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GNOME Summary for 2003-01-04 - 2003-01-18

This is the GNOME Summary for 2003-01-04 - 2003-01-18
    
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Table of Contents
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1. GNOME 2.2 Desktop Release Candidate 1
2. Abiword 2.0 release plan
3. Sodipodi and Gimp tutorials
4. Eazel to be ressurected?
5. GNOME for handhelds
6. New page for i18n statistics
7. How to localize
8. Java Swing and Gtk+ Integration
9. First screenshots of Evolution for GNOME2
10. GNOME for Solaris Accessibility Guide V2.1
11. Friends of GNOME program
12. Updated look of Bluecurve in Red Hat
13. Mono gets more gtk# applications
14. Metathemes finally
15. Nautilus CD burner screenshots
16. Eclipse now compiles with gcj
17. Translated GNOME summaries
18. Hacker Activity
19. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
20. New and Updated Software

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1. GNOME 2.2 Desktop Release Candidate 1
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GNOME 2.2 is just about 2 weeks away. In preparation for this the first
release candidate was released last week. Lots of updated packages this
week due to the developers being in bugfix mode, fighting of those hard
to find bugs that eats development time like a black hole eats light. 
        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2003-January/msg00031.html

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2. Abiword 2.0 release plan
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Dominic Lachowicz posted a release plan for Abiword 2.0 to the Abiword 
development list. It includes both a timeline and expected feature set
for the upcoming Abiword release. Included updates are of course use of
Gtk+ 2.0 and GNOME 2.0, tables and XFT fonts, but also interesting
things like an OpenOffice importer/exporter and even obscure things like
barbarisms :). 
       
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2003/Jan/0249.html

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3. Sodipodi and Gimp tutorials
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GNOME has some really nice graphics applications, but as with everything
powerfull it can be hard to learn to use it. Luckily there are people
out there willing to help us out by writing nice tutorials. For instance
Nathan Hurst written a nice tutorial showing how to create a skyline in
Sodipodi. Another article is interest is from Linux Journal who recently
published an article showing how to remove red-eye with the Gimp. In the
article, LJ presents a Gimp script by Martin Guldahl that implements the
technique in the article 
        
http://hawthorn.csse.monash.edu.au/~njh/programming/drawing-packages/sodipodi/
       
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6567&mode=thread&order=0

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4. Eazel to be ressurected?
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Michael Dell, chairman of Dell, is interviewed about Linux on the
desktop by pcAdvisor. In the interview the following is said: 'He says
that rumours hinting the company is still willing to back the now
defunct Eazel are true, and this is reflected in the company's support
for Linux on the server side and also in education and scientific
markets.' Is this hinting that a deal to bring Eazel back to life is in
the making? If so the question is how the GNOME community would deal
with that. Nautilus is currently being maintained by Alex Larsson of Red
Hat and Dave Camp of Ximian, and they are doing a pretty good good of it
too if you ask me. 

Another question would be who would be part of a new Eazel. Andy
Hertzfeldt is currently involved with Mitch Kapor and his Open Source
Applications Foundation. Bart Decreem is working for Hancom. Darin Adler
is currently contracted by Apple to work on Safari a project which also
some of the other former Eazel employees are involved with. 

If anyone out there know if Eazel might actually be returning or if
pcAdvisor simply mis-quoted Michel Dell, please mail me so we can bring
more on this in the next GNOME summary 

        http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/index.cfm?go=news.view&news=3024

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5. GNOME for handhelds
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I might have mentioned this before, but I it is good enough to bear
mentioning again. Handhelds.org is hosting the development of a palmtop
environment called GPE which aims of creating a handhelds system based
on Gtk+ and GNOME libraries. Lots of nice applications including a small
media player based on GStreamer. 

