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GNOME Summary 2003-11-16 - 2003-11-22

This is the GNOME Summary for 2003-11-16 - 2003-11-22
    
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Table of Contents
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1. Don't Blame The Xserver!
2. Various Evolution Treats
3. Rhythmbox 0.6.1 and incoming developments
4. Sun announces huge number of GNOME desktop deployments
5. OpenOffice 2.0 Concept Overview and GNOME
6. Medusa HEAD getting usable
7. Red Carpet 2.2 and Open Carpet 0.1 released
8. Desktop Integration Bounty Hunt
9. Intro slides from Brooklyn GNOME Summit
10. MLview 0.6.1 is out
11. GtkADA 2.2.1, GNAT Programming System 1.4.0 Released
12. Passepartout 0.3 released
13. ASPL Fact and AF Architecture version ML4 released
14. BloGTK 0.8-5 Released
15. Agata Report v5 Beta 004
16. Gnucash stable version 1.8.8
17. Gossip 0.6 released
18. Dasher 3.2.0 Released
19. Java-Gnome 0.8.1 released

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1. Don't Blame The Xserver!
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Havoc has a patch out that will allow system monitor to indicate how much 
memory an application is using in the X server. 

        http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127120
        http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/random/gsm-x-server-memory.png

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2. Various Evolution Treats
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Some bits on Evolution: 
Evolution has a new folder tree that will improve speed and
efficiency.  Nat has a short blurb on what to expect for Evolution
2.0. Which include such things as a split of Evolutions backend,
Full HIG compliance, S/MIME support, and viewing calendars stored
on the web.

        http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000088.html
        http://www.nat.org/2003/november/

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3. Rhythmbox 0.6.1 and incoming developments
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Colin Walters and RB hackers have released Rhythmbox 0.6.1. This
is a bug fixes version with minor new features.

Rhythmbox is an iTunes clone that supports large music lists,
and iradio/streaming.

        http://www.rhythmbox.org/news.html

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4. Sun announces huge number of GNOME desktop deployments
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Sun has signed a deal with a consortium of Chinese companies that
will allow Sun to deploy 500,000 to a million desktops in 2004.

        http://news.com.com/2100-7340-5108158.html?tag=nl

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5. OpenOffice 2.0 Concept Overview and GNOME
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A document put out by the open office team where a fair portion of
it discusses GNOME integration.

        http://tools.openoffice.org/releases/q-concept.html

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6. Medusa HEAD getting usable
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Curtis Hovey contributor of Medusa has been hard at work committing
rudimentary GUI for Medusa. There is a small hope that it might get
into Nautilus 2.5 One note, building Medusa from HEAD might break
your Nautilus builds

Medusa is an indexing and search tool for locating your files
and data.

        http://members.cox.net/sinzui/blog/medusa/2003-11-20.html

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7. Red Carpet 2.2 and Open Carpet 0.1 released
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The Red Carpet Daemon (rcd) is a system daemon which provides users
access to the underlying packaging database. Through an XML-RPC
interface, clients can view the database, and with sufficient
permissions install, remove, and upgrade packages. The daemon also
provides a very powerful dependency resolver which removes the
headaches of software management.

Rug is the command-line client interface to rcd. With it you can
browse software through channels, install and remove packages,
and get package information. It also includes "power features"
like package history, locks for preventing certain updates, and
package rollback.

Red Carpet is a GTK-based graphical client which uses the daemon
to provide a friendly interface for managing software.

Open Carpet is a set of tools to create package metadata so that
anyone with a web page and some packages can set up a Red Carpet
service.

        http://open-carpet.org/
        http://developer.ximian.com/projects/source

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8. Desktop Integration Bounty Hunt
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GNOME foundation is announcing the launch of the first ever open
source desktop integration bounty hunt. The aim of the contest
is to recruit new developers and to more tightly integrate the
various projects that make up the desktop into a more coherent,
and complete user experience.

The contest consists of a number of small, concrete projects, each
of which has a cash bounty associated with it. Complete the hack,
enter the contest, and collect a prize.

