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GNOME Summary for 2002-11-10 - 2002-11-30

This is the GNOME Summary for 2002-11-10 - 2002-11-30
    
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Table of Contents
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1. GNOME 2.0.3 and 2.1.3 Available
2. New GNOME Documentation
3. Sodipodi 0.28 out and GNOME 2 port begun
4. Instant messaging for GNOME 2
5. GNOME Bluetooth software available
6. Sun article on integrating applications into GNOME2
7. Cross-desktop accessiblity
8. Mozilla 1.2 released and pulled back
9. Abstracting the Linux Desktop from the File-system
10. CD burning in Nautilus
11. Inside Abiword
12. Film Gimp
13. Arabic GNOME gets a boost
14. Layout of Rhythmbox GUI
15. Guitar maker plays a Linux tune
16. Font install and preview in Nautilus
17. Progress report on Nautilus media view
18. Conference season
19. Translated GNOME summaries
20. Hacker Activity
21. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
22. New and Updated Software

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1. GNOME 2.0.3 and 2.1.3 Available
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Since the last summary we have had new releases of both the stable 2.0
series and the new development 2.1 series. Lots of nice polish added to
the 2.0 series and lots of nice new features added to the 2.1 series.
One of my personal favourites in 2.1.3 for instance is ACME which is a
nifty tool that allows you to configure all those extra keys that modern
keyboards are equiped with, like multimedia keys. Check out the
announcements on gnomedesktop.org to get the details on both releases. 
       
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=782&mode=thread&order=0
        http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=786&mode=&order=0

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2. New GNOME Documentation
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Thanks to the help of our friends at Sun and IBM we have lately been
able to get some really nice updates our documentation. First out was
Sharon Snider of IBM who created the GNOME 2 Desktop Accessibility
Guide. Next came the Sun GNOME Documentation Team who posted a new
revision of the GNOME Desktop 2.0 User Guide. So you GNOME desktop is
now better documented than ever. Thanks to IBM and Sun for these nice
contributions in an area that often get neglected in 
free software. 

        http://www.gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.0/
        http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.0/

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3. Sodipodi 0.28 out and GNOME 2 port begun
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Lauris Kaplinski has made a new release of everyones favourite vector
drawing application. This one offers some very nice speed fixes to make
Sodipodi much more responsive. Lauris has also merged the GNOME2 porting
branch to head in CVS which means the GNOME 2 port is now under full
development. Next release of Sodipodi will probably be GNOME 2 based. 
        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-November/msg00095.html
        http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/

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4. Instant messaging for GNOME 2
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Instant messaging applications have been a popular fixture of computing
for some years now. GNOME has had some great clients available like
Gaim, Gabber and GnomeICQ all of which are currently getting ported to
GNOME2. There is a new Instant messaging application for GNOME2
available now called Gimli which looks nice, although still at an early
stage. You find screenshots and download info at the Gimli homepage. 

        http://gimli.sourceforge.net/

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5. GNOME Bluetooth software available
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Last issue we mentioned the Bluetooth tools for GNOME being put togheter
by Edd Dumbill. Well they have now had their first official development
release and are available for testing. You find the GNOME bluetooth
subsytem homepage and the nice phonemgr application at the links below.
Be sure to check them out if you have bluetooth support for your
computer. 

        http://usefulinc.com/software/gnome-bluetooth
        http://usefulinc.com/software/phonemgr

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6. Sun article on integrating applications into GNOME2
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In their effort to help their customers and partners migrate their
systems to GNOME 2, in preparation for its inclusion as the official Sun
Solaris Desktop, the Sun team has writen a short but useful article on
how to integrate your applications into GNOME. This article could be
usefull for anyone who wonders how practical issues like the GNOME menu
etc. works. 

        http://soldc.sun.com/articles/integrating_gnome.html

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7. Cross-desktop accessiblity
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Judging by a new story posted to the KDE newsite it seems the KDE
developers are willing to work togheter with us to create a shared
system for accessiblity support on Unix. This is really great news as it
means GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice, Mozilla and Java will all use the same
basic libraries for accessibility on Unix, which will make life much
easier for those among us who need accessibility support to use their
computer.. 

        http://dot.kde.org/1038439306/

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8. Mozilla 1.2 released and pulled back
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Our friends over in the Mozilla project released the 1.2 release of the
Mozilla browser this week. Unfortunatly there turned out to be a dhtml
bug in the release which caused them to pull it again. A 1.2.1 release
is being rapidly put togheter which containts a fix for this. This
release contains Christopher Blizzards xft support. The gtk2 support is
not yet officially released, but it is commited to the head branch in
Mozilla CVS. 

        http://www.mozilla.org

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9. Abstracting the Linux Desktop from the File-system
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Mark Finlay recently wrote and article which has gotten some widespread 
attention about avstracting the Linux Desktop from the File-System. An 
interesting read and it might even help you improve your own desktop
usage. 

