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GNOME Summary for 2003-02-03 - 2003-03-15

This is the GNOME Summary for 2003-02-03 - 2003-03-15
    
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Table of Contents
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1. GNOME 2.2.1 released
2. GNOME 2 version of Dia
3. librsvg improves CSS2 with libcroco
4. Mozilla 1.3, GRE and Minimoz
5. GUADEC talks
6. Evolution 1.3.1
7. More Documentation
8. Beast/BSE release
9. Nautilus getting more polish
10. Thumbnailing with style
11. Fileselector backend design
12. Toolbar editor
13. A,B,C or D-Bus?
14. Mono documentation and CORBA support
15. GNOME interviews
16. Hacker Activity
17. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
18. New and Updated Software

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1. GNOME 2.2.1 released
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The GNOME team has released another milestone on the path towards the
perfect Unix desktop. This release includes many bugfixes and small
improvements that has been done over the last months since the 2.2.0
release. 
        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2003-March/msg00049.html

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2. GNOME 2 version of Dia
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The Dia team announced their 0.91 release this week. It is a major
release with lots of nice additions and fixes, including the long
awaited move to Gtk+ 2.0. So once again you can have a diagram tool that
integrates wonderfully with your desktop. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2003-March/msg00043.html

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3. librsvg improves CSS2 with libcroco
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Dominic Lachowicz of librsvg fame is working with libcroco developer
Dodji Seketeli to use libcroco for CCS2 parsing in librsvg. This will
enable much improved CCS2 parsing in librsvg, which again will enable
altering many aspects of SVG themes like for instance colours. 

        http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/libcroco
        http://librsvg.sourceforge.net

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4. Mozilla 1.3, GRE and Minimoz
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The Mozilla team has made another release of Mozilla 1.3, which of
course includes Gtk+ 2.0 support. It is an important milestone towards a
improved html rendering widget for use in Galeon, Epiphany and Nautilus.
This process will be completed with the release of Mozilla sub-projects
GRE, the Gecko Runtime Environment, and Minimoz, the small footprint
branch of Mozilla. 

        http://www.mozilla.org/releases/
        http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/MRE.html
        http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194240

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5. GUADEC talks
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The deadline for submiting talks to this years GUADEC in Dublin is
looming very near. So all potential presentation givers out there make
sure to contact the GUADEC comitee as fast as possible. Doing a talk at
GUADEC is the best way to give your fellow GNOME hackers the information
they need to use your application or library. 
        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers-readonly/2003-March/msg00125.html

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6. Evolution 1.3.1
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A new preview release of the GNOME 2 port of Evolution has been made.
The Evolution team is charging full speed ahead on making the GNOME 2
port, which of course will be the best release of Evolution ever! 
        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2003-March/msg00039.html

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7. More Documentation
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Eugene O'Connor of Sun Microsystems has released the latest version of
the User Guide. The guide includes updates to panels, removable media,
the font and theme preference tools, bug fixes, and many other minor
updates. Alexander Kirillov has announced a new version of the
introduction to GNOME document which gives an overview of GNOME for new
users. 

        http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/latest/
        http://www.gnome.org/learn/intro/latest/

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8. Beast/BSE release
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Tim Janik and Stefan Westerfeld made a 0.5 release of the very nice
Bedevilled Sound Engine. BSE is a popular library for music composition,
audio synthesis and sound sample manipulation. 
        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2003-March/msg00042.html

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9. Nautilus getting more polish
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Dave Camp and Alexander Larsson is wearing the gold buttoned captains
jacket again. They are hard at work making sure Nautilus is ready to
sail new oceans. They recently did a 2.2.2 release which inlcluded fixes
for issues with selecting transparent icons, toolbar themeing, session
managed views and more. So remember to buy Alex and Dave a bottle of Rum
at GUADEC this year. 
       
