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Gnome Summary February 8 to February 14

This is the GNOME Summary for 2004-02-08 - 2004-02-14
    
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Table of Contents
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1. GNOME Development Release 2.5.4
2. Release Update/Schedule Slip
3. List of GNOME Conferences
4. Appreciating the polish of GNOME
5. Evolution 1.5 Updates
6. BlueFOAF and Dashboard
7. You're GNOME Experience is valuable to us!
8. Writing Gnome Applets using Python Tutorial
9. Gcalctool - The Next Generation
10. GtkFileChooserDialog now sets its size correctly
11. GNOME Presentation Materials
12. GNOME Developer Platform API Docs Updated
13. GNOME file sharing
14. Freedesktop.org Platform Mailing List
15. Inkscape 0.37 Release
16. Hacker Activity
17. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
18. New and Updated Software

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1. GNOME Development Release 2.5.4
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Jeff has unleashed the latest development release of GNOME. Please help
test 
and more importantly, file bugs against this release. Remember this is
a 
development release of GNOME and is not considered to be stable. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-February/
msg00337.html

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2. Release Update/Schedule Slip
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Jeff Waugh, release coordinator for the GNOME releases gives us an
update on 
the current GNOME release schedule. The schedule has been updated to
take into 
account a two week slip in our release schedule due to a less than
stellar test 
release dependability and waiting on a stable release of GTK+. Owen and
the 
GTK+ team will be meeting next week to discuss the GTK+ schedule and the
GNOME 
release schedule - which will be adapted to accommodate whatever plans
become 
known from that meeting. 
Jeff states besides that, things are looking pretty solid, and the bug
squad 
team has been doing a damn good job of applying bug spray to GNOME bugs.
Jeff 
also notes that none of the freeze dates have changed due to the slip. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-February/
msg00322.html

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3. List of GNOME Conferences
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Malcolm Tredinnick, a GNOME Foundation Board Member has been maintaining
a list 
of conferences that would be ideal to have GNOME represented at. Malcolm
is 
interested in getting a complete list of conferences. So if you have a 
conference that you think GNOME should be represented at. Please
contact 
Malcolm directly and send in your suggestion. 
In the future there will be a place at www.gnome.org that we can place
all of 
the conference listings that will have or need GNOME representatives.
You're 
input will help make the list more accurate. 

        http://www.gnome.org/~malcolm/conferences.html
        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-February/msg00014.
html

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4. Appreciating the polish of GNOME
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One of the big plus points of GNOME is that a lot of attention is paid
to even 
the most minute detail, resulting in a highly polished and integrated
system. 
Steven Garrity takes a look at some of the small "GUI perks" of GNOME,
and 
points out some of the areas where GNOME goes beyond Windows XP or Mac
OS X in 
terms of polish and overall integration. 

        http://www.actsofvolition.com/archives/2004/february/
gettingtoknow

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5. Evolution 1.5 Updates
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Evolution 1.5 now properly displays what takes place while you drag
folders, 
messages and other things around - and it looks really nifty. 
There have been other updates in Evolution too especially in the
documentation 
section and mailer part, where there has been a lot of bug fixes. Use
the 
version from CVS if you are facing stability issues with version 1.5.3. 

        http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000145.html
        http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000147.html

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6. BlueFOAF and Dashboard
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Edd Dumbill recently hacked BlueFOAF to talk to Dashboard. BlueFOAF
discovers 
the people nearby, parses the FOAF information from them for useful
stuff and 
sends it to Dashboard. 

        http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/2004/2/11#21:39

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7. You're GNOME Experience is valuable to us!
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Do you use GNOME in your daily activities? At work? At home? Have you
had the 
experience of having somebody else look at your nice GNOME desktop and
ask 
about it? If so, and you would like to share your experiences, please
write to 
us. 
We are trying to collect stories and testimonials from everyday GNOME
users 
that will help to encourage our developers, documenters, testers and
artists. 
These can also be useful in encouraging wider adoption of GNOME -
people 
generally will use what others are using. 
Contributions can be attributed to the author or anonymous. If you don't
mind 
them being used for other publicity purposes, please let us know that
too. We 
will publish all reasonable submissions over time in the weekly GNOME 
summaries. 
Please send your GNOME success stories to gnome-summary gnome org  
Please note, that your submissions will be tagged with the Creative
Commons 
License by default. The stories will be displayed on GNOME Summary on a 
week-to-week basis. 


