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GNOME Summary for 2003-01-19 - 2003-01-25

This is the GNOME Summary for 2003-01-19 - 2003-01-25
    
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Table of Contents
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1. GNOME Foundation and Bitstream announce free fonts
2. ExtremeTech interviews from LWE
3. GNOME 2 100% translated to Mongolian
4. SVG support updates
5. Official Slackware Gnome2.2 out
6. Evolution and Mono takes home prices at LinuxWorld
7. More closed-source software using GNOME technologies
8. GStreamer team prepares for first non-development release
9. Patch to make X-chat perkier
10. Updated GNOME docs from Sun
11. O'Reilly Open Source Convention want speakers
12. First official release of MAS
13. Another meeting with GNOME Meeting
14. Easier access to the power of PHP
15. Translated GNOME summaries
16. Hacker Activity
17. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
18. New and Updated Software

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1. GNOME Foundation and Bitstream announce free fonts
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Jim Gettys, creator of the X Window System and GNOME Foundation board
member has managed to secure a deal with the cool people at Bitstream to
release a family of fonts under a free license. The deal will make it
possible for all distributions to ship with a set of good fonts out of
the box. A big thanks to Bitstream for this highly needed contribution.
Press release below and image of the fonts below. 

        
http://www.bitstream.com/categories/news/press/2003_bitstream/012203_gnome.htm
       
http://www.bitstream.com/categories/products/fonts/vera/index.html

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2. ExtremeTech interviews from LWE
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Jim Lynch of ExtremeTech has done a nice collection of interviews at
this years  Linux World conference. Interviews with gnomes such as Dan
Winship, David Logan, Luis Villa and Tim Ney. Other interesting news in
this article is Suse's Holger Dyroff saing Suse will provide a fairer,
more balanced approach to supporting both leading Linux desktops. 

        http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3998,a=36078,00.asp

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3. GNOME 2 100% translated to Mongolian
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One of the groups that don't nearly get as much credit and spotlight as
they deserve are our translators. So it is with great pleasure to give
some credit to our new Mongolian translation team who has within a month
taken GNOME from 0% to 100% percent translated into Mongolian. Link
below to Christian Rose email with the news (it says 95% there, but the
last 5% is in since :). 

        
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-January/msg00541.html

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4. SVG support updates
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In an earlier summary I mentioned the the new GTK+ 2 SVG stock icon
theme, but I gave the wrong name for the CVS module. The CVS module
containing this theme is called gnome-themes-extras. Also for those
wondering if the SVG theme is slower than other themes, no it is not, in
fact librsvg loads and renders SVG images faster than libpng load and
renders png images. Screenshots below showing the Gorilla metatheme in
action and the second shows parts of the BlueSphere svg icon theme. 

        http://www.linuxrising.com/files/gorilla.png
        http://www.linuxrising.com/files/BlueSphere.png

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5. Official Slackware Gnome2.2 out
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Seems Suse aren't the only one beefing up their GNOME support. Patrick 
Volkerding and the Slackware team has updated the official GNOME 2
packages in Slackware to include the latest GNOME 2.2 snapshots and will
of course include the official GNOME 2.2 packages when they are out
later this week. 

       
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=888&mode=&order=0&thold=1

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6. Evolution and Mono takes home prices at LinuxWorld
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This years LinuxWorld Expo was a good one for GNOME. Evolution won the
Best Front Office Solution and the Mono Project won the award for Best
Open Source Project. Congratulations to Ximian and everyone else
involved. 

        
http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=lwe_200
3_awards

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7. More closed-source software using GNOME technologies
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It seems the adoption of GNOME technologies as the premier way of
bringing properietary software to Linux continues. Ximian and Sun
Microsystems announced Sun ONE Connector for Ximian Evolution, which
connects Evolution the groupware functionality in the Sun One plattform.
The connector will be free software, but the server software is not. 

        
http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sun_one
Lost Marble announced a linux port using GTK+ of their Moho program.
Moho creates professional-grade 2D vector-based cartoon animations and
can export them to a number of formats (including video or Flash). 

        http://www.lostmarble.com/moho/

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8. GStreamer team prepares for first non-development release
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The GStreamer team announced version 0.5.2 of the GStreamer media
framework this week. 0.5.2 is to be considered a release candidate in
preparation for the 0.6.0 release which will be a long term supported
stable release series of GStreamer. Most GStreamer based applications
like nautilus-media, gnome-media and rhythmbox is already updated in CVS
to support running under both 0.6.x and the new development series,
0.7.x. 

        http://www.gstreamer.net

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9. Patch to make X-chat perkier
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Rodney Dawes is on a crusade to make the xchat2 gui integrate better
with GNOME. To accomplish this is he working on a patch (to be submitted
to xchat maintainers) to get xchat to start using more standard widgets
like proper stock icon arrows. The end result is a much more smooth
looking xchat2 
experience. Check out links to screenshot and patch. 

        
http://primates.ximian.com/~dobey/xchat2-pretty-arrows-no-channel-button.png
        http://elysium-project.sourceforge.net/xchat-1.9.8-fixes.patch

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10. Updated GNOME docs from Sun
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The Sun documentation team have updated a whole bunch of Help manuals
and user guides for the GNOME 2.2 desktop. See the following mail for a
full list ot the impressive contributions from this small but
hard-working team. 