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2003-March/msg00074.html

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10. Thumbnailing with style
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Bastien Nocera says that the reason he is making so much eyecandy
software is because he wants software that reminds him of himself. I
will not comment on that, but I have to say that his latest addition to
the totem video thumbnailer for nautilus do look cool. Check out the
screenshot below for the details. 

        http://www.hadess.net/tmp/movies-with-emblems-3.png

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11. Fileselector backend design
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Owen Taylor posted to the gtk-devel mailing list with a first draft for
the design of the API for GtkFileSystem. This is the first step in
getting the new fileselector ready for Gtk+ 2.4. Check out Owens mail
and the current set of responses and maybe join the discussion if you
have something to contribute. 

       
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2003-March/msg00174.html

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12. Toolbar editor
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To edit or not to edit, that is the question. Some GNOME apps include a
toolbar editor already, but there are those who want to make it a
standard part of the toolkit. Iain Holmes started the discussion by
posting his ideas and many others including Biswapesh Chattopadhyay
followed up with their ideas and screenshots. 
        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-March/msg00484.html
        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-March/msg00573.html

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13. A,B,C or D-Bus?
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Anyone who hasn't been hit by a bus lately are probably aware of the big
discussion in both GNOME and KDE about the new D-Bus messaging bus. It
was created by KDE founder Mattias Etrich getting togheter with some
GNOME and KDE hackers, including Gnome's Havoc Penington and Anders
Carlsson. The goal was to try and design a shared message bus for GNOME,
KDE and others. This move has not gone by without controversy as you
might guess, the continued use of CORBA for this has strong proponents
in GNOME and the continued use of DCOP has strong proponents in KDE. 
One thing that do seem clear however is that the introduction of D-Bus
will not mean the demise of CORBA in GNOME, but instead D-Bus will
probably get included in addition to CORBA, to serve in areas where Unix
desktop interoperability is paramount. Havoc Penington's D-Bus
explanation email linked below. 
        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-February/msg01043.html

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14. Mono documentation and CORBA support
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If you are interested in starting to work on writing GNOME applications
using C# and the Mono framework you should really take a look at the
latest version of the Mono handbook, it is starting to look really nice
thanks to the great contributions of community members like Johannes
Roith, Martin Willemoes Hansen and Pedro J. Cabrera 
Also of interest from the Mono world is a nice set of .net CORBA
bindings which probably will get assimilated into Mono. 

http://www.go-mono.com/tutorial/html/en/index.html
       
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012949.html

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15. GNOME interviews
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Various people in the GNOME community have been spreading the good word
again. Tigert and Jimmac was interviews by OpenForBusiness, Jeff Waugh
was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald and Havoc Penington was
interviews by osnews.com. 

        http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=213
        http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/21/1045638481419.html
        http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2997

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16. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 94 gnucash
 76 evolution
 52 gimp
 48 pan
 45 gnome-applets
 44 beast
 41 balsa
 37 gnome-panel
 34 nautilus
 31 sun-patches
 27 galeon
 26 libmrproject
 26 gnome-utils
 23 xmlsec
 21 epiphany
 21 acme
 20 red-carpet
 20 totem
 19 gucharmap
 19 gtkhtml
[141 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 79 menthos
 69 warlord (gnucash)
 45 aihana
 41 timj
 39 neo
 31 charles
 29 PeterB
 28 rodrigo
 28 joeshaw
 28 markmc
 26 fejj
 24 chema
 24 aleksey
 23 hadess
 23 kevinv
 22 alexl
 21 mitr
 19 chyla
 19 adrighem
 17 roozbeh
[146 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: 8568 (In the last week: New: 608, Resolved: 628,
Difference: 
-20)