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8. Writing Gnome Applets using Python Tutorial
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Arturo Gonzalez has written a first draft of "GNOME aplets with Python 
Tutorial" is available. This is a great way of using Python to create
some 
quick applets to do any number of things. If you have any comments,
criticisms, 
and features regarding the tutorial, please contact Arturo. 

        http://www.ugr.es/~arturogf/applets/
        http://www.ugr.es/~arturogf/applets/python-applets.xml
        http://pygtk.org

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9. Gcalctool - The Next Generation
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Gcalctool has been receiving a lot of love from Sami Pietila as of late.
He's 
been working on improving Gcalctool by fixing some of it's limitations.
Namely, 
he's been working on handling arithmetic operator precedence, adding
expression 
parsing, and better handling of incorrect syntax of user input.
Eventually this 
will lead to Gcalctool being able to use reverse polish notation (RPN).
These 
are features that users have been requesting and now Sami is making them
into a 
reality! 
Gcalctool-ng is still a work in progress, and is currently being worked
on in a 
separate CVS branch. You can obtain it through CVS by cvs co -r
gcalctool-ng 
gcalctool. You can also get a tarball as well. Look in the links
session. 
The team would like feedback on the changes to Galctool-ng. So if you
have a 
couple of moments to check out the tool please send some feedback to the
team 
so they can continue making Gcalctool a superior tool for when you need
to do 
calculations. 

        http://users.utu.fi/~sampie/gcalctool/gcalctool-5.3.42.tar.gz
        

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10. GtkFileChooserDialog now sets its size correctly
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Federico Mena Quintero, the maintainer of GtkFileChooser, GTK's new file
dialog 
box, sent out a public service announcement stating that he has fixed
an 
important bug that set the dialog size too small. People added their own
calls 
to gtk_window_set_default_size() to get around this problem. Federico
requests 
that you no longer need to set your default size and you should remove
it from 
your code. 


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11. GNOME Presentation Materials
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Glynn Foster sent out mail regarding GNOME presentation materials. Those
of you 
who are planning on participating in a conference and want to present
talks or 
tutorails now have the opportunity to build on the work of others!
Sevearl 
presentations are already available. So if there's a conference coming
up and 
you want to help promote GNOME, this is the place to go. 
Reciprocally, if you have presentations that you would like to share
with 
others, please mail marketing-list gnome org with the URL of the
location of 
your presentation. Language is no bar, the foundation board will accept
any 
presentation. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-February/
msg00296.html

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12. GNOME Developer Platform API Docs Updated
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Matthias Clasen has put in some work to update the GNOME Developer API
docs to 
include all of the libraries that are part of the GNOME developer
platform. 
Documentation, especially of the core API, is an important factor in
GNOME 
adoption. Thanks Matthias! 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-February/
msg00186.html

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13. GNOME file sharing
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Alvaro Pena has been busily working on a file sharing add-on for
Nautilus. The 
technology currently will use Apache or some other supported web server
if it's 
installed on the system. It's an interesting feature and if you are
interested 
in contributing or in giving some feedback on the current
implementation, 
please join the gnome-network mailing list and participate! 
The file-sharing Nautilus extension is available in GNOME CVS under the 
gnome-sharing module. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-February/
msg00183.html

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14. Freedesktop.org Platform Mailing List
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Daniel Stone, release coordinator of freedesktop.org has set up a
mailing list 
on discussing the fd.o platform. If you're interested please think of
joining. 
Daniel sent this out last week and it was not covered in the GNOME
Summary and 
decided it would be mentioned this week. 