        http://gpe.handhelds.org/

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6. New page for i18n statistics
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Carlos Perelló Marín has made a new webpage which displays statistics
over GNOME translations. It looks really nice and will let you get a
quick overview over the status of the translations. A quick look at it
tells me the Scots Gaelic translators need to get working :) 

        http://www.gnome-db.org/~gnome-i18n/

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7. How to localize
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Localization of Unix software can be a bit confusing for new developers.
Christian Rose has writen the L10N Guidelines for Developers. This very
nice document will introduce you to the world of Unix localization and
the tools the GNOME community has created to make this even easier. The
document is not yet finished, but already contains some nice
information. 

        http://www.menthos.com/l10n/developer/

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8. Java Swing and Gtk+ Integration
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Bill Haneman, Sun's well known accessibility hacker, mailed the
java-gnome list this week with some information on Java 1.5 and its Gtk+
integration. Since the sourceforge archives are late at updating I
thought I bring you his full statement here. 

What 1.5. will do is _emulate_ the gtk+ default engine, including the
engine's themability. So in 1.5 Swing will match the current gtk+ theme
and system font size, etc. provided the theme uses either the default
engine or something similar. For instance the themes currently in
gnome-themes (which will be part of the GNOME 2.2 release) should all
work well with 1.5's Swing (and reports are that 
they do). But if you install a totally different gtk+ engine, your
results may vary. As long as the gtk+ theme in question continues to use
the standard gtk+ RC file format, results should be pretty good, except
for possibly things like bevels versus radius if widget borders, etc. 
So the 1.5 solution is not all-inclusive but it will work for a wide
variety of GNOME/GTK+ themes including the 'standard' GNOME-2.2 ones. 

        http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/

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9. First screenshots of Evolution for GNOME2
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Our friends at spanish GNOME site Noticias Gnome Hispano has put up some
screnshots of the in development GNOME 2 version of Evolution. Hopefully
it will not be to long before Ximian feels it is ready for a first
beta/test release. Also included is a nice Evolution for GNOME 2
screenshot from Dave Camp. 

       
http://perso.wanadoo.es/jorge.criado/shots/evolution_prefs_16012003.png
        
http://perso.wanadoo.es/jorge.criado/shots/evolution_contactos_16012003.png
       
http://perso.wanadoo.es/jorge.criado/shots/evolution_mailer_16012003.png
        
http://perso.wanadoo.es/jorge.criado/shots/evolution_resumen_16012003.png
       
http://primates.ximian.com/~dave/screenshots/Screenshot-Evolution.png
        http://noticias.es.gnome.org/


 http://www.gnome.org/learn
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10. GNOME for Solaris Accessibility Guide V2.1
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Irene Ryan has published the latest version of the GNOME for Solaris 
Accessibility Guide. This guide is mostly generic with only a small
percentage of Solaris-specific information. The guide is aimed at users,
system administrators, and anyone who is interested in how the GNOME 2.0
desktop satisfies Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act. The manual
contains the sections; Introduction to accessibility in the GNOME
desktop, How to configure the mouse and keyboard to make these devices
accessible to more users, How to navigate the desktop from the keyboard
only and How to change the appearance of the desktop to enhance the
accessibility of the desktop for users with visual 
impairments. You find this wonderful document from Irene at the link
below. 

        http://www.gnome.org/learn

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11. Friends of GNOME program
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One of the things the GNOME board is focusing on this year is
fundraising so that they can pay for more in-person events, and
subsidize more hacker travel and hardware for needy hackers. In the past
we've been lucky to have wealthy and generous corporate sponsors, but
this year corporations are very tight-fisted, so we have to rely more
and more on individual contributions. 