       
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2003-January/msg00122.html

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11. O'Reilly Open Source Convention want speakers
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Edd Dumbill, our own GNOME Bluetooth integrator, is chairing the
Applications Track at this years O'Reilly Open Source Convention. If you
are working on a application for GNOME and Unix and are willing to give
a presentation about it contact Edd and he can probably help you out.
See the page Edd put togheter for details. 

        http://usefulinc.com/oscon/2003/

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12. First official release of MAS
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Shiman Associates announced the first release of the MAS mediaserver
this week. MAS is meant to the the sound and video companion to X
Windows offering network transparent media support. For GNOME MAS is
especially interesting as a potential replacement for the aging ESD
soundserver. The MAS team has already made many nice GTK+ 2.0
applications to demonstrate the capabilities of MAS. 

        http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/
        http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/mas_screenshot.html

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13. Another meeting with GNOME Meeting
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Damien Sandras and the rest of the GNOME Meeting hackers have released
version 0.96 of the premies Unix video conferencing application. Many
improvements including support for a soon to be released PC-to-Phone
calling service. Links below to GNOME Meeting homepage and screenshots
section. 

        http://www.gnomemeeting.org
        http://www.gnomemeeting.org/index.php?rub=4&pos=0

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14. Easier access to the power of PHP
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PHP is one of the most popular technologies out there for creating
dynamic webpages. A new project has been started to ease the effort of
webdevelopers when using this powerfull language, gphpedit. The project
is already well underway and have made the first development release
available. Check out the gphpedit homepage for more info. 

        http://www.gphpedit.org/

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15. 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/gnome-summary/gnome_summary.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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16. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 108 evolution
 88 gnucash
 56 metacity
 54 mc
 52 gnome-panel
 47 gnome-utils
 47 seahorse
 46 gnome-control-center
 43 gnome-i18n
 43 gnomemeeting
 40 gnome-themes
 40 totem
 38 gtk+
 37 gnome-applets
 37 gnome-terminal
 37 libgnome
 33 zenity
 32 gnome-session
 32 pan
 31 epiphany
[163 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 115 menthos
 100 cneumair
 99 kmaraas
 95 minmax
 77 warlord (gnucash)
 69 rasta
 65 pablo
 52 peterisk
 45 murrayc
 43 ettore
 40 proskin
 38 dmitrym
 38 mandreiana
 37 hadess
 34 jap1
 33 baddog
 29 carton
 29 gman
 27 adrighem
 26 stano
[179 active hackers omitted]


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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: 7875 (In the last week: New: 631, Resolved: 560,
Difference: 
+71)

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

  nautilus: 728 (In the last week: New: 79, Resolved: 71, Difference:
+8)
  gtk+: 490 (In the last week: New: 24, Resolved: 46, Difference: -22)
  galeon: 431 (In the last week: New: 52, Resolved: 30, Difference: +22)
  gnome-vfs: 256 (In the last week: New: 2, Resolved: 8, Difference: -6)
  GIMP: 230 (In the last week: New: 14, Resolved: 14, Difference: 0)
  gnome-applets: 207 (In the last week: New: 19, Resolved: 23,
Difference: -4)
  gnome-panel: 163 (In the last week: New: 45, Resolved: 38, Difference:
+7)
  control-center: 129 (In the last week: New: 27, Resolved: 14,
Difference: +13)
  gnome-core: 109 (In the last week: New: 11, Resolved: 9, Difference:
+2)
  sawfish: 105 (In the last week: New: 2, Resolved: 1, Difference: +1)
  metacity: 104 (In the last week: New: 9, Resolved: 3, Difference: +6)
  libzvt: 94 (In the last week: New: 3, Resolved: 1, Difference: +2)
  medusa: 92 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0)
  balsa: 86 (In the last week: New: 11, Resolved: 4, Difference: +7)
  libgnomeui: 75 (In the last week: New: 1, Resolved: 1, Difference: 0)
  
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: 
  
  newren math utah edu: 93 bugs closed.
  aldug astrolinux com: 51 bugs closed.
  otaylor redhat com: 32 bugs closed.
  yaneti declera com: 27 bugs closed.
  andrew sobala net: 21 bugs closed.
  bordoley msu edu: 16 bugs closed.
  jdahlin async com br: 14 bugs closed.
  dennis_cranston yahoo com: 14 bugs closed.
  rodrigo gnome-db org: 12 bugs closed.
  alexl redhat com: 11 bugs closed.
  tester videotron ca: 10 bugs closed.
  arvind samptur wipro com: 10 bugs closed.
  dsandras seconix com: 9 bugs closed.
  hp redhat com: 9 bugs closed.
  hadess hadess net: 9 bugs closed.
  
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18. New and Updated Software
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gdm  - GNOME Display Manager
CVSGnome Build Script  - CVSGnome Build Script
Dr. Genius  - Geometry Sofware
gtkVUMeter  - a VU Meter widget for gtk+
GRot13  - Rot13 GUI interface
swfdec  - swf (Flash) rendering library
Sticky Notes  - Sticky Notes for the Gnome Desktop
gNumExp  - GNOME math program
Flink mailapplet  - Multiple account mailbiff for panel
Seahorse  - gpg frontend
DiaSCE  - C, C++ code editor
guinstaller  - Installation Assistant
MrProject  - Project management application
Firestarter  - Firewall program
camorama  - webcam application
gedit  - Lightweight UTF-8 text editor
GnuCash  - A personal finance manager
Drivel LiveJournal Client  - LiveJournal client
gQueue  - Gnome frontend for cups queues
Additional GNOME Themes  - Additional GNOME Themes
gThumb  - Image viewer and browser.
File Roller  - archive manager.
gmmusic  - music collection manager
gtkgrepmail  - frontend to grepmail
HTML Code Convert  - Convert HTML
gnome-utils  - collection of small applications
GNOME Commander  - file manager
Alceri Multimedia Player  - CDs ogg mpeg player
galculator  - GTK2 based scientific calculator
TiLP - Ti Linking Program  - TexasInstruments graphing calculators

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

For the first time on a long time did I mention some non-free software
this time. Tried marking it clearly however so I hope everyone is
content. 

Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller 

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