GNOME Summary September 21-28

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

This is the GNOME Summary for September 21-28.

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  Table of Contents
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 1)  Documentation moves to PNG
 2)  Eye of GNOME release
 3)  gdk-pixbuf release
 4)  1.0.40 beta release
 5)  First Bonobo release
 6)  Hacking Activity
 7)  New and Updated Software

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 1)  Documentation moves to PNG

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Dave Mason has asked for (and received) PNG support in the next version of DocBook. 
In the meantime however, we have a GNOME-specific DocBook DTD enhancement that you 
should use if you want to use PNG images in your documentation. Dave explains more 
here:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/938459177/index_html

This allows us to move from GIF to PNG, avoiding unpleasant patent issues and 
getting a better image format to boot.

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 2)  Eye of GNOME release

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Federico announced the first version of his image viewer:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/938480153/index_html

It doesn't do much except zoom in a really impressive way. Load a
large image and press the + and - keys a lot, I enjoy that. :-) Try
it!

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 3)  gdk-pixbuf release

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Eye of GNOME requires gdk-pixbuf so we got a release of that as well. See the announce:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-September/0779.shtml

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 4)  1.0.40 beta release

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A beta in preparation for 1.0.50 is out; Grand Master of Releases Elliot Lee 
announces it here:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/938200295/index_html

Dax, as always, is ready with well-tested and timely RPM packages:

  ftp://ftp.gurulabs.com/pub/gnome/updates/1.0.40 

Please bang the remaining bugs out of this (though I don't see many, it seems
very stable...)

It would be especially nice to try to break the new Tasklist and Desk
Guide. These replace the old Pager applet, though we are going to ship
the Pager as well since it's better tested and some people like it
better. Actually I'm not sure we'll ship the new applets with 1.0.50 but
it's being considered.

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 5)  First Bonobo release

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We finally have a tarball of the Bonobo component architecture library! 

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-September/0770.shtml

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 6)  Hacking Activity

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Module Score-O-Matic:

  94 gnumeric
  73 gnome-core
  59 gimp
  46 gnome-libs
  36 dr-genius
  32 rp3
  30 gtk--
  25 gnome-pim
  24 mc
  22 bonobo-doc
  19 gfloppy
  17 gnomeweb
  17 gaby
  16 gtop
  16 gnome-media
  15 gtrouble
  15 gtk+
  15 bonobo
  14 libgtop
  14 gnome-print
  14 gnome-games
  14 eog
  14 control-center

User Score-O-Matic:

  95 unammx
  81 kmaraas
  36 chyla
  30 mmeeks
  30 martin
  29 jrb
  29 jirka
  26 sopwith
  23 jody
  21 mathieu
  19 johnsonm
  18 docsbr
  18 asbjoer
  17 tgil
  16 rhult
  16 neo
  16 jberkman
  15 campd
  14 mortenw
  13 vinc
  13 martijn
  12 owen
  12 dietmar

Jonathan wrote the "gfloppy" floppy formatting utility. He refuses to
call it "Floppy Buddy" despite our repeated persuasion attempts.

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 7)  New and Updated Software

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URL Collector: stores URLS
Pybliographer: bibliography database
LED Counter: applet that counts stuff
GnoFract: Fractal generator
GTelnet: telnet client
sawmill: nice GNOME-compliant window manager
GProc: process list
Gaspell: aspell frontend
GnomeToaster: CD writer
Eucalyptus: email client
galway: web editor
gnome-core: Core GNOME desktop components
gnome-libs: GNOME libraries
gtk--: GTK/GNOME C++ bindings
Glade: GUI builder
Gnumeric: GNOME spreadsheet
gnome-utils: small utility programs
gnome-pim: Calendar and address book
gnome-media: CD player and misc. media stuff
gdm: XDM replacement, PAM compliant
gtop: top replacement
libgtop: portable abstraction layer for platform-specific information        
ORBit: small light ORB
esound: sound daemon
screem: web site manager
gwsearch: web search engine frontend
elknews: newsreader
gFTP: ftp client
DPS-FTP: ftp client
gVN: visual network manager
gnome-pilot: GNOME palm pilot tools
Pan: newsreader
Gip: GNOME install project
Gaby: personal database manager
libglade: load Glade UI files at runtime
Screen-shooter: screenshot applet
Gmail: email system based on SQL

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