We have the Friends of GNOME mechanism (www.gnome.org/friends) to allow 
individuals to make contributions to the foundation. So far it's been
pretty succesful - we raised about USD 5000 (20% of the cost of GUADEC)
from the last slashdotting. But every contrinbution is important; even
$5 makes a difference in being able to send another hacker to GUADEC for
instance. I really encourage everyone to take a serious look at the
friends of GNOME program and contribute (you even get some nice GNOME
items). 
GUADEC is an essential part of the GNOME community in regards to team
building, co-ordination and motivation and being able to sponsor our
volunteer hackers, many students, to enable them to come is central to
the future success of GNOME. In light of this I hope no-one would mind
that I am putting a small link to the friends of GNOME program at the
bottom of the summaries from here on, to help remind people to give a
little when they can. 

        http://www.gnome.org/friends/

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12. Updated look of Bluecurve in Red Hat
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Red Hat has updated their default Bluecurve theme. The new version
includes a new stock item theme. If you look at the screenshot linked
you will see that the icons in the toolbars are different. 

        http://www.gnome.org/~kenneth/ny-redhat-stil.png
        http://www.gnome.org/~kenneth/NewBluecurveStyle.png

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13. Mono gets more gtk# applications
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Miguel de Icaza sent out a screenshot showing a new doc browser made
using Mono called Monodoc. So now even C Sharp hackers can view their
docs :). Martin Baulig also released a new version of his Mono debugger,
so no there is no excuse for bugs in Mono applications. Screenshots
below. 

        http://www.gnome.org/~kenneth/monodoc.png
        
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-docs-list/2003-January/000301.html
        http://www.gnome.org/~kenneth/Mono-Debugger.png

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14. Metathemes finally
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We have waited a long time for a working Metatheme system and it seems
the time for one has come. Seth Nickell has put together a set of themes
and Jonathan Blandford has made a nice metatheme chooser. While
metathemes will be the primary themeing method it will still be possible
to select windowmanager and GTK+ themes individually to easily create
your own combinations. Screenshot of new theme chooser below. 

        http://www.gnome.org/~seth/themes.png

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15. Nautilus CD burner screenshots
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I mentioned the Nautilus CD burner in an earlier summary, but didn't
include any screenshots. Well the wait is over. Thanks to Johannes we
have a nice pair of shots for you this week. 

        http://www.sport-huettn.de/gnome/burn1.png
        http://www.sport-huettn.de/gnome/burn2.png

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16. Eclipse now compiles with gcj
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I mentioned in a earlier summary Eclipse, the IDE from IBM which use
Gtk+ 2.0. Well it can now be a 100% free application as it now can be
compiled using the GNU Java compiler, gcj. For instructions and some
nice screenshots visit the link below. 

        http://www.klomp.org/mark/gij_eclipse/

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17. 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/gnome-summary/gnome_summary.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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18. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 115 gnucash
 91 gnome-2.0-test-specs
 87 evolution
 47 nautilus
 45 gtk+
 39 totem
 37 balsa
 35 gimp
 33 seahorse
 32 gnome-panel
 32 stickynotes_applet
 30 gnome-themes
 30 libgda
 27 acme
 27 gtkhtml
 26 epiphany
 24 gnome-system-tools
 24 libgnomeprint
 23 gnome-control-center
 23 gnomemeeting
[144 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 91 anand
 72 yacob
 66 warlord (gnucash)
 62 minmax
 61 peterisk
 51 menthos
 50 rodrigo
 48 hampton (gnucash)
 41 cneumair
 34 hadess
 32 loban
 29 adrighem
 28 alexl
 26 jap1
 25 pablo
 24 ettore
 23 gman
 23 jdub
 23 PeterB
 22 pablodc
[153 active hackers omitted]


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19. 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: 7779 (In the last week: New: 757, Resolved: 598,
Difference: 
+159)

