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GNOME SUMMARY November 30, 2003 - December 06, 2003

Sorry this came out late. :/

This is the GNOME Summary for 2003-11-30 - 2003-12-06
    
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Table of Contents
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1. Gnome Summary News
2. Java Desktop System reviewed
3. Evolution Updates
4. MultiSync version 0.81 released
5. Planner 0.11 released
6. Gnumeric 1.2.2 released
7. Bangalore Update
8. OSNews: Get to Know GnomeMeeting
9. Gnome-Marketing kicks off two more regions: Gnome-Argentina and Gnome-Iran
10. Automount of USB storage
11. HAL update and screenshots
12. Yelp Overhauled
13. libburn added to freedesktop
14. Imminent Release of Dashboard
15. New version of Mono released
16. Patch to implement 'Switch User' in GNOME Panel
17. Mime proposal for GNOME
18. Gnome keyring manager
19. Murray Cumming is organizing a GNOME bindings release for GNOME 2.6!
20. GNOME Themes extras 0.5 released
21. Translation Stats
22. Hacker Activity
23. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
24. New and Updated Software

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1. Gnome Summary News
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Just a couple of notes on whats going on with GNOME summary. First off, I've 
added a couple of people who were willing to help out with the summaries. I'd 
love to have more. The larger the group the grander the possibilities! 
I've also decided that we will also help cover some of the Freedesktop news as 
they are starting to bind more tightly with the GNOME desktop. Integration 
between operating system and desktop by the use of standards will be one of the 
key advancements in the Free Software Desktop. So look for increased coverage 
of freedesktop components like HAL and xserver. 


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2. Java Desktop System reviewed
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Java Desktop System is a product in which Sun Microsystems Inc. has combined 
Linux, Mozilla, GNOME and StarOffice-creating a credible challenger to 
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows and Office on the corporate desktop. 
Eweek and OSNews have published reviews of the Java GNOME Desktop (code named 
Mad Hatter). 

        http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1399984,00.asp
        http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5286

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3. Evolution Updates
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There has been a positive response to the bounty hunt announcement, and patches 
are coming in fast for Evolution. The first patch to come in was the set 
wallpaper from displayed images one. More bounty related patchworking is in 
progress. 
Ross Burton has announced the release of Contact Lookup Applet 0.2, an applet 
for your panel which will lookup contacts in an evolution-data-server 
addressbook you specify. It requires Evolution and evolution-data-server HEAD 
from CVS. 
The Evolution Certificate Viewer is nearly 100% complete, with a cool details 
tab displaying a tree view of the ASN1 structure of the certificate. 

        http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000093.html
        
http://www.burtonini.com/cgi/pyblosxom.cgi/computers/contact-lookup-applet-20031
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        http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000094.html

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4. MultiSync version 0.81 released
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Palm and LDAP support is new with this release. 
MultiSync allows you to synchronize Evolution, mobile phones (IrMC, SyncML), 
Opie/Zaurus devices, PocketPC devices, Palm devices and LDAP directories. 

        http://multisync.sourceforge.net/releases/release_notes_081.shtml

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5. Planner 0.11 released
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Planner is the project management application formerly known as MrProject. 

        http://planner.imendio.org/

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6. Gnumeric 1.2.2 released
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This release features "numerous bug fixes, polish, polish, and more polish." 
Gnumeric is GNOME based spreadsheet application, intended to be a drop in 
replacement for proprietary spreadsheets. 

        http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/gnumeric-1.2.2.html

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7. Bangalore Update
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Miguel de Icaza, co-founder of Ximian, gave a presentation regarding the 
progress of Mono, a free software implementation of the C#/.Net development 
framework, at the Bangalore Open Source conference. Mono comprises a compiler, 
runtime, and a set of class libraries, including GTK#, the .Net bindings for 
the GNOME platform. Miguel, together with Nat Friedman, co-founder of Ximian, 
also gave several talks on the Linux desktop. Students and developers in 
attendance expressed great interest in contributing to the free software world. 
Gnome Bangalore was also launched, and Naba Kumar of Anjuta fame had a booth 
all to himself to demo Anjuta and a locally built PDA. Overall, it was an 
exciting conference for all who attended. 

        http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/activity-log.php

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8. OSNews: Get to Know GnomeMeeting
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OSNews reviews one of GNOME's coolest applications. Some people say that VOIP 
is the wave of the future. If so, GNOME's future is looking bright, thanks to 
GnomeMeeting and its maintainer Damien Sandras. 

        http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5280
        http://www.gnomemeeting.org

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9. Gnome-Marketing kicks off two more regions: Gnome-Argentina and Gnome-Iran
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We have two new marketing team lists created this week. gnome-ar-list and 
gnome-ir-list will be the lists to promote GNOME at those respective countries. 
Support GNOME in your local communities and countries! 


