GNOME Summary Nov. 17-23 (XFCE compat, new GnomePixmap, TODO list,libglade/Python demo, GTK 1.4 drawing model)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

This is the GNOME Summary for  November 17-23, 1999.

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  Table of Contents
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 1)  XFCE interoperability
 2)  send TODO items to Elliot
 3)  article shows off libglade/Python
 4)  new GnomePixmap screenshots
 5)  new gEdit
 6)  GTK+ 1.4 drawing enhancements
 7)  Hacking Activity
 8)  New and Updated Software

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 1)  XFCE interoperability

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Apparently XFCE has new features to interoperate nicely with
GNOME. Basically this means that you can now choose either the GNOME
user environment (gmc, panel, etc.) or the XFCE user environment to go
with your applications built with the GNOME development framework.

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/943005993/index_html

I'm excited to see progress in this area; interoperability means more user
choice and better, more modular software. Remember that in the free
software world, more users means more developers. Monolithic software
(like the original Netscape codebase) falls flat on its face in part
because its components are only of interest to one application.

There's an article about it on Advogato:

  http://www.advogato.org/article/14.html

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 2)  send TODO items to Elliot

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Elliot is compiling a list of TODO items that we'd like to have
volunteers to work on. Mail ideas to sopwith@redhat.com.

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 3)  article shows off libglade/Python

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Reduce an 87-line program to 26 with libglade!

  http://www.baypiggies.org/10mintig.html

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 4)  new GnomePixmap screenshots

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In the development branch of gnome-libs we've been fooling with alpha
transparency and the gdk-pixbuf merge. The GnomePixmap widget has
changed a lot:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/942954792/index_html

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 5)  new gEdit

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A new gEdit is out:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/942966654/index_html

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 6)  GTK+ 1.4 drawing enhancements

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Lots of hacking on GTK+ proper lately; Owen has a master plan to fix
flicker during opaque resize and other multiple-redraw situations.
You can read about this here:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gtk-devel-list/1999-November/0073.shtml

This morning Owen's been working on replacing the pixmap theme engine
with a faster one based on gdk-pixbuf. This will be another GTK+ 1.4
feature.

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 7)  Hacking Activity

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

  62 gnumeric
  40 gimp
  32 gphotoweb
  30 entity
  25 gphoto
  18 balsa
  17 gnome-core
  16 gw-web
  15 gnome-libs
  13 gee
  12 libgtop
  12 gtk--
  12 gnome-docu
  12 gconf
  11 evolution
  10 gnome-applets

"gee" is new, it's an equation editor George is writing. 

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

  56 ole
  34 jirka
  31 unammx
  26 jgarzik
  21 kmaraas
  19 imain
  17 martin
  17 jrb
  15 sopwith
  13 pcg
  12 jody
  12 hp
  11 peterh
  11 mwimer
  11 glaurent
  10 pablo
  10 cactus
  10 arios

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 8)  New and Updated Software

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Finder - Mac-style finder bar
Atomix - mind game
Gseq - sequencer
Gfax - fax GUI
gFTP - ftp client
Pybliographer - bibliography database tool
ORBit-C++ - C++ bindings for ORBit
GProc-applet process list applet
GnOpenGL3ds - winner of Hardest Name to Type contest (3DS file viewer ;-)
Gmail - mail client
irssi - IRC client
GnomeICU - ICQ client
GIP - Gnome Install Project
gPhoto - digital camera tool (excellent application)
screem - web site creation tool
Electric Ears - audio player/editor
oregano - circuit editor/simulator
GuiSlp - GUI for Stampede Linux packages
POP Checker - mail check applet
Monitor Sensors - display sensor data from lm_sensors package
vsa - Visual Sound Analyzer applet
Gnome Transcript - SQL database client
GRAD - Delphi-style GUI builder
gEdit - text editor
gnoLyX - a LyX port
GnomeSensors - displays sensor data
Cloned Xunzip - gnomized Xunzip
libglade - loads XML GUI resource files and creates widgets
gno3dtet - 3D Tetris
gnommind - MasterMind
Bluefish - HTML editor
GMatH - math environment
Sarah - file manager
FireLoad Applet - shows flames corresponding to system load
gMessaging System - messaging system

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