GNOME Summary Nov 23-Dec 1: Widget repository, Business 2.0 article, GtkHTML screenshots, Sawmill news, Helix Code, GNOME Office web pages

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

This is the GNOME Summary for November 23 - December 1, 1999.

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 1)  Widget Repository Created
 2)  Business 2.0 Magazine Mention
 3)  sawmill.themes.org goes live
 4)  New Sawmill
 5)  Helix Code guys have activity logs
 6)  GNOME Office Web Pages and Name Change
 7)  GtkHTML Screenshots
 8)  Hacking Activity
 9)  New and Updated Software

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 1)  Widget Repository Created

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A widget repository for widgets and other hunks of GTK/GNOME code is
an often-requested feature. Now we have one set up; see:

  http://developer.gnome.org/tools/repo/

Please submit your widgets!

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 2)  Business 2.0 Magazine Mention

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Business 2.0 magazine mentioned GNOME in one of those
"overstated/underrated" articles. Notable because it's an article in a
business magazine, not a computer magazine:
 
  http://www.business2.com/articles/1999/11/content/technology_3.html

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 3)  sawmill.themes.org goes live

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Themes for Sawmill are now just a click away:

  http://sawmill.themes.org

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 4)  New Sawmill

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John Harper normally releases Sawmill every Monday like clockwork; but
converting his Lisp interpreter to lexical scoping and changing all
the window manager code accordingly made him miss (only) a week or
two. The guy is a coding machine.

Anyway, a new Sawmill is out, and the lexical scoping allows themes to
be "sandboxed" and made relatively safe; Trojan horse themes shouldn't
be a danger with the latest version.

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

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 5)  Helix Code guys have activity logs

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If you're a fan of Alan Cox's diary you might enjoy the diaries of
some of the Helix Code (formerly International GNOME Support)
employees, look here:

  http://www.nuclecu.unam.mx/~miguel/activity-log.html

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 6)  GNOME Office Web Pages and Name Change

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Miguel posted a request-for-assistance with new GNOME Office web
pages. Also, we are renaming it from GNOME Workshop to GNOME Office
because no one could figure out that we had an office suite with the
GNOME Workshop name. Blame the media!

Here's the request-for-assistance:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-November/0880.shtml

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 7)  GtkHTML Screenshots

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Massive hacking on the GtkHTML module; check out these screenshots:

  http://info.stjerneskolan.com/gnome/gtkhtml/
 
Anders and Ettore are doing a great job with this widget.

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 8)  Hacking Activity

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Module Score-O-Matic:
 (number of CVS commits per module, during this week)

  53 gimp
  44 entity
  38 gnumeric
  32 gtk--
  27 gnome-core
  27 balsa
  26 web-devel-2
  26 gtkhtml
  25 bonobo
  23 gnome-utils
  20 pybliographer
  19 libgtop
  19 gnome-libs
  19 evolution
  18 glade--
  17 bonobo-doc
  16 panel--
  15 galway
  14 bug-buddy
  12 mc
  12 gnome-docu

User Score-O-Matic:
 (number of CVS commits per user, during this week)

  42 unammx
  26 pablo
  24 hp
  23 imain
  21 mwimer
  21 jrb
  20 fredgo
  19 neo
  19 christof
  18 mmeeks
  18 kenelson
  18 cactus
  17 mathieu
  17 ettore
  17 dietmar
  16 sopwith
  16 martin
  16 jody
  16 jberkman
  15 arios
  14 rasta
  13 jirka  
  12 philipd
  12 kodis
  12 kmaraas
  12 jcape
  12 cgabriel

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 9)  New and Updated Software

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Eucalyptus - email client
db_designer - Merise diagram db designer
gPopUp - SAMBA message program
Pygmy - email client written in Python
bug-buddy - bug report wizard
gnome_dialup - PPP utility
Gnome Toaster - CD creation suite
Pan - newsreader
GnomeSensors - dock application
sawmill - nice window manager for GNOME
GSwitchIt - Xkb state indicator for the panel
LED Counter - counts things (applet)
DPS-FTP - ftp client
gEdit - text editor
Merlin's CPU Fire Applet - shows flames corresponding to system load
irssi - IRC client
wmG - small GTK based window manager
Finder - Mac-style finder bar
vsa - visual sound analyzer applet
GMatH - math environment
GProc-applet - process list
EasyASP - ASP web development
galway - nice web editor

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