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10. Automount of USB storage
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Bastien Nocera (a.k.a. hadess), maintainer of GNOME's media player Totem, has 
done some hacking that will allow the automatic mounting of a USB device and 
have it show up as a mount on your GNOME desktop. Bastien made two patches 
against kudzu and magicdev cvs. Note that the new functionality will also 
require that you install D-BUS, from freedesktop.org. 

        http://www.hadess.net/files/patches/kudzu-automount/mail.txt
        http://www.hadess.net/files/patches/kudzu-automount
        http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus

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11. HAL update and screenshots
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Almost all of the planned features of the 0.2 version of HAL are implemented 
along with a few other nifty features like monitoring the link status of 
ethernet devices and the mount point of block devices. Patches, comments, and 
bug reports are welcome. Please use the xdg-list freedesktop org mailing list. 

        http://freedesktop.org/~david/hal-with-caps-and-category.png
        http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal
        http://www.freedesktop.org
        http://freedesktop.org/Software/HalBuildInstructions

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12. Yelp Overhauled
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 shaunm writes "Yelp 2.5.0 features a new transformation system which is 
simpler to work with and produces faster transformations. Additionally, the 
infastructure is in place for keyword searches of all installed documentation, 
and this should be ready in the 2.6 timeframe. Please pardon our mess during 
reconstruction. There's really a lot going on under the hood." 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2003-December/msg00008.html
        http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/yelp/2.5/

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13. libburn added to freedesktop
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A new library to enable cd burning was added to the freedesktop umbrella. 
Libburn will allow software projects to easily create burning applications. 

        http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/burn
        http://www.freedesktop.org

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14. Imminent Release of Dashboard
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Nat sends out mail to dashboard-hackers of a possible release of dashboard. 
There are a number of things that Nat would like to see happen before the 
release. 
The dashboard is a piece of software which performs a continous, automatic 
search of your personal information space to show you things in your life that 
are related to whatever you happen to be doing with your computer at the time. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dashboard-hackers/2003-December/msg00004.html
        http://www.nat.org/dashboard/
        http://www.nat.org/dashboard/rewrite.png

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15. New version of Mono released
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Mono 0.29, MonoDoc 0.8, XSP 0.8 and mod_mono 0.6 has been released. In addition 
there is a roadmap to the 1.0 release also available. 
Mono is Novell's open source implementation of the .NET Development Framework. 
Mono includes a compiler, tuntime, and a set of class libraries. 

        http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.29.html
        http://www.go-mono.com/
        http://www.go-mono.com/mono-roadmap.html

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16. Patch to implement 'Switch User' in GNOME Panel
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Rodrigo Moya has implemented in GNOME this popular feature, which allows one to 
switch users without logging out. To try the Switch User feature, you will need 
to patch against gnome-panel HEAD. Rodrigo's patch has generated interesting 
discussions regarding the user interface considerations involved in 
implementing this feature. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-December/msg00077.html

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17. Mime proposal for GNOME
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GNOME, KDE, and the ROX desktop have worked together at freedesktop.org to come 
up with a common, unified system for handling MIME types, which are the 
associations between particular file formats and the applications automatically 
picked to view the documents with those formats. The GNOME hackers are busy 
implementing the new specification for Nautilus before the API freeze for GNOME 
2.6. There has been quite a bit of discussion on the desktop-devel mailing list 
regarding the new system. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-December/msg00055.html

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18. Gnome keyring manager
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Alex Larsson, co-captain of Nautilus, posted a message explaining his new 
authentication mechanism, which implements safe password storage to 
authenticate various services, including samba and ssh. Gnome-vfs now makes use 
of gnome-keyring for better password management! Gnome-keyring is available 
from the GNOME cvs server in the gnome-keyring module. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-November/msg00555.html

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19. Murray Cumming is organizing a GNOME bindings release for GNOME 2.6!
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Murray Cumming, maintainer of the superb C++ bindings for the GNOME platform, 
is organizing a GNOME language bindings release to go out with the upcoming 
GNOME 2.6. For all those people who like other languages than C and say that 
GNOME should "bless" language bindings for developer use, Murray is the answer 
to your prayers. Help him out and make the GNOME language bindings release a 
success! 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/language-bindings/2003-November/msg00001.html
        http://www.gtkmm.org/

