updated Software
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Dr. Genius  - Dr Genius is a geometry tool
Pan  - A newsreader, loosely based on Agent
Goats  - A post-it note applet for Gnome
G-CTB  - A basic accounting system
gtktalog  - Easily browse a CDROM database.
java-gnome  - Java-GNOME is a Java binding
gdm  - GNOME Display Manager.
rubrica  - Addressbook application
gramps  - A GNOME/Python based genealogy program.
pavuk  - Pavuk is recursive WWW grabber
Guikachu  - Graphical editing PalmOS resource files
gnome-db  - Database access for GNOME applications
Garden  - IRC client for GNU/Linux
Gnucash  - GNU personal finance manager.
PrintDuplex  - A Gnome utility for manual duplex printing
EtherApe  - A network monitor modeled after etherman
Anjuta  - A very versatile IDE for C and C++ in Linux.
Solfege  - GNU Solfege is an eartraining program for GNOME.
vlc  - (VideoLAN Client) is a DVD and MPEG player for Gnome or Gtk+.
Gnome--  - A powerful C++ binding for the GNOME libraries.
gtk--  - A C++ wrapper for GTK+.
Balsa  - An email client for GNOME.
chbg  - Simple manager of desktop background.
gsmbscanner  - Small GTK+ based NetBIOS scanner program
Gnome CD Master  - All you need to copy, create and edit Audio CDs.
devhelp  - A developers help program.
glame  - Targeted to be the GIMP for audio processing.
XFce  - A lightweight desktop environment for various UNIX systems
protagonist  - aims to provide an efficient 3-tier application server

For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: 
http://www.gnome.org/applist/listrecent.php3
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