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

  nautilus: 794 (In the last week: New: 39, Resolved: 49, Difference:
-10)
  gtk+: 561 (In the last week: New: 36, Resolved: 14, Difference: +22)
  galeon: 451 (In the last week: New: 78, Resolved: 67, Difference: +11)
  gnome-vfs: 255 (In the last week: New: 4, Resolved: 6, Difference: -2)
  gnome-panel: 223 (In the last week: New: 51, Resolved: 49, Difference:
+2)
  GIMP: 199 (In the last week: New: 13, Resolved: 38, Difference: -25)
  control-center: 156 (In the last week: New: 17, Resolved: 6,
Difference: +11)
  gnome-applets: 155 (In the last week: New: 16, Resolved: 109,
Difference: -93)
  GnuCash: 123 (In the last week: New: 18, Resolved: 11, Difference: +7)
  sawfish: 112 (In the last week: New: 3, Resolved: 0, Difference: +3)
  gnome-terminal: 104 (In the last week: New: 17, Resolved: 18,
Difference: -1)
  balsa: 103 (In the last week: New: 5, Resolved: 2, Difference: +3)
  libzvt: 93 (In the last week: New: 1, Resolved: 0, Difference: +1)
  medusa: 92 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0)
  glib: 85 (In the last week: New: 4, Resolved: 0, Difference: +4)
  
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: 
  
  kfv101 psu edu: 115 bugs closed.
  newren math utah edu: 56 bugs closed.
  yaneti declera com: 38 bugs closed.
  aldug astrolinux com: 36 bugs closed.
  sven gimp org: 33 bugs closed.
  mark skynet ie: 22 bugs closed.
  jfleck inkstain net: 20 bugs closed.
  charles rebelbase com: 20 bugs closed.
  tommi komulainen iki fi: 20 bugs closed.
  chris rebelbase com: 17 bugs closed.
  bill haneman sun com: 16 bugs closed.
  jap1 users sourceforge net: 11 bugs closed.
  hp redhat com: 11 bugs closed.
  hadess hadess net: 10 bugs closed.
  warlord MIT EDU: 10 bugs closed.
  
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18. New and Updated Software
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GIrDA  - GNOME ir monitor. A GNOME applet for monitoring IrDA devices.
Bakery  - C++ Framework for creating GNOME applications.
gtkmm2  - GTK+ C++ binding
gjots  - jotter
gmodconfig  - Linux kernel modules management tool
BEAST/BSE  - Synthesis/Audio Framework
gQueue  - Gnome frontend for cups queues
gedit  - Lightweight UTF-8 text editor
Themus  - Theme utilities
glunarclock  - moon phase applet
gDeskCal  - desktop calendar
GNOME System Tools  - System Configuration Utilities
gnome-db  - Database access for Gnome applications
GUI for emu-tools  - Gui for emu-tools
GPassGuard  - Securely store & encrypt your passwords
General GNOME User Documentation  - General GNOME User Documentation
GnuCash  - A personal finance manager
Workrave  - Workrave RSI prevention
PyGtkGLExt  - Python Binding for GtkGLExt
seti_applet  - seti home client monitor applet
Devhelp  - API docs browser
Phone Manager  - manage your mobile phone
Gnome Chemistry Utils  - chemical widgets for gnome-2
GChemPaint  - 2D chemical structures editor
Inti  - Integrated Foundation Classes
Inti-GConf  - An Inti binding for GConf
gThumb  - Image viewer and browser.
Quick Lounge  - Quick Launch for GNOME 2
Straw  - Desktop news aggregator
SquirrelFax  - Gnome Fax software
Balsa  - Gnome Mail Client
Tutka  - tracker style midi sequencer
rubrica  - address book, pim
Pan  - Usenet newsreader
gDeskCal  - desktop calendar
grdesktop  - grdesktop
Whale  - iPod Application
gmodconfig  - Linux kernel modules management tool
GNOME Commander  - file manager
COnfigurator for Gnome  - Edit advanced Gnome settings
MrProject  - Project management application
Sirius  - Othello game
Gnome Remote Connection Manager  - makes connecting to remote machines
easy
Skoosh  - Sliding tile puzzle

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

I know I know, I have been a slacker. But here the summaries are again
to cover the phase of GNOME 2 development codenamed; The big bumps are
gone, bring out the polish
. 
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller 
gnome-summary gnome org 
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