        http://evolvedoo.sourceforge.net/abstract/index.html

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10. CD burning in Nautilus
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Efforts are underway to make burning of cdroms more easy. Alex Larsson
has added a module to GNOME CVS called nautilus-cd-burner which aims to
give you cdburning support from within Nautilus. No screenshots
available yet, but we will keep you posted :) 
       
http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvs/gnome&dir=nautilus-cd-burner

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11. Inside Abiword
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Salon ran an article about Abiword where developer Martin Sevior was
featured. Martin is the person responsible for the table support in
current development version of Abiword. He is also one of my favourite
candiates in the GNOME Foundation election. If you haven't seen it
already be sure to read the article in Salon. 

        http://salon.com/tech/col/leon/2002/11/15/abiword/index.html

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12. Film Gimp
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Maintainer of Film-gimp Robin Rowe was inteviewed by desktop linux. It
is a interesting interview where you can see a good example of free GTK
software being widely used in Hollywood. Who knows maybe Film Gimp will
help GNOME replace MacOS as the hollywood darling :) 

        http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7096363910.html

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13. Arabic GNOME gets a boost
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Pango maintainer Owen Taylor managed to nail a long standing bug which
has been a blemish on Arabic GNOME desktops. The bug caused rendering of
Arabic menus to break if key accelerators was turned on so our Arabic
translators had to turn it of. With this new patch Arabic menu rendering
works well with accelerated keys so all Owen asks is that as many people
as possible test the patch and report back so he can commit it CVS. You
find a link to the bug below and a nice screenshot showing it in action
from Hicham Amaoui. 

        http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83058
        http://amaoui.free.fr/gnome2/images/accels.png

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14. Layout of Rhythmbox GUI
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Jorn Baayen and the Rhythmbox team is currently redesigning the
Rhythmbox GUI in order to make it work better with all the latest
features added to Rhythmbox. Personally I think the new look is even
cooler, but do see for yourself. Check out the link below for a
screenshot and of course the Rhythmbox homepage. 

        http://people.nl.linux.org/~jorn/Files/oegadoega2.png
        http://www.rhythmbox.org

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15. Guitar maker plays a Linux tune
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If you have ever played a guitar you probably know Ernie Ball Inc. What
you probably didn't know is that they are running GNOME on their
business desktops. Don't know about you, but reading about it was music
to my ears. Check out link below for article at infoworld.com. 
        
http://infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/11/27/021127hnerniball.xml?s=IDGNS

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16. Font install and preview in Nautilus
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James Henstridge just put a neat little additon into GNOME CVS this
weekend. It is a new module for gnome-vfs and Nautilus called fontilus
which gives you a nice preview of fonts in Nautilus and an easy way to
install them on your fontconfig based system. Check out screenshot
below. 

        http://www.daa.com.au/~james/images/fontilus-thumb-jdub2.png

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17. Progress report on Nautilus media view
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Thomas Vander Stichele has been working hard over the last few days to
make sure the Nautilus media view components where ready for the GNOME
2.2 gui freeze date. Is effort has not gone by unrewarded and we can
here bring you two screenshots showing where things are at. The first
shows the new music view, the second the new media properties tab and
the third shows the video thumbnailing (and also fontilus). The video
play-on-hoover will not be ready for GNOME 2.2 and will have to wait for
GNOME 2.4. In other GStreamer related news there are the sure sings of
making it big, like even get patches to compile GStreamer on s390. 

        
http://thomas.apestaart.org/download/screenshots/nautilus-media-view-7.png
       
http://thomas.apestaart.org/download/screenshots/nautilus-media-view-6.png
        http://www.prettypeople.org/~iain/videos-fonts.png

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18. Conference season
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A new year is soon upon us and with that many of our favourite
conferences are once again coming around. Attending conferences is of
course one of the best ways to get to know other members of the GNOME
community for real, GUADEC of course being the most important one in
this respect. But there are others conferences you probably do not want
to miss especially if getting to GUADEC in Dublin this year will be
troublesome for you. First out is Linux.conf.au conference being held in
Perth, Western Australia from January 22 to 25. Some of the core GNOME
people attending this conference will be Jeff Waugh, Malcolm Tredinnick,
Telsa and James Henstridge. 

        http://linux.conf.au/

Another important conference is FOSDEM in Belgium. 
FOSDEM if happening on February 8 and 9. Core GNOME people attending
this conference will be Bruno Coudion, Damien Sandras, Havoc Pennington,
Hilaire Fernandes, Jacub Steiner, Michael Meeks, Owen Taylor, Thomas
Vander Stichele and there are even rumours that I will be walking around
there :) 

        http://www.fosdem.org/index

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19. Translated GNOME summaries
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We now have French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish -
all the links below. 

