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GNOME Summary - 2002-04-23 - 2002-04-28

This is the GNOME Summary for 2002-04-23 - 2002-04-28
    
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Table of Contents
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1. When will GNOME 2 be out?
2. Preferences/Control Panel reorganisation
3. GNOME 2.0 Screenshots
4. Easy Bugs to Fix
5. Ximian Setup Tools
6. Glade, the frontier extends
7. Abiword works in Evolution
8. Second Linux Accessibility Conference correction
9. Translated GNOME summaries
10. Hacker Activity
11. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
12. New and Updated Software

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1. When will GNOME 2 be out?
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So GNOME 2.0 has been stabilising for 6 months, when is it going to be
released? While a seemingly innocent question it managed to start a long email
thread. The central issue is between those who want to release 'when it is
ready' and those who want to release 'early and often'. In the back of
everyones minds is the reputation GNOME got from the 1.0 release which was
very unstable. The consensus seems to be that it will be delayed again, but
not too much. What's for sure is that the initial release will have lots of
benefits, but some drawbacks as well and there will be aspects that are
regressions from the 1.4.X series. 

http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/schedule/
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-April/msg00251.html
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-April/msg00291.html

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2. Preferences/Control Panel reorganisation
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The variety of options and buttons to twiddle in GNOME has always been
amazing.  There's a conflict between what hackers want to use, and the users
they are coding for who just want it to work. Much of the GNOME 2.0 HIG work
focuses on removing extraneous options and trying to make GNOME feel more like
an integrated environment. Anne Marie Dirks kicked off an interesting thread
on where the future may lie. One of the charges against Free Software recently
is that it cannot produce good UI, I'm not sure if that is true but as this
thread shows a lot of effort is put into doing the best job possible. 

        
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-April/msg00524.html

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3. GNOME 2.0 Screenshots
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We have gotten to a point in the GNOME 2 beta cycles where most of the 
developer community is using it as their day to day desktop. It has become very 
stable and many apps are starting to become availale in GNOME 2.0 versions. So 
to let you get a closer look on the status of GNOME 2.0 here are some 
screenshots. 

http://fredda.2good.nu/images/Clean-Ice-latest.png
http://www.gnome.org/~gman/GNOME2-apps.png
http://gnome.or.kr/gallery/view_photo.php?full=1&set_albumName=screenshots&id=aa
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http://joshuaeichorn.com/screenshots/gnome2/gnome2_my_desktop.jpg
http://hlp.sourceforge.net/GNOME2/GNOME2-MS-fonts-Nautilus-Customisation.png

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4. Easy Bugs to Fix
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GNOME 2.0 will definitely be out faster if everyone helps fix bugs. Bug killing 
can make you famous as Luis Villas list of issues cleared from Beta 3 to Beta 4 
shows. So if you'd like to win friends and influence people bug fixing is the 
place to be. Luis regularly emails through lists of bugs that are showstoppers 
for the release, most are hard to fix. However, he's also put together a list 
of far easier bugs to fix where everyone can join in and cut their teeth on 
bug-hunting. If you're looking for a place to get help then the gnome-love list 
of gnome-bugsquad are a good start, and there's also a list of useful 
resources. 

http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-April/msg00298.html
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-April/msg00302.html
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers-readonly/2002-April/msg00304.html
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-April/msg00212.html

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5. Ximian Setup Tools
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Ximian Setup Tools are a great way to do some basic administration tasks on a 
Unix machine. As a bonus to the user they enable one set of tools to be used 
across a variety of distributions. While the long term aim of the team has been 
to get them into core GNOME it has always created some conflict. For 
distributiors their unique admin panels are a differentiator so having a single 
system is less attractive. Chema Celoria emailed where he things XST is going. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-December/msg00020.html
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/setup-tool-hackers/2002-April/000695.htm
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6. Glade, the frontier extends
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A new patch was released to the glade-devel list porting it to Microsoft 
Windows. It still needs approval but this patch could do a lot to help this 
poor, under developed legacy platform get some of the modern software that's 
part of GNOME. I certainly hope more people using Windows could be lucky enough 
to use GNOME full time. 

        
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/glade-devel/2002-April/000807.html

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7. Abiword works in Evolution
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Martin Sevior reported to the Abiword-dev lists that he's got Abiword working 
in Evolution. He also sent along a nice screenshot to prove the point. This is 
a neat example of the component model and the Bonobo system. So shortly we 
should all be able to read word processing documents straight in email - what 
will they come up with next, HTML email! 

        http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/May/0044.html
        http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~msevior/abiword/evolution-abi2.png

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8. Second Linux Accessibility Conference correction
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JP Schnapper-Casteras kindly pointed out to us that our item on the Second Unix 
Accessibility Conference was slightly wrong. The conference was actually called 
the Second Linux Accessibility Conference. Apologies if we caused any 
confusion. 


