Akira TAGOH of Red Hat Japan submitted a nice big patch to GNOME-print this weekend which adds support for TrueType fonts under GNOME print. Available is also a patch for Gnumeric. Hopefully this patch will make it into the next gnome-print release.
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gnome-print/2001-August/000766.html
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-print
Not so long ago the GNOME Foundation board took the initiative to get the developers of different projects to do status reports on their projects from time to time in order to help improve project co-ordination and get greater synergy-effects. The SashXB project was first out. Now Marco Pesenti Gritti of the Galeon project follows up with a status report on the Galeon project. Below you find the link to the Galeon report and the GNOME feature archive. Also since I know you are going to ask about Ximian packages of Galeon, well they are underway, in the meantime Peter Teichman has made some Ximian preview packages for Red Hat 7.1 available.
http://developer.gnome.org/feature/current/
http://primates.ximian.com/~peter/gconf/
Seth Nickel, lead developer on the Useability task team, have writen an article on why developers should care about useability. Interesting article which well illustrates useability why useability issues are important.
http://developer.gnome.org/feature/archive/usability/
Steve Crouse made his code for Mozstreamer available this week. Mozstreamer is a Mozilla plugin which is built on top of GStreamer. This means that Linux and Mozilla finally gets a multimedia plugin that supports most of the available video and audio formats in use on the web today (A list which got a little longer today as JJérémy SIMON submited his new mikmod plugin for gstreamer.) Thanks goes to OEone Corporation for letting Steve work on Mozstreamer and GStreamer as part of his work for them.
Since our last summary the Abiword team have done two more releases, 0.9.1 and 0.9.2. The bug killing hunt in preparation for 1.0 continues. The goal is to have a 1.0 release with no known segfault bugs, so please submit good bug reports and test cases to help Abiword reach 1.0. Also in the cool Abiword news department is the work done by OEone on embeding Abiword into Mozilla. Below you find a link to the mail from Mike Potter of OEone which includes a link to a screenshot showing this beauty. Links below to the mail from OEone and to the Abiword homepage.
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/August/0323.html
Freeos.com had a review of the GAIM instant messaging application which allows users to connect to the AOL Instant messenger service. The review concludes that GAIM is even better than the original AOL client. Canada Computes gives top score to Galeon in their Linux browser comparison, fun this is that the major critisim of Galeon is how the GUI looks, guess the reviewer must have missed that this is completly themeable in Galeon and with lots of themes included, even one for CmdrTaco :).
http://www.freeos.com/articles/4362/
http://www.canadacomputes.com/v3/story/1,1017,7178,00.html?tag=81&sb=79
Jeffrey Morgan announced the 0.6.1 release of Java-GNOME. Java-GNOME is a nice set of Java Bindings for GTK+ and GNOME. Jeffrey also promised that a 0.7.0 release would be available soon which can be compiled using the new Gcj compiler into native code.
http://news.gnome.org/997878977/index_html
http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net
What do you do when all the easy problems are uncovered and you need to get at the hard ones? Well, if you are lucky you get Alan Cox to debug your application. The application that got his attention this time was Nautilus. Alan posted a long mail with his findings something which lead to others quickly producing patches to fix the problems Alan uncovered. Thanks goes to Alan and the Nautilus hackers. Other cool news on the Nautilus front is all the great work on Nautilus done by the Red Hat hackers. If you thought that Red Hat was only for the server and not for the desktop I promise you that you will change your mind when you see Red Hat 7.2, with the cool Nautilus system integration being the icing on the cake. Below you find a link to Alans initial mail to the Nautilus list.
http://lists.eazel.com/pipermail/nautilus-list/2001-August/004978.html
The GNOME summary is being translated into Spanish, Hungarian and now also French. Translations are usually available shortly after the release of the summary in english. Since this summary covers the last two weeks the first of the CVS stats cover the period from 4th to 11th august and the second cover the period from the 11th to the 18th.
http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/
http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/
http://www.gynov.org/gnome-summary/
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