GNOME Summary August 15-22

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

This is the GNOME Summary for August 15-August 22.

Note that I've enhanced the web site for the summary, see
http://developer.gnome.org/news/summary/ - there are also summary archives
there. This is a fun way to read your GNOME Summary.

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  Table of Contents
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 1)  New Status Page
 2)  File Manager Status Report
 3)  Crazy out of control window manager influx
 4)  Gnotices
 5)  New gnome-libs and control center
 6)  New draft of window manager spec
 7)  Hacking Activity
 8)  New and Updated Software

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 1)  New Status Page

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I made a status page to track our current releases and main GNOME focuses. 
You can find it at:

   http://developer.gnome.org/news/status

There are some interesting links from this page to status reports from
project maintainers. One of the most interesting is...

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 2)  File Manager Status Report

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Ettore gave us an extensive file manager status update, look here:

  http://developer.gnome.org/news/status/fm.html

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 3)  Crazy out of control window manager influx

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Two new GNOME window manager candidates appeared this week:
 
Sawmill:

  http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~john/sw/sawmill/index.html

wmG:

  http://ductape.net/~reeve/projects.html

The other possibilities still exist: Alfredo is adding to WindowMaker
for us, and Jay Painter's gnome-wm in CVS. A hacked WindowMaker looks
like the fastest way to get a fully-functional and stable window
manager in the near future.  But some of these other projects may be
nice over the longer term. We'll see how it goes; you can never have
too many window managers. :-)

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 4)  Gnotices

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We made a site using the Slashdot-like Squishdot engine to display
GNOME developer news; this site may eventually be a rich source of
GNOME Summary items. :-) Unfortunately we are having DNS and firewall
issues, so the site will be down right this minute, but if you keep
trying during the week it will be up eventually:

  http://news.gnome.org

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 5)  New gnome-libs and control center

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We released gnome-libs 1.0.14; 1.0.13 appeared for a short time, but
had a mistakenly-changed soname for libart_lgpl so was immediately
withdrawn. Please upgrade to 1.0.14 and delete the libart_lgpl.so.2
symlink from your library directory if you happened to download
1.0.13.

The new control center release has bugfixes, and a reworked
ui-properties capplet.

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 6)  New draft of window manager spec

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Marko Macek (of icewm fame) posted the latest draft of the GNOME/KDE
window manager spec to the window manager spec mailing list. Read it
here:
  
  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/wm-spec-list/1999-August/0014.shtml

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 7)  Hacking Activity

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Almost 700 commits this week.

Module Score-O-Matic:

  60 gtk--
  59 gimp
  57 gnome-libs
  50 gnome-scrabble
  49 gnome-core
  49 bonobo
  41 gnumeric
  27 gnome-applets
  20 libunicode
  20 control-center
  18 dia
  16 xpdf
  15 gtk+
  14 web-devel-2
  14 mc
  11 gedit
  11 dryad
  10 ggv
   9 achtung
   8 gnome-print
   6 glade--
   6 esound
   6 ORBit

User Score-O-Matic:

  65 unammx
  53 kenelson
  51 tgil
  47 jirka
  46 sopwith
  31 kmaraas
  25 mmeeks
  22 nat
  22 jberkman
  21 pablo
  20 tml
  19 hp
  17 campd
  11 jpekka
  11 jimb
  11 jamesh
  10 jrb
  10 dcm

gnome-libs bugfixes were pouring in this week. A new Scrabble game
appeared, from Tom Gilbert. GTK+ is gearing up for a 1.2.4 release,
which should appear soon. James Henstridge seems to have added circuit
objects to the Dia diagram editor. George is back from Czech (I think)
and checking in lots of stuff, including gnome-libs
documentation. Various tweaks and enhancements were applied to the
panel, applets, and control center. Federico is fixing lots of gmc
bugs. Elliot checked in a gnome-java module, with a start on Java
bindings (help is probably accepted on these). 

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 8)  New and Updated Software

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gnome-libs and Gnumeric also had new releases this week, but aren't in
the software map.

G-Typo: typing game
wmG: Gtk-based window manager
gtkdiff: diff frontend
XChat: swiss army IRC client
gproc: process list
RPM Explorer: explore your files, annotated via RPM database
gMessagingSystem: desktop messaging system
Sodipodi: prototype vector graphics editor
galway: web editor
GNetTool: network monitoring
Gip: tarball installation frontend
GnomePM: Portfolio manager
Gzilla: web browser
gnome-scrabble: Scrabble clone, schedule to be renamed to avoid trademark issues. :-)
libptb: Library to develop apps with user-customizable toolbars. 
        Note to libptb maintainer: this should be merged with gnome-libs if people
        are going to use it; otherwise we end up with nonstandard look-and-feel.
        Please chat with nat@nat.org about the new Bonobo-based system
GSNes9x: Nintendo emulator
ggv: Postscript viewer
gVidChanger: Change video resolutions
             Note to gVidChanger maintainer: We'd like this feature in the control
             center, mail jrb@redhat.com, the applet could also go in gnome-applets
XSitecopy: synchronize file hierarchies
Gnome-Lines: colored lines game
gIPSC: IP subnet calculator
GNOME-Joystick: Joystick configuration (capplet/standalone)
GNOME-Model: 3D model visualization
GNOME-Video: Video playback widget
Pybliographer: Bibliography database frontend
Spruce: Yet Another GNOME Email Client
gnome-pilot: PalmPilot tools
GNOME Toaster: CD burner
PopApp: Biff applet
WaveForge: Sound editor
XWhois: whois frontend

See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more
information about any of these packages.

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Until next week - 

Havoc