Scott Mannina sent out a announcement this week that the first official release of GNOME for
Solaris is now available. This release is dubbed a preview release by Sun since
the plan is to make GNOME the official desktop of Solaris starting with GNOME
2.0. The full announcement is available here:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-May/msg00046.html
Torsten Schulz announced the 0.2.0 release of the OpenOffice.org Bonobo Integration project. New features
includes support for latest release of Nautilus and OpenOffice. Release announcement:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-components-list/2001-May/msg00145.html
Project homepage:
http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/bonobo/index.html
Alex Graveley announced that the first release of Soup (0.2) is now available.
Soup is a implementation of SOAP in C. An intersting example of what Soup can
enable for GNOME is found in this short email exchange between Miguel de Icaza
and Jonathan LaCour:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-May/msg00335.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-May/msg00344.html
The full Soup announcement and some more explanations on uses for SOAP
for can be found at Gnotices:
http://news.gnome.org/990590897/index_html
Two of the major applications in GNOME Office had new releases this week. Gnumeric
had it's 0.65 release and Dia its 0.88.1 release. Lots of great new functionality in
these releases, like improved bonobo support. Full Gnumeric announcement:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-May/msg00043.html
Full Dia announcement:
http://news.gnome.org/990371177/index_html
Havoc Pennington posted a mail with a lot of good ideas for tasks to do for
future releases of GNOME. The mail sparked a lot of debate so if you are
interested in seeing what type of features are being pondered or tasks you can
help out with, make sure to follow the thread. Havocs mail is available here:
http://lists.eazel.com/pipermail/nautilus-list/2001-May/003210.html
The GStreamer project has put togheter a development roadmap for their imminent
0.2.0 Release. If you are interested in finding out what plugins are planned
for GStreamer 0.2.0 and what the status of the current plugins are please check
it out at:
http://www.linuxrising.com/files/gstreroadmap2.html
The GStreamer homepage is as always on:
Jamie Zawinski, maintainer of XScreensaver and renown ex-mozilla hacker, has
published a document detailing how he set up diskless kiosks at his nightclub
DNA Lounge using GNOME. A very informational piece with lots of good insights
if you ever need to setup a kiosk yourself.
http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/kiosk/
Wolfpack recently did their first release of the Vertex 3D model assembler. It
is designed to help you generate high-performance and efficient 3D models for
applications using OpenGL style graphics rendering. It looks really nice.
http://wolfpack.twu.net/Vertex/index.html
The Encompass browser project needs a developer to help out with wrapping the
gtkhtml widget in bonobo. Some code is already available, but it needs someone
to finish the job. The plan is to enable people to use Encompass as a GNOME help
browser. Details on the POW can be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/people/viewjob.php?group_id=27705&job_id=3449
Thanks the Paul Warren for these lists.
Most active modules
89 ximian-setup-tools
81 evolution
74 galeon
68 gnumeric
44 gimp
41 mc
30 dedit
27 gtkhtml
27 libgnomeui
25 setup-tools-backends
24 gdm2
23 gal
23 gnome-guile
23 CVSROOT
21 gnome-i18n
20 file-sel
20 balsa
19 temp
19 libgnome
19 gtk+
[114 active modules omitted]
Most active developers
95 kmaraas
80 pablo
76 martin
37 chema
35 jirka
35 proskin
30 unammx
30 kitame
30 fejj
29 maubury
27 kabalak
27 mitch
26 jody
26 rodo
25 arios
25 jberkman
24 chyla
18 hansp
17 menthos
17 carlos
105 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.
ximian-setup-tools is a system configuration toolset for UNIX.
B-Chat [is yet another 3rd party client for use with Yahoo! Chat.
GNet A simple network library built onto of GLib.
gdm Rewrite of xdm with Gnome UI.
Pan is a multithreaded Usenet newsreader for GTK and GNOME.
Oroborus Small, themeable, GNOME comliant window manager.
wxWindows is a free cross-platform toolkit in C++ that comes with Python and Perl bindings.
SQmaiL is a vfolder-based mailer that stores its messages in an SQL database.
Firestarter is a complete firewall tool for Linux machines.
gefax is a gnome front end for Efax.
gtktalog is made to easily browse a CDROM database.
Balsa is an email client for GNOME.
GtkMathView is a GTK widget for rendering MathML documents.
Overflow is a 'data flow oriented' development environment.
Gaby is a small personal databases manager using GTK+ and Gnome
gidic is a simple dictionary program which is a GTK-based front-end to The Internet Dictionary project
gboard-edit is an application that allows you to create boards for RoboRally.
CDrecorder is a gui for cdrecord and mkisofs built using gtk
GnoWavCut is a lightweight wave file splitter.
Thanks,
Christian