The great Gnumeric spreadsheet has been deemed ready for its big 1.0 release by its authors and userbase. Being cleaned of bugs and having gotten things like Graph support it is now ready for mass consumption. So if you want to try out the worlds best and most free spreadsheet application visit the website and read the release announcement and start downloading. Many kudos to the Gnumeric team for their great effort.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-December/msg00032.html
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric
A new development release of the very cool Metatheme package is available. For those of you who don't know Metatheme can I tell you that it is a GNOME Control Center capplet which lets you choose integrated themes for the whole desktop. This means that instead of having to change everything separatly like today, you have the option of using premade collections of themes to get that nice integrated look for your desktop. Currently has support for themes for Sawfish, GTK+, XMMS and background images.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-December/msg00025.html
Mikael Hallendal and Richard Hult, two of the fantastic hackers at CodeFactory has started a series of articles on IBM developerworks about GNOME 2.0 development. The first great installment is already up so make sure to read these. And start hacking your GNOME2.0 based application tomorow.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-gnome1/?t=grgn,p=GTK2
Mike Kestner, maintainer of the GTK+ C# bindings wrote a status report a few days ago. It details the current status of the bindings and the issues currently being worked on. With the Mono C# compiler now being able to compile itself, it really looks like 2002 will be the year when C# becomes an option for people wanting to develop GNOME applications. Who knows, maybe Mike even reincarnate Achtung in C# :)
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html
They say the best just keep getting better and that is certainly true for Galeon, technologyreview.org has a review of this fan favourite application and once again Galeon gets a big thumbs up. Congrats to the Galeon dudes.
http://technologyreview.org:8080/reviews/computer_soft/galeon1.0.2
Chema Celorio is working on yet another Ximian Setup Tool, this time it is the DHCP server's turn to get a nice graphical configuration tool. Talking about Chema, I would also like to give a special thanks to Chema from the GNOME summary team for all his contributions to the Summary last year, keep up the good work dude. Oh, and of course we have a screenshot of Chema's new creation.
http://www.gnome.org/~chema/dhcpd.png
The world can apparently never get enough of the Evolution groupware client. This time a big group of hackers let themselves be photographed with messages of their experiences, feelings and dreams for this application. Don't miss this parade of celebrities in new and exiciting positures.
http://gnome.org/~jdub/evolution/
The Anjuta2 Integrated Development Environment is being ported to GNOME2 as we speak. Jeroen Zwartepoorte posted a message telling us that the gnome-build component is now ready and ported. Another nice Anjuta2 addition is Gustavo M. Giráldez new layout management dialog. Check out the 2 announcements which both include nice screenshots.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devtools/2002-January/msg00001.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devtools/2001-December/msg00013.html
The popular ftp client developed by Brian Masney, gftp, has seen a new release recently. As which such a mature application most new additions are bugfixes and other small fixes, but the last few releases also support compiling with GTK+ 2.0. So if you want a ftp client for your GNOME2 desktop just compile with '--enable-gtk20'.
As always we have translations of the GNOME summaries available. So linked below are French translation, Spanish translation and Hungarian translation. If there are other translations available please let us know.
http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4
http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/
http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
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Ok, Christmas vaction over and a new summary out for your enjoyment. Remember that if you feel some projects out there don't get the attention from the summaries that they should, please mail us with a story idea. I think 95% of all submission we have gotten have been included so the chance of getting your story printed is quite high.
Christian
gnome-summary@gnome.org