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20. GNOME Themes extras 0.5 released
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Uraeus (Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller) has made a new release. With new 
and updated icons on serveral of the themes. 

        http://www.linuxrising.com/files/freshnuvola.png

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21. Translation Stats
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These are this weeks translation stats. Once I figure out xsl and dtd I'll be 
able to put this in properly. Thanks for your patience 

        http://stara.kvota.net/sri/stats26.php?end=2003-12-07&start=2003-11-30

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24. New and Updated Software
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rubrica  - address book, pim
Atomix  - A mind game about atoms and molecules.
Pybliographer  - Bibliography manager
BananaPos  - Point Of Sale
glunarclock  - moon phase clock applet
screem  - Web Site / HTML Editor
Gnome Drinking Game  - Stupid drinking game program.
OpenHacha  - OpenHacha is a "free as in freedom" implementation for GNU/Linux 
of the propietary-and-only-for-MS-Windows program Hacha. OpenHacha is based on 
the libhacha.cs library, a C# implementation of the Hacha program features, 
developed by the Sierra project.
GTK+ OpenGL Toolkit  - GTK+ OpenGL Toolkit
Sodipodi  - Vector drawing program
gLabels  - gLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels and business 
cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to work with various 
laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that you``ll find at most 
office supply stores.

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

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23. 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: 10465 (In the last week: New: 531, Resolved: 379, Difference: 
+152)

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

  nautilus: 762 (In the last week: New: 49, Resolved: 55, Difference: -6)
  gtk+: 652 (In the last week: New: 19, Resolved: 14, Difference: +5)
  control-center: 252 (In the last week: New: 15, Resolved: 4, Difference: +11)
  gnome-vfs: 240 (In the last week: New: 7, Resolved: 8, Difference: -1)
  GnuCash: 213 (In the last week: New: 6, Resolved: 0, Difference: +6)
  gnome-panel: 211 (In the last week: New: 45, Resolved: 22, Difference: +23)
  gnome-applets: 175 (In the last week: New: 30, Resolved: 11, Difference: +19)
  galeon: 162 (In the last week: New: 27, Resolved: 16, Difference: +11)
  GIMP: 158 (In the last week: New: 16, Resolved: 16, Difference: 0)
  dia: 150 (In the last week: New: 4, Resolved: 0, Difference: +4)
  balsa: 128 (In the last week: New: 3, Resolved: 0, Difference: +3)
  epiphany: 118 (In the last week: New: 20, Resolved: 16, Difference: +4)
  sawfish: 117 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0)
  metacity: 114 (In the last week: New: 7, Resolved: 5, Difference: +2)
  gnome-media: 111 (In the last week: New: 7, Resolved: 4, Difference: +3)
  
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: 
  
  martin wehner epost de: 21 bugs closed.
  vincent vuntz net: 17 bugs closed.
  ds schleef org: 16 bugs closed.
  padraig obriain sun com: 13 bugs closed.
  shaunm gnome org: 12 bugs closed.
  kfv101 psu edu: 11 bugs closed.
  bmm80 ifrance com: 11 bugs closed.
  seb128 debian org: 11 bugs closed.
  sven gimp org: 11 bugs closed.
  hadess hadess net: 10 bugs closed.
  aes gnome org: 10 bugs closed.
  chpe+gnomebugz stud uni-saarland de: 10 bugs closed.
  bill haneman sun com: 10 bugs closed.
  maclas gmx de: 9 bugs closed.
  heath pointedstick net: 9 bugs closed.
  
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22. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 160 evolution
 62 gimp
 47 epiphany
 34 gnumeric
 33 evolution-data-server
 28 galeon
 27 yelp
 25 gnome-commander
 24 gnucash
 23 gnome-panel
 23 gimp-web-devel
 22 gtk+
 20 marlin
 20 gnomeweb-wml
 19 beast
 16 gok
 16 gnome-control-center
 15 rhythmbox
 15 sodipodi
 15 sun-patches
[162 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 77 adrighem
 44 fejj
 43 neo
 40 dooteo
 39 rodrigo
 35 badaa
 33 chpe
 30 ettore
 29 mitch
 29 jpr
 28 murrayc
 27 jpekka
 27 danilo
 23 dnloreto
 23 mitr
 22 hampton (gnucash)
 22 alexl
 21 rodo
 21 shaunm
 19 iain
[155 active hackers omitted]


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