Christopher Blizzard wrote in to tell us that Mozilla 0.9.6 was released this week. There were over 1500 bugs fixed between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6. There were also several performance enhancements, tabbed browsing should be more stable and functional and this is the first release that includes favicons. Please see the release notes link below for more information. Also of interest is that Christopher can inform us that he is now working fulltime on porting Mozilla to GTK+ 2.0.
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.9.6/
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/
Gergo Erdi announced the first application outside the gtkmm package to be ported to the new gtkmm bindings for GNOME 2. He has ported the Gnomoku game and a screenshot is available. The app on the left-hand side is the old GNOME 1 app, the one on the right is the GNOME 2 port in progress. This is a good time for the GNOME language bindings with both the C++, C sharp, Java and Python language bindings getting a lot of attention and seeing wider use.
http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnomoku/
The hyper-productive Rodney Dawes also known as Dobey was interviewed at Linuxpower.org about his latest efforts including Elysium Download, Elysium EtherTerm and last but not least Elysium the distribution.
http://www.linuxpower.org/display.php?id=214
Jean-Marc Valin annouced yet another release of his great Overflow package, the data flow orieneted development environment. If you haven't checked out Overflow before then now is the time to do so.
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/1006317028/index_html
http://freespeech.sourceforge.net/overflow.html
Due to popular demand Malcolm Tredinnick has put togheter a document which aims at help developers port their applications from GNOME 1.0 to GNOME 2.0. So if you have been holding back on starting to port due to lack of documentation you have no excuses anymore. Also there are still works that needs to be done in many of the core areas of GNOME so choose your favourite part of GNOME and volunteer your help porting that module on the GNOME 2 mailing list.
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/porting/
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-2-0-list
Jeffrey Morgan and the Java-GNOME team is working hard at aiming at making sure that Java is the language of choice for GNOME hackers. The 0.7.1 release adds even more classes and methods to these most excellent bindings. The next release of Java-GNOME 0.8.0 will mark the move to GNOME 2.
http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/
The Abiword hackers are at it again with another great release of everyones favourite wordprocessor Abiword.Improved headers and footers and dynamic toolbars are just some of the many fixes in this release. Check out the release notes for the full story. Thanks goes to Martin Sevior, Hubert Figuiere, Dom Lachowicz and all the other hackers of Abiword for another wonderful release.
http://www.abisource.com/release-notes/0.9.5.html
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.
Most active modules:
|
Most active hackers:
|
And they said the age of wonders where over, well we proved them wrong by delivering this weekly summary one week after the last one.
If you have news that you think should be in the next GNOME Summary please send it across. Christian and I are always happy to receive news, comments or suggestions just email us at gnome-summary@gnome.org.
Until next time,
Christian