GNOME Summary Dec 15, 1999 - Jan 3, 2000: Miguel wins "Innovator of the Year," Linux Journal article on GNOME, interview with GNOME developers, call for packaging volunteers, GNOME Logo environment, CTWM support, Software: Balsa, BEAST/BSE, Dia, libxml, Sugar

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

This is the GNOME Summary for December 15, 1999 - January 3, 2000,
covering a long period of summary-maintainer-vacation. This summary 
lists over 50 new and updated applications.

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  Table of Contents
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 1)  Miguel wins "Innovator of the Year"
 2)  Linux Journal article
 3)  Developer interview
 4)  Packaging volunteers needed
 5)  GNOME frontend for Logo programming language
 6)  Balsa release
 7)  BEAST/BSE release
 8)  New Dia
 9)  CTWM support
 10)  New libxml
 11)  Experimental C++ wrapper, Sugar
 12)  Hacking Activity
 13)  New and Updated Software


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 1)  Miguel wins "Innovator of the Year"

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Miguel was previously named one of the Technology Review Top 100 Young
Innovators of the Year, but now he's been named _the_ Number One Young
Innovator of the Year. See the article here:

  http://www.techreview.com/tr100/pr2.html

news.gnome.org article is here, if you want to post comments, etc.:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/946478632/index_html

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 2)  Linux Journal article

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Some GNOME hackers (George, Elliot, Miguel) wrote up an article about
GNOME and future plans for Linux Journal; it's now made its way
online:

  http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue70/3754.html

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 3)  Developer interview

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Ali Abdin did an email interview with many GNOME developers, posted
here:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945331082/index_html

About a week later he posted more responses from some late-replying
developers:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/946276088/index_html

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 4)  Packaging volunteers needed

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We need volunteers for keeping GNOME packages up-to-date. Debian and
Red Hat packages have official maintainers (though both could maybe
use volunteer help, if you mail them); most of the other distributions,
as well as non-Linux distributions (*BSD, Solaris) need volunteers.

To work on GNOME packaging, sign up for the gnome-packaging-list
mailing list; you might have a look at the list archives as well.

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/

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 5)  GNOME frontend for Logo programming language

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Use GNOME to write Logo code! Fun and educational!

Seriously, this is a nice program for schools and such. Have a look:

  http://laguna.fmedic.unam.mx/~daniel/glogo/

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 6)  Balsa release

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The long-quiet Balsa project made a release:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945835198/index_html

Looking nice!

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 7)  BEAST/BSE release

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A sound synthesis engine and GUI from GTK+ co-maintainer Tim Janik. If
nothing else, an authoritative source of Correct GTK+ Programming
examples.:-) Personally I can't make heads or tails of all these
dials and buttons, but lots of people who know about sound have been
giving rave reviews. Read about it here:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/946616649/index_html

Quick screenshot link:

  http://beast.gtk.org/beast-shot1.png

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 8)  New Dia

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James announced a new Dia release:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/946131539/index_html

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 9)  CTWM support

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We have GNOME patches for the CTWM window manager:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945747290/index_html

Increasingly hard to think of a WM _without_ GNOME hints support. 

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 10)  New libxml

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New version of libxml, with better C++ compatibility and an improved
HTML parsing module.

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945534306/index_html

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 11)  Experimental C++ wrapper, Sugar

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I made a lightweight C++ wrapper prototype called Sugar (well, this is
sort of a second prototype; the first one was done by hand, this one
is script-generated). See announce here:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gtk-list/2000-January/0012.shtml

Feedback requested (please read the mailing list thread and the Sugar
README first though).

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 12)  Hacking Activity

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Module Score-O-Matic:
 (number of CVS commits per module, since the last summary)

 132 gimp
  98 gnumeric
  80 gnome-db
  78 nautilus
  68 libgtop
  60 balsa
  55 gtk--
  51 gnome-core
  49 gtkhtml
  46 galway
  46 beast
  40 gnomeicu
  37 gnome-libs
  33 dr-genius
  24 gnome-pim
  24 eider
  24 dia
  23 gnome-vfs
  21 eears
  20 achtung
  19 mc
  18 gob
  17 gxsnmp
  16 evolution

User Score-O-Matic:
 (number of CVS commits per user, since the last summary)

  79 martin
  76 rodrigo
  58 arios
  54 hp
  53 timj
  48 jirka
  45 unammx
  43 mmeeks
  42 sopwith
  41 kenelson
  36 neo
  32 kmaraas
  31 rasta
  31 ettore
  30 jwise
  30 cactus
  27 jody
  26 kabalak
  22 nilsb
  22 jrb
  21 jamesh
  19 mathieu
  19 darin
  18 mitch
  18 jesusb
  17 peterw
  17 mback
  16 sullivan
  15 yasuhiro
  15 pcg
  15 jpr
  15 jborg
  15 cwryu

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 13)  New and Updated Software

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Over 50 new software releases since the last summary!

screem - website editor
gnome-tcl - Tcl binding for GTK/GNOME
CORBA::ORBit - Perl bindings for CORBA (via ORBit, the GNOME ORB)
gvoc - vocabulary trainer
GNOME Particle Simulator - simulates particles
GnomePM - portfolio manager
Gnofract 4D - fractal generator
gBackground - changes window background
gob - GtkObject generation language
Oregano - circuit simulator
BEAST/BSE - sound engine and synthesizer GUI
vsa - displays cool graphs based on your sound output
SodiPodi - vector graphics program
Gnome ReadNews - yet another news client
graphtool - generate graphs and plots
gbox_applet - mailbox watcher
MonitorSensors - displays sensor data from lm_sensors
GPPP-dialer - PPP dialer app
Everybuddy - universal instant messaging client
gecco - GNOME extensible configuration console
PuzzleSquare - numbers game
gLife - game of Life
URL Collector - stores URLs
efx - xmms effect plugin loader for esound
RadioActive - video4Linux interface
Panel-- - C++ wrapper for panel applet lib
groach - return of xroach
GuiSlp - Stampede package manager
gMiniCppEnvironment - mini-IDE
Finder - Mac-style finder bar
GIP - GNOME install project
dia - tool for drawing diagrams
gnuTaxes - tax preparation application
GMatH - math environment
CCView - C++ project browser
GTransferManager - retrieve multiple files from the web
Gnome Darxite Client - Darxite client
GTetrinet - clone of Windows game Tetrinet
TimeClock - time clock program
GNOME Transcript - database client
Eucalyptus - Email client
VDKBuilder - GTK/GNOME RAD tool, in tradition of Delphi
GtkExText - enhanced text widget
gtkdiff - diff frontend
gnome-db - GNOME database library and widgets
Balsa - mail client
irssi - IRC client
ORBit-CPP - C++ bindings for ORBit
sawmill - nice window manager
m3gtk - Modula 3 bindings for GTK
GnomeICU - ICQ client
Sarah - simple file manager
GnomeHack - GUI for nethack (works great!)
gnome-8ball - magic 8 ball applet
CD changer applet - for your CD jukebox
gFTP - ftp client
galway - web page editor
gIPSC - subnet calculator

Gnumeric was released but not updated on the software map. ;-)

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