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9. Translated GNOME summaries
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Woo-Kyoung Noh tells us that the GTP Korean team has started translating the 
GNOME Summary. The number of translations just gets better every week! We now 
have French, Spanish, Hungarian and Korean - all the links below. 

        http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4
        http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/
        http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/
        http://developer.gnome.or.kr/news/

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

Most active modules:
 92 gnome-2.0-test-specs
 76 gnome-pim
 56 gnumeric
 54 gtk+
 53 gtkmm-root
 52 evolution
 47 gnome-control-center
 46 nautilus
 43 gnome-applets
 41 gnomemm
 33 gnucash
 32 monkey-sound
 29 gtkhtml
 28 gnome-utils
 28 vte
 27 balsa
 27 galeon
 24 gal
 24 gnome-games
 22 gdm2
[134 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 93 hegde
 83 minmax
 81 murrayc
 78 srittau
 61 kmaraas
 60 jody
 45 fejj
 39 baddog
 34 cwryu
 31 daniel
 28 andersca
 27 jbaayen
 26 clahey
 25 nalin
 24 gman
 24 chyla
 24 hampton (gnucash)
 23 dnloreto
 23 hallski
 22 alexl
[129 active hackers omitted]


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11. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
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This information is from http://bugzilla.gnome.org, which hosts bug and feature 
reports for most of the Gnome modules. If you would like to join the bug hunt, 
subscribe to the gnome-bugsquad mailing list.

Currently open: 7003 (In the last week: New: 786, Resolved: 1026, Difference: 
-240)

Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests): 

  nautilus: 1031 (In the last week: New: 50, Resolved: 93, Difference: -43)
  gtk+: 494 (In the last week: New: 45, Resolved: 38, Difference: +7)
  gnome-core: 292 (In the last week: New: 94, Resolved: 64, Difference: +30)
  gnome-vfs: 256 (In the last week: New: 6, Resolved: 6, Difference: 0)
  gnome-applets: 242 (In the last week: New: 23, Resolved: 30, Difference: -7)
  galeon: 212 (In the last week: New: 129, Resolved: 100, Difference: +29)
  control-center: 206 (In the last week: New: 32, Resolved: 25, Difference: +7)
  GIMP: 193 (In the last week: New: 8, Resolved: 6, Difference: +2)
  sawfish: 152 (In the last week: New: 10, Resolved: 59, Difference: -49)
  medusa: 126 (In the last week: New: 1, Resolved: 0, Difference: +1)
  gnome-panel: 118 (In the last week: New: 66, Resolved: 25, Difference: +41)
  balsa: 114 (In the last week: New: 18, Resolved: 148, Difference: -130)
  gnome-utils: 109 (In the last week: New: 11, Resolved: 22, Difference: -11)
  gnome-pilot: 103 (In the last week: New: 12, Resolved: 39, Difference: -27)
  dia: 86 (In the last week: New: 7, Resolved: 6, Difference: +1)
  
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: 
  
  pawsa theochem kth se: 148 bugs closed.
  Uraeus linuxrising org: 121 bugs closed.
  yaneti declera com: 95 bugs closed.
  jsh pixelslut com: 56 bugs closed.
  heath pointedstick net: 54 bugs closed.
  kmaraas gnome org: 39 bugs closed.
  louie ximian com: 38 bugs closed.
  michael technologyreview org: 33 bugs closed.
  charles rebelbase com: 29 bugs closed.
  bordoley msu edu: 28 bugs closed.
  jody gnome org: 23 bugs closed.
  maclas gmx de: 22 bugs closed.
  jpr ximian com: 22 bugs closed.
  andersca gnu org: 22 bugs closed.
  glynn foster sun com: 19 bugs closed.
  
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12. New and Updated Software
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BananaPos  - Point Of Sale
GCronTime2  - planner
lahelper  - LaTeX Command Helper
Elysium Download  - Download Manager for GNOME
gtkmm2  - GTK+ C++ binding
gnome-chord  - guitar chord/scale database/renderer
GCronTime2  - planner
GtkMathView  - MathML Rendering Engine
GNOME Terminal  - terminal console app
gIcon, the Nikon F90x Camera Manager  - Management Software for the Nikon F90X
Balsa  - Gnome Mail Client
Balsa  - Gnome Mail Client
Greenwich  - Whois client for GNOME
orbit-tools  - orbit tools package
Enlightened Sound Daemon  - sound server
Gewels  - Gnome version of Jewels with multiplayer deadmatch mode.
polyXmass  - Polymer mass spectrometry framework
Gabedit  - GUI for Molpro2000 and Gaussian98
CD-Rom Control  - Tcl/Tk panel for controlling cd/dvd
gmmusic  - A Gnomified music collection database, based on PostgreSQL.It 
maintains your +entire music collection, consisting oftapes, CDs, LPs, Singles 
and even Minidiscs. freedb+supportis also included as well as the ability to 
print nice CD-ROMtrays and inv
gcompris  - education games canvas kids children
Elysium Download  - Download Manager for GNOME

For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: 
http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php

Not so much news this week but a general background noise of heavy activity. 
The community continues to grow, Tim Ney tells us that GUADEC actually had 400 
hackers not 300. Many of our readers will not be interested in the long thread 
on bug 76293 that took place this week. But with all this hacking from so many 
people taking place it won't be long until we'll all be using the results! 
Steve George 
gnome-summary gnome org
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