Rodney Dawes released version 0.4.2 of Encompass this week.
It is a small ideal for situations where speed and resource usage is more
important than support for the latest and greatest web technologies. A good
example here is using it to view the GNOME help files. More information and
download instructions on the Encompass homepage:
http://encompass.sourceforge.net/
IBM DeveloperWorks has posted two articles by Uche Ogbuji on bridging the
Mozilla XPCOM and Bonobo object models. You need to register to access the
tutorials, but registration is free. More information to be found here:
A little on the side, but Daemonnews.org is running a cartoon strip called
Source Wars. And of course you can't tell a story about Free Software without
having a gnome as part of the story :). Check it out at:
Our hardworking friends over at Mozilla.org has just made a new release.
This one features even more speed improvements, a new modern look and bidi
support. Galeon the GNOME & Mozilla based browser also made a new release,
0.11, with Mozilla 0.9.1 support and of course more bugfixes. For more info
about these two browsers check out:
As GNOME 2.0 moves closer and closer the possibility of replacing the aging
Esound soundserver is being considered. Two projects
wanting to provide such a replacement made new releases this week. First out
was Stefan Westerfeld with a release 0.1.2 of GNOME-aRts, which is GNOME
support for the soundserver used in KDE. Then a little later Lennart
Poettering released version 0.2 of ASD, which is a project aiming to create an
improved drop-in replacement for Esound.
For more information on the aRts release see:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-June/msg00054.html
And for more info on the ASD release:
Johan Dahlin has begun working on a new module in GNOME CVS called
Bonobo-python which as you might haved guess is a
library which easily lets you create Bonono components using the python
scripting language. This will for instance enable you to fast and easy add new
functionality to Nautilus using python.
http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvs/gnome&dir=bonobo-python
Chema Celorio mailed gnome-hackers this week asking people to submit more
items into the gnome Todo system. The todo system provides a list of tasks
suiteable for new hackers just starting out working on GNOME. For more
information read the mail from Chema.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-June/msg00077.html
The GStreamer project released their 0.2.0 release this week. GStreamer aims at
creating a full featured media framework for the Unix platform It aims to
enable developers to fast and easily create multimedia applications.
While GStreamer main goal is providing a library some sample applications are
included, for instance using its command-line tools you can convert your Avi
files to mpeg files. Or due to its GNOME VFS plugin you can play media files
straight from the web using the gstmediaplay GUI client. More information on
the GStreamer 0.2.0 release page:
http://www.gstreamer.net/releases/0.2.0/
Charles Kerr released version 0.9.7 of the great newsgroup client Pan.
The three beatiful words used to describe this release was faster, smaller
and fewer bugs. For more information check out the Pan website:
Alex Larsson announced the first release of gnome-vfs-extras this week. GNOME
vfs extras will provide extra modules for GNOME vfs which cannot be distributed
with the core package due to being licensed under the GPL (GNOME VFS is of
course licensed under the LGPL.) There are currently 2 modules in there now.
The first is 'smb' which lets you browse windows network neighbourhood and
shares from windows machines and samba servers. The second module is 'icecast'
which lets you stream icecast data using GNOME VFS. You can download GNOME VFS
extras at:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gnome-vfs-extras/
The Abiword project have been making a weekly newsletter for quite some time
now with the latest development from the Abiword front. New features discussed
in the latest issues are clipart support, screen 'dirt' fixes and new release
being prepared and of course bugfixing :)
http://www.abisource.com/dev/news/2001/awn46.phtml
http://www.abisource.com/dev/news/2001/awn47.phtml
Dom Lachowicz recently sent a mail to the Kword developers asking if they where
interested in collaberation on improving MS Word .doc format import. After some
discussions back and forth an agreement was made and a shared wvWare2 library
will be developed in collaberation. You find Dom's initial mail at the link
below, and just follow the thread for the full story.
http://lists.kde.org/?l=koffice&m=99064710806555&w=2
Telsa Gwynne informs of us the startup of the GNOME-bugsquad mailinglist.