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

  nautilus: 728 (In the last week: New: 86, Resolved: 71, Difference:
+15)
  gtk+: 518 (In the last week: New: 25, Resolved: 22, Difference: +3)
  galeon: 423 (In the last week: New: 76, Resolved: 51, Difference: +25)
  gnome-vfs: 258 (In the last week: New: 10, Resolved: 6, Difference:
+4)
  GIMP: 232 (In the last week: New: 11, Resolved: 17, Difference: -6)
  gnome-applets: 207 (In the last week: New: 36, Resolved: 11,
Difference: +25)
  gnome-panel: 152 (In the last week: New: 64, Resolved: 56, Difference:
+8)
  control-center: 116 (In the last week: New: 17, Resolved: 22,
Difference: -5)
  gnome-core: 107 (In the last week: New: 9, Resolved: 9, Difference: 0)
  sawfish: 104 (In the last week: New: 14, Resolved: 2, Difference: +12)
  metacity: 98 (In the last week: New: 17, Resolved: 9, Difference: +8)
  libzvt: 93 (In the last week: New: 1, Resolved: 0, Difference: +1)
  medusa: 92 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0)
  balsa: 82 (In the last week: New: 7, Resolved: 14, Difference: -7)
  gnome-terminal: 75 (In the last week: New: 21, Resolved: 16,
Difference: +5)
  
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: 
  
  aldug astrolinux com: 102 bugs closed.
  yaneti declera com: 50 bugs closed.
  newren math utah edu: 27 bugs closed.
  mark skynet ie: 21 bugs closed.
  daniel veillard com: 20 bugs closed.
  hp redhat com: 20 bugs closed.
  vincent vuntz net: 19 bugs closed.
  Uraeus linuxrising org: 19 bugs closed.
  rodrigo gnome-db org: 18 bugs closed.
  jirka 5z com: 16 bugs closed.
  warlord MIT EDU: 14 bugs closed.
  otaylor redhat com: 13 bugs closed.
  jfleck inkstain net: 12 bugs closed.
  chema celorio com: 12 bugs closed.
  sven gimp org: 11 bugs closed.
  
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20. New and Updated Software
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TiLP - Ti Linking Program  - TexasInstruments graphing calculators
Gnome Configurator Preferences  - New editor for GConf
gtkVUMeter  - a VU Meter widget for gtk+
Drivel LiveJournal Client  - LiveJournal client
Lumiere  - Gnome movie player
grdesktop  - grdesktop
Pan  - Usenet newsreader
gob  - GObject Builder
Sticky Notes  - Sticky Notes for the Gnome Desktop
stylus printers control  - nozzle check,head cleaning, for stylus
LostIRC  - A simple IRC client.
g2ding  - Gtk2 ding (dictionary) clone
gnocl  - A GTK+ / Gnome extension for Tcl
rubrica  - address book, pim
guinstaller  - Installation Assistant
GNOME EDMA IDFWIzard  - Build basic skeletons fortheir GNU EDMA Classes
GNOME EDMA ClassBrowser  - Inspect the GNU/EDMA classesregistred in your
system.
Pluggable Image Generator  - Pluggable Image Generator
gsoftpad  - Portable Application Description PAD
gnome-utils  - Collection of small applications.
gdm  - GNOME Display Manager
Dr. Genius  - Geometry Sofware
GTetrinet  - Tetrinet client for GNOME
gQueue  - Gnome frontend for cups queues
GChemPaint  - 2D chemical structures editor
GTK-Lsof  - GTK 2 GUI for Lsof
General GNOME User Documentation  - General GNOME User Documentation
GHex  - A binary file editor.
Dr. Genius  - Geometry Sofware
Gringotts  - An electronic strongbox for data
gThumb  - Image viewer and browser.
gedit  - Lightweight UTF-8 text editor
GUNit  - C unit testing framework
Additional GNOME Themes  - Additional GNOME Themes
gnome-utils  - Collection of small applications
GnuCash  - A personal finance manager
File Roller  - archive manager.
Straw  - Desktop news aggregator
Genius  - Programable calculator

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

A special thanks to Kenneth Christiansen for helping out with this weeks
Summary.This is yet another bi-weekly summary so I guess if this
continues I have to ask for the statistics to be changed into bi-weekly
stastistics instead :)
 
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller 
gnome-summary gnome org 

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Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>
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