        http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4
        http://www.gnome-de.org/projekte/listen/#news gnome-de org
        http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/
        http://developer.gnome.or.kr/news/
        http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br/resumo-gnome/
        http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/

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21. 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: 7507 (In the last week: New: 608, Resolved: 600,
Difference: +8)

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

  nautilus: 671 (In the last week: New: 47, Resolved: 61, Difference:
-14)
  gtk+: 522 (In the last week: New: 27, Resolved: 41, Difference: -14)
  galeon: 389 (In the last week: New: 57, Resolved: 45, Difference: +12)
  GIMP: 286 (In the last week: New: 13, Resolved: 7, Difference: +6)
  gnome-vfs: 271 (In the last week: New: 3, Resolved: 1, Difference: +2)
  gnome-applets: 175 (In the last week: New: 20, Resolved: 18,
Difference: +2)
  gnome-panel: 166 (In the last week: New: 48, Resolved: 41, Difference:
+7)
  control-center: 112 (In the last week: New: 22, Resolved: 20,
Difference: +2)
  gnome-core: 112 (In the last week: New: 13, Resolved: 10, Difference:
+3)
  medusa: 92 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0)
  sawfish: 88 (In the last week: New: 2, Resolved: 2, Difference: 0)
  libzvt: 88 (In the last week: New: 1, Resolved: 2, Difference: -1)
  dia: 87 (In the last week: New: 7, Resolved: 13, Difference: -6)
  Gnumeric: 85 (In the last week: New: 15, Resolved: 6, Difference: +9)
  balsa: 75 (In the last week: New: 5, Resolved: 10, Difference: -5)
  
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: 
  
  dkennedy tinytoad com: 93 bugs closed.
  newren math utah edu: 43 bugs closed.
  paolo bacch tin it: 25 bugs closed.
  otaylor redhat com: 24 bugs closed.
  yaneti declera com: 21 bugs closed.
  jfleck inkstain net: 21 bugs closed.
  aschwin van der woude creanor com: 20 bugs closed.
  tester videotron ca: 17 bugs closed.
  andrew sobala net: 15 bugs closed.
  dsandras seconix com: 15 bugs closed.
  mark skynet ie: 14 bugs closed.
  lrclause uiuc edu: 12 bugs closed.
  hadess hadess net: 11 bugs closed.
  Uraeus linuxrising org: 11 bugs closed.
  kfv101 psu edu: 11 bugs closed.
  
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20. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 123 gnucash
 54 evolution
 49 gtkmm-root
 48 sun-patches
 41 gimp
 38 gtk+
 35 gnome-applets
 32 rhythmbox
 32 gnomeicu
 31 dia
 29 galeon
 29 gnumeric
 27 mc
 25 glib
 22 gnome-control-center
 22 gedit
 22 gthumb
 21 gnomemeeting
 19 nautilus
 19 sodipodi
[127 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 74 menthos
 46 yaneti
 42 cneumair
 42 cstim (gnucash)
 40 olau
 38 dolfin
 37 adrighem
 37 murrayc
 34 daniel
 29 mbukovjan
 27 lclausen
 27 sebol
 27 warlord (gnucash)
 26 toshok
 25 hadess
 24 Tester
 24 hampton (gnucash)
 22 matthiasc
 21 proskin
 20 alexl
[134 active hackers omitted]


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22. New and Updated Software
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Gnome Crontab Editor  - A crontab administration tool
Dr. Genius  - Geometry Sofware
netspeed_applet  - networkspeed monitor applet
gThumb  - Image viewer and browser.
Gimli  - GNOME Instant Messenger
Quick Lounge  - Quick Launch for GNOME 2
The Bubbling Load Monitoring Applet  - System load monitor applet
Totem  - Movie player based on the xine libraries
gFTP  - Multithreaded FTP client
Coriander  - 1394 camera controller
GNOME Accessibility Themes  - Accessibility Themes
Meld  - Meld: a diff and merge tool.
Gnometab  - guitar tablature editor
Gamazons  - Gnome implemenation of Amazons
rubrica  - address book, pim
Sodipodi  - Vector drawing program
gnome-crystal  - Crystalline structures visualizer
Glade--  - Gtkmm[2] code creator
Goats  - Sticky notes applet
GTK-Lsof  - GTK 2 GUI for Lsof
gjots  - jotter

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

Sorry for the pause in summaries, but we got a lot of new orders at
Oracle and I have been working very long days including weekends for the
last weeks so the energy to do much except eat and sleep hasn't been
there. Anyway seems things might at least calm down to something at
least resembling a 8 hour workday, so now here is another summary from
me. The news covers the whole period since the last summary, but the
statistics are just for the most recent week. 

Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller 
gnome-summary gnome org
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