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GNOME Summary for 2002-10-13 - 2002-10-19

This is the GNOME Summary for 2002-10-13 - 2002-10-19
    
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Table of Contents
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1. Sodipodi to the people
2. GNOME Print joins the fontconfig family
3. GNOME Media start getting GStreamer love
4. GnuCash releases first alpha towards 1.8.0 release
5. Network Neighbourhood anyone?
6. Interview with Havoc Pennington and Owen Taylor
7. Batch of GStremaer news
8. New Gnomemeeting on the way
9. Translated GNOME summaries
10. Hacker Activity
11. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
12. New and Updated Software

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1. Sodipodi to the people
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The summary has brought you lot of cool news of SVG support in GNOME
increasing heavily in the last few weeks. One of the applications that
should not go unmentioned in such a context is Sodipodi. Sodipodi has
become a very nice vector drawing tool and Lauris Kaplinski has been
working a lot on it lately. And as any such tool should it use SVG as
its native fileformat. Sodipodi 0.27 was recently released so be sure to
check it out. As for a GNOME 2 port of Sodipodi, well Lauris has said he
start on that as soon as GNOME 2 is more widely available, which should
be imminent with both Red Hat and Mandrake having shipped it and Collin
Walters just having created GNOME 2 upgrade scripts for Debian. 

        http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/index.php3

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2. GNOME Print joins the fontconfig family
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Tambet Ingo has been helping Chema Celerio on hacking on gnome-print the
last few weeks. One of the major patches he has contributed is making
gnome-print use Keith Packards new fontconfig library which means a big
step forward it getting our print and screen display systems integrated.
Thanks to this and other great efforts in the GNOME community GNOME 2.2
should be using fontconfing all over meaning a huge step forward in
usability and the end of having to install the same fonts 10 different
places for everything to be able to take advantage of it. Thanks to
everyone involved. 

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3. GNOME Media start getting GStreamer love
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Iain Holmes, maintainer of the GNOME Media package wrote in and told us
that he has ported the GNOME Sound Recorder application in GNOME
Multimedia to use GStreamer. One of the advantages of this port is that
the GNOME Sound recorder application now actually works well. Since
GStreamer supports LADSPA plugins, next on Iain's todo list is to allow
you to apply LADSPA (ladspa.org) sound effects to the sounds you record.
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4. GnuCash releases first alpha towards 1.8.0 release
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Chris Lyttle wrote in with the following message for us: ' The GnuCash
team is pleased to announce the release of alpha version 1.7.1. This is
the first release as we begin the journey to stable version 1.8.0. We
have lots of bugfixes and new features in this release and would like as
much testing and bug reporting as possible. Please report problems to
bugzilla.gnome.org. If you feel the need to speak to us or even just to
encourage us to move forward on the next major version please either
join the mailing list or come on irc.gnome.org and chat with us in the
#gnucash channel.' 

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5. Network Neighbourhood anyone?
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Bastien Nocera, who recently became a Red Hat employee, has made another
cool patch for GNOME 2. This time he has implemented a very nice gui for
setting up access to network disks under GNOME. Check out the screenshot
to see this beauty in action. 

        http://www.hadess.net/files/shots/18-07-2002.3.jpg

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6. Interview with Havoc Pennington and Owen Taylor
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Two of our most central GNOME hackers Havoc and Owen where interviewed
recently on OSNEWS by Eugenia Loli-Queru. Many interesting topics are
covered like future plans and the much discussed Qt and Gtk+ integration
effort in Red Hat 8.0. 

        http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1901&page=1

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7. Batch of GStremaer news
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Andy Wingo, one of the core GStreamer developers, managed to get the
first real release of the Gstreamer Pipeline editor out last week. The
editor will let you assemble and play GStreamer pipelines graphically
and is a wonderful development tool. Thanks goes to Andy for this, and
best wishes as he has now left for a two year math teaching assignment
in Africa, for the Peace Corps. There are other developments in
GStreamer too, like a new icecast2 plugin, a new wavencoder and finally
a proper website for Gnonlin, our non-linear video 
editing library. 

        http://www.gstreamer.net/apps/gst-editor/
        http://gnonlin.sourceforge.net

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8. New Gnomemeeting on the way
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A new version of everyones favourite video conferencing tool GNOME
Meeting is coming soon. New features in this release includes support
for the Speex codec, option to see both local and remote video at the
same time, bilinear interpolation on displayed pictures and support for
the GNOME 2/freedesktop.org system tray. 