People participating in the contest will be hanging out on the
#bounties channel on irc.gimp.org.

        http://www.gnome.org/bounties
        http://www.gnome.org/bounties#categories

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9. Intro slides from Brooklyn GNOME Summit
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Nat has put up his slides for the intro of the Brooklyn GNOME summit

        http://nat.org/brooklyn-gnome-summit

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10. MLview 0.6.1 is out
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The new version is out with updated translations, refactored
editing views, new attribute and namespace editors in gtk2 and a
new GNOME icon.

MlView is a generic XML editor for GNOME. It provides a tree
oriented XML editing view and supports edition with or without DTD
based validation.

        
http://www.freespiders.org/projects/gmlview/release-notes/mlview-0-6-1.html
        http://www.freespiders.org/projects/gmlview/
        http://www.freespiders.org/projects/gmlview/screenshots/index.html

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11. GtkADA 2.2.1, GNAT Programming System 1.4.0 Released
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GtkAda is an Ada graphical toolkit based on GTK+ 2.2. It allows
you to develop graphical applications in Ada using GTK+ and
Gnome. Based on this toolkit, GPS was released. GPS is a free
software multi-platform and multi-language IDE. It provides a
wide range of tools integrated together, and features particularly
powerful source navigation capabilities. GPS also integrates GVD,
the GNU Visual Debugger, and replaces it. Screenshots included at
its web page."

        http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda/
        http://libre.act-europe.fr/gps/

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12. Passepartout 0.3 released
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New features include support or multiple views, XSLT parameter
handling, preview function in import dialog box, renaming of frames
among bug fixes and enhancements.

Passepartout is an Open Source Desktop Publishing application for the
X Windows environment. The goal of this project is to create a system
capable of producing pre-press material of professional quality, but
also to be a useful tool for any enthusiast with access to a printer.

        http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/rel03
        http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/
        http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/screenshots.html

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13. ASPL Fact and AF Architecture version ML4 released
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The main new feature in this development milestone is the
independent definition of the AF Architecture: a modular n-tier
component architecture specifically designed for business-managing
application design.

ASPL Fact is a new invoicing system for GNU/Linux (although it should
compile and work on every platform where glib is available). It's
based on AF Architecture, and it's licensed under the GNU/General
Public License.

        http://fact.aspl.es

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14. BloGTK 0.8-5 Released
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BloGTK 0.8.5 adds support for HTTP proxies 

BloGTK is a GNOME based weblog client 

        http://blogtk.sourceforge.net/
        http://blogtk.sourceforge.net/screens.html

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15. Agata Report v5 Beta 004
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Agata Report is a cross-platform database reporting tool with graph
generation and a query tool like Crystal Reports that allows you
to get data from a variety of databases and export that data to a
variety of formats through its graphical interface.

        http://www.agata.org.br/news.php
        http://www.agata.org.br/screenshots.php

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16. Gnucash stable version 1.8.8
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The Gnucash team has released version 1.8.8 of the premier GNOME
financial software. Added some account support for German businesses,
improvements in HBCI and translations to name a few

Gnucash is a GNOME based financial package similar to Quicken 

        http://www.gnucash.org

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17. Gossip 0.6 released
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Gossip 0.6 features a new contact list, conversation loggings,
grouped chat windows, and presence setting

Gossip has released freshly baked RPMS 

Gossip is an instant messaging client for GNOME with an easy-to-use
interface, providing users of the GNOME Desktop with a friendly
way to keep in touch with their friends.

        http://gossip.imendio.org/hackerlog/archives/000004.html
        http://gossip.imendio.org/hackerlog/

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18. Dasher 3.2.0 Released
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The first stable version of Dasher has been released, aimed at the
GNOME 2.4/2.5 desktops. New features includes integration with GNOME
accessibility framework and gnome-speech, and ability to enter text
directly into other applications

Dasher is a predictive text entry application wherever a a fullsize
keyboard cannot be used. For example palmtop computers and PDAs.

        http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
        http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/WhatsNew.html

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19. Java-Gnome 0.8.1 released
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Java-Gnome 0.8.1 with full support of GTK/GNOME2 libraries, bug
fixes, and performance enhancement adding to up to a major milestone
for the Java-Gnome project

        http://java-gnome.sf.net/


CVS, Bug tracking and all the other goodies will be back next week. I wasn't 
able to get all of that in order. Thanks 

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