Ximian released version 0.6 of their setup tools this week. For the first time are they now available in Red Carpet in the Ximian preview channel. The tools currently includes tools for configuring disk shares, network, booting (lilo) and more. Chema Celorio also posted statement to Gnotices saying that they are now working on adding tools for printing, display (X) and fonts. The tools will also integrate with the new control-center when it becomes available.
http://news.gnome.org/993189203/index_html
Freeos.com has a nice review of Galeon. If you aren't already aware, Galeon is the best browser available in terms of giving you the greatest speed, highest standards compliance and unsurpased configurability, then you have yet another chance to find out now.
http://www.freeos.com/articles/4163/
The GStreamer project has now as one of the first large projects out ported to the new glib 2.0 architecture. This means that the core of GStreamer is now capable of being completely X/GUI independent which is something the companies wanting to use GStreamer in embedded devices have been asking for. Since many of you probably want to keep using GStreamer with the stable glib/gtk+ 1.2 release, Erik Walthinsen has created preprocessor shims and stubs which enable you to compile the new version on those older libraries. Other projects wanting to provide a similar option of compiling on both the new and the old platform might find this code useful.
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1504/0/6034808/
Remember the announcement of the gnome-love mailinglist a few weeks back? Well this mailinglist which enables people who want to start coding on Gnome to get help and advice from veteran GNOME hackers has lead to the creation of Procman. Procman is a GNOME process viewer and system monitor. The plan is to become a gtop replacement with a nicer and simpler interface. Great work Kevin!
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/k/f/kfv101/procman/
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
The premier GUI builder, Glade, is currently being ported to the GNOME 2 platform by Chema Celorio and an assorted gathering of knights. As part of this a convertor is being made for you to easily covert your current Glade files to use become glade2 files. So moving your GUI's to GNOME2 should be fairly easy. Glade2 is currently only available in GNOME CVS.
http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvs/gnome&dir=glade2
Eskil Heyn Olsen is back hacking on gnome-pilot after having been locked in the Eazel cellar for quite some time. He even made a new pre-release and moved the homepage to his own domain this week. So if you have a PalmPilot you want to synch with your GNOME desktop, get the latest version from the new GnomePilot homepage.
http://www.eskil.org/gnome-pilot/
Those of you reading these summaries on developer.gnome.org will notice that there are more links now, for instance in the app section. This is because Érdi Gergõ has created a XML document format for the summaries, and a XSL script to convert the document into text and html. As we continue tweaking on this we hope to enable even more functionality and also make life easier for those translating these summaries into other languages.
http://developer.gnome.org/news/
After the 1.0 release of Nautilus many users asked for speed improvements. The 1.0.3 release delivered a lot of those, but there are of course still things that can be improved. This week I want to give a special mention to a hacker who has dedicated himself to optimizing Nautilus even further, namely Yoann Vandoorselaere. The 1.0.4 release of Nautilus, which will be released shortly after Nautilus maintainer Darin Adler returns from Machack, will contain optimizations from Yoann. And there are still more waiting to get the final approval and get commited. Thanks Yoann, the community is very greatful for your work.
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
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