        http://www.gnomemeeting.org/

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9. 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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10. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 140 gnucash
 55 sun-patches
 55 mc
 45 gnumeric
 38 gtkmm-root
 37 gnomemeeting
 36 gtk+
 28 gtkhtml
 28 gnome-panel
 28 evolution
 25 glade
 24 sodipodi
 24 metacity
 23 gnome-utils
 22 rhythmbox
 20 gimp
 20 eog
 18 glib
 17 vte
 15 dia
[119 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 82 warlord (gnucash)
 48 mmclouglin
 43 proskin
 30 kmaraas
 29 daniel
 25 damon
 24 mortenw
 24 bansz
 23 owen
 21 lewing
 21 murrayc
 20 dsandras
 20 veillard
 19 michael
 19 jody
 19 fejj
 18 hp
 18 nalin
 18 tajima
 16 jirka
[129 active hackers omitted]


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11. 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: 7902 (In the last week: New: 685, Resolved: 799,
Difference: 
-114)

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

  nautilus: 880 (In the last week: New: 49, Resolved: 35, Difference:
+14)
  gtk+: 533 (In the last week: New: 29, Resolved: 52, Difference: -23)
  galeon: 360 (In the last week: New: 90, Resolved: 66, Difference: +24)
  gnome-vfs: 300 (In the last week: New: 5, Resolved: 0, Difference: +5)
  GIMP: 284 (In the last week: New: 7, Resolved: 3, Difference: +4)
  gnome-applets: 236 (In the last week: New: 17, Resolved: 9,
Difference: +8)
  control-center: 146 (In the last week: New: 28, Resolved: 78,
Difference: -50)
  gnome-panel: 135 (In the last week: New: 51, Resolved: 52, Difference:
-1)
  sawfish: 115 (In the last week: New: 5, Resolved: 2, Difference: +3)
  balsa: 115 (In the last week: New: 14, Resolved: 3, Difference: +11)
  gnome-core: 106 (In the last week: New: 24, Resolved: 140, Difference:
-116)
  gnome-pilot: 102 (In the last week: New: 7, Resolved: 1, Difference:
+6)
  medusa: 94 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0)
  libzvt: 84 (In the last week: New: 6, Resolved: 5, Difference: +1)
  GnuCash: 83 (In the last week: New: 34, Resolved: 21, Difference: +13)
  
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: 
  
  kmaraas gnome org: 212 bugs closed.
  yaneti declera com: 60 bugs closed.
  bill haneman sun com: 42 bugs closed.
  otaylor redhat com: 38 bugs closed.
  dkennedy tinytoad com: 28 bugs closed.
  jfleck inkstain net: 27 bugs closed.
  vincent vuntz net: 22 bugs closed.
  mark skynet ie: 21 bugs closed.
  jody gnome org: 20 bugs closed.
  hp redhat com: 19 bugs closed.
  daniel veillard com: 18 bugs closed.
  sandmann daimi au dk: 18 bugs closed.
  dsandras seconix com: 15 bugs closed.
  ccevans cox net: 15 bugs closed.
  jaka gnu org: 14 bugs closed.
  
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12. New and Updated Software
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gcompressor  - compression decompression utility
Tenes Empanadas Graciela  - a clone of a Risk clone
GRot13  - Rot13 GUI interface
gtkmm2  - GTK+ C++ binding
Gnometab  - guitar tablature editor
hdate applet  - hebrew date applet
galculator  - GTK2 based scientific calculator
ggv  - PostScript previewer
gpostman  - Mail Notifier
gnetmd  - Sony NetMD Tool.
GTetrinet  - Tetrinet client for GNOME
gnome-crystal  - light model visualizer for crystal structures
Emphetamine  - Download Manager for GNOME
Quick Lounge  - Quick Launch for GNOME 2
Pan  - Usenet newsreader
gedit  - Lightweight UTF-8 text editor
GNOME Accessibility Themes  - Accessibility Themes
Straw  - Desktop news aggregator
File Roller  - File Roller is an archive manager
gnomeradio  - FM-Radio Tuner App
protagonist  - gui frontend for libxmldb.
Baculator  - RPN calculator

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

And the GNOME 2.2 juggernaut picks up more steam... 
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller 
gnome-summary gnome org
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