Calum Benson announced the availability of the results of the Sun useability tests this week. By putting non-technical people in front of GNOME and making notes of their progress trying to use GNOME they have put togeheter a document which will help us improve Gnome's usability. Developers wanting to help out with these issues, but who are new to GNOME should join the gnome-love mailing-list for instructions on how to proceed.
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/ut1_report/
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-love/index.html
Paolo Casarini has been working the last 6 months on Gdome2 as his Computer Science thesis. Well he has now graduated and his work on Gdome2 has been awarded as the best thesis of this semester. Also of importance is that Paolo will get married soon, so double congratulations to Paolo! Gdome2 is an implementation of the W3C DOM specification using libxml.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdome/2001-July/msg00006.html
Miguel de Icaza and Ximian announced the Mono project which aims at implementing part of the .net platform for Linux and GNOME. This comes as the result of Miguel having worked on a C# compiler for linux for quite some time now. If successful, this project could in the future go a long way in making GNOME a viable alternative for business users looking into the possibility of moving away from the Windows platform for their desktops. Below are links to the Ximian press release, Miguels mail to GNOME hackers and last but not least the Mono project homepage.
http://www.ximian.com/newsitems/mono_announce.php3
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-July/msg00037.html
Richard Hestilow has announced the availability of Metatheme 0.6.1. Metatheme is a plugin based system for creating desktopwide themes for GNOME. This means that you can create a metatheme for GNOME which includes both a GTK+ theme, a XMMS theme, a backgroud image, a Nautilus theme and a Sawfish theme. As more plugins gets created more things can be included in such themes like support for multiple windowmanagers, alternative toolkits, Mozilla and so on.
http://news.gnome.org/994694718/index_html
Been wanting to use the libArt library for some time, but have not been able to do it due to the lack of API documentation? Well Mathieu Lacage must have heard your cry of despair, because he released a full set of documentation for libArt this week. Thanks Mathieu!
http://www.gnome.org/~mathieu/libart/libart.html
LibStroke is a stroke translation library which is now available in a GNOME version. Strokes are motions of the mouse that can be interpreted by a program as a command. Strokes are used extensively in commercial CAD programs for instance. Suggestions for a good motion to use for spam deletion under Evolution are welcome :)
http://www.etla.net/libstroke/
The Evolution team announed that they will make four beta releases before Evolution 1.0 hits the street this fall. As part of this run-up to 1.0 they will be hosting weekly 'Bug days' in order to iron out the last remaining showstoppers. As an extra incentive for users to join in these bug days they plan on giving out gifts to the most helpfull volunteers. Full announcement below.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-July/msg00033.html
Chema Celorio mailed us a screen-shot of the new GNOME Control-center 1.5.0 (development release) which has been released. The screenshot shows the fallback shell for the control-center which will be used if Nautilus is not installed. If Nautilus is installed the new control-center will be a view in Nautilus. Also worth nothing is that the Ximian Setup Tools will integrate with the new control-center. P.S. Some issues have been discovered with 1.5.0 so it might be wise to wait for the soon to be released 1.5.1.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2001-July/msg00068.html
http://www.gnome.org/~chema/new-control-center.png
Matthias Warkus have posted a summary of GNOME at Linux Tag in Germany. Seems Nautilus, Galeon and Gnumeric where the big crowd pleasers. Great to see that the effort of our German GNOME team is paying off by higher visibility in Germany.
http://news.gnome.org/995725623/index_html
Ever wanted to set up a Galeon on a touch-screen kiosk? Well there is a short tutorial and patch available that will let you do this now. Check of the link below for more information.
This weeks project ties in with one of our news items. Currently there is only one theme package available with Metatheme and we need more. There is an application bundled with Metatheme which is called metatheme-edit, which will enable you to easily create new metathemes. So please all you creative souls out there, start putting togeheter great themes for GNOME. A themes.org page is planned, but in the meantime please post a link to your new themes in the discussion forum on news.gnome.org under the announcement of this summary. The new metatheme package is easily available from the Ximian Preview Channel for those of us using the Ximian Red Carpet Installer.
The CVS stats below cover the periods 7th to 14th july and 14th to 21th July. Also worth nothing is that we will probably start including CVS stats from a few selected GNOME projects not stored in GNOME CVS in future listings. First out here will probably be Gnucash.
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