This is for people trying to tidy bugzilla of old bugs and get new bugs into
the right place: people willing to verify that bugs still exist and who have
some spare hours each week are welcome. Expect high-traffic :)
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad
Feeling that last weeks special mention of the great work done by
Juan Pablo Mendoza was a good thing, we have borrowed an idea from our Mozilla
friends. So starting this week we will, like the Mozilla newsletter, have a
Friends of the tree section from time to time, where we give special mention
to someone we feel deserving. So if you know of someone deserving a little
extra attention please let us know.
This week I would like to pull Paolo Casarini into the spotlight. Paolo has
for the last few months taken the Gdome package, which is a W3C DOM
implementation for GNOME, and ressurected it from lingering unmaintained to
now fast becoming full featured. This has lead to for instance GtkMathView
widget starting to use it in its next release. Great work Paolo!
More info about Gdome can be gotten and found on the Gdome
mailing list:
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gdome
Ok, a task which everyone can do is for this week.
In order to improve the quality of www.gnome.org we need to get rid of broken
links. So if someone would be willing to search through the gnome website and
report any broken links to webmaster@gnome.org that would be great.
Thanks the Paul Warren for these lists.
Most active modules
97 galeon
63 evolution
62 gtk+
62 gnome-utils
46 bonobo-python
45 SashMo
42 gnumeric
39 mc
37 libgnome
35 ximian-setup-tools
34 nautilus
32 gtranslator
30 web-devel-2
23 gnome-i18n
23 gail
20 dia
19 libgnomeui
19 gnome-xml
18 gtkhtml
17 gnome-core
[94 active modules omitted]
Most active developers
60 martin
51 kabalak
47 jirka
46 zilch i
44 kmaraas
38 hp
30 proskin
29 menthos
26 dietmar
25 barreiro
24 tambeti
24 trow
23 atevstef
22 mpeseng
22 seth
21 veillard
21 maubury
21 pablo
17 almer
17 mmueller
[123 active developers omitted]
NB These statistics are largely meaningless - they count CVS commits, which are
only a very rough indicator of actual progress of a project.
Software updated this week
Gnome-- - A powerful C++ binding for the GNOME libraries - 1.1.21
galeon - A GNOME web browser based on Gecko - 0.11
Pygmy - A GNOME mail client written in Python - 0.5.9
ASD - A full featured drop-in replacement for Esound - 0.2
GStreamer - A streaming media library and set of multimedia tools - 0.2.0
RadioDJ - A radio device controller with unlimited stations - 0.2.12
gtktalog - An application to create and easily browse a CDROM database - 0.99.0
Pan - A multithreaded Usenet newsreader for GTK and GNOME - 0.9.7
Oroborus - Small, themeable, GNOME comliant window manager - 1.13.0
Rocket - Webserver providing real-time monitoring - 0.1
GNOME Wireless Applet - A panel applet and management tool for wireless network cards - 0.8
linphone - A IP web-phone -0.3.0
Encompass - A lightweight Web Browser for Gnome using GtkHTML - 0.4.2
vlc - VideoLAN Client is aDVD and MPEG player for Gnome or Gtk+ - 0.2.80
gnome-db - Database access for Gnome applications - 0.2.9
gnoracity - A simple board strategy game - 1.1
PonG - GNOME Properties is a library and a tool for building configuration dialog boxes - 1.0.0
Gnome Toaster - CD creation suite using cdrecord,cdrdao,cdda2wav,mkisofs - 1.0Beta1
TEG - Tenes Emapandas Graciela (TEG) is a multiplayer turn-based strategy game - 0.6.10
gramps - A GNOME/Python based genealogy program - 0.2.0
think - Think is an outliner. 0.2
For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map:
http://www.gnome.org/applist/listrecent.php3
Thanks,
Christian
gnome-summary@gnome.org