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15. Inkscape 0.37 Release
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A new version of Inkscape was released today. Inkscape includes many
major 
features, bug fixes and an extensive code base clean up. Some of these 
includes, an SVG viewer, letter spacing, path outlining and many more!
Also a 
tutorial for new users is included. Download and let Inkscape folks know
whats 
going on. Looking at the screenshots, the HIG work looks nice. 
Inkscape is an open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to
Illustrator, 
CorelDraw, Visio, etc. 

        http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes037
        http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php
        http://www.inkscape.org

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17. 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: 10541 (In the last week: New: 690, Resolved: 806,
Difference: 
-116)

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

  nautilus: 701 (In the last week: New: 74, Resolved: 121, Difference: -
47)
  gtk+: 636 (In the last week: New: 34, Resolved: 42, Difference: -8)
  gnome-vfs: 259 (In the last week: New: 6, Resolved: 8, Difference: -2)
  control-center: 255 (In the last week: New: 11, Resolved: 16,
Difference: -5)
  GnuCash: 226 (In the last week: New: 12, Resolved: 4, Difference: +8)
  gnome-panel: 221 (In the last week: New: 40, Resolved: 25, Difference:
+15)
  gnome-applets: 155 (In the last week: New: 28, Resolved: 25,
Difference: +3)
  dia: 146 (In the last week: New: 22, Resolved: 10, Difference: +12)
  galeon: 145 (In the last week: New: 38, Resolved: 36, Difference: +2)
  GStreamer: 129 (In the last week: New: 20, Resolved: 39, Difference: -
19)
  sawfish: 120 (In the last week: New: 1, Resolved: 0, Difference: +1)
  balsa: 119 (In the last week: New: 5, Resolved: 15, Difference: -10)
  metacity: 115 (In the last week: New: 12, Resolved: 10, Difference:
+2)
  doxygen: 111 (In the last week: New: 12, Resolved: 11, Difference: +1)
  Gnumeric: 108 (In the last week: New: 11, Resolved: 7, Difference: +4)
  
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: 
  
  bugsqueesher yahoo com: 98 bugs closed.
  hailstorm fairadsl co uk: 54 bugs closed.
  gnome flowerday cx: 28 bugs closed.
  otaylor redhat com: 24 bugs closed.
  sven gimp org: 22 bugs closed.
  daniel veillard com: 21 bugs closed.
  alexl redhat com: 19 bugs closed.
  maclas gmx de: 19 bugs closed.
  chpe+gnomebugz stud uni-saarland de: 18 bugs closed.
  poobar nycap rr com: 18 bugs closed.
  thomas apestaart org: 18 bugs closed.
  padraig obriain sun com: 17 bugs closed.
  marco gnome org: 16 bugs closed.
  louie ximian com: 16 bugs closed.
  ds schleef org: 16 bugs closed.
  
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16. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 69 gimp
 69 evolution
 67 gtk+
 57 epiphany
 50 dashboard
 46 gnomemeeting
 44 gimp-help-2
 42 muine
 38 anjuta
 35 nautilus
 32 balsa
 31 gnome-applets
 30 conglomerate
 28 beast
 28 gnome-games
 28 dasher
 28 gnome-control-center
 27 gok
 27 gnumeric
 25 gdesklets
[159 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 67 laurenti
 54 danilo
 42 nat
 42 arafatmedini
 40 fwang
 39 serrador
 38 neo
 38 jbaayen
 37 rayoster
 35 alexl
 34 mitr
 30 matthiasc
 28 kmaraas
 25 menthos
 25 timj
 23 dsandras
 23 breda
 23 aflinta
 22 adrighem
 22 pycage
[186 active hackers omitted]


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18. New and Updated Software
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Gfax  - fax hylafax efax facsimile
CVSGnome Build Script  - CVSGnome Build Script
PopWash  - pop3 filtering tool
gURLChecker  - Graphic web links checker
Devhelp  - API docs browser
Gnome CD Master  - CD Mastering and Burning app
GtkSourceView  - Source editor widget
BEAST/BSE  - Synthesis/Audio Framework
The GNOME XML toolkit  - The GNOME XML toolkit
gnome-mud  - GNOME-Mud is a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) client, which aims
to make 
mudding a bit easier. It can define aliases, triggers, variables.
keybind 
shortcuts and has a connection wizard to easily manage different player 
characters and MUDs. GNOME-Mud is the
gnome-crystal  - Crystalline structures visualizer
Meld  - Meld: a diff and merge tool.
Muine  - Music player
gnocl  - A GTK+ / Gnome extension for Tcl
Sodipodi  - Vector drawing program
gramps  - GNOME based genealogy program
Gossip  - GNOME 2 Instant messaging client
rubrica  - address book, pim
Dlume  - An easy to use address book.
Gnome Chemistry Utils  - chemical widgets for gnome-2

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