GNOME Summary - 2001-11-30 - 2001-12-07

Table of Contents

  1. GNOME2 Screenshots starting to roll in
  2. Gediminas Paulauskas ports nautilus-gtkhtml to GNOME2
  3. Accessibility and Multimedia
  4. Rodney Dawes releases new Encompass
  5. Nice looking archiver released
  6. ORBit2 FAQ available
  7. GNOME Foundation board election results now final
  8. Yelp is on the way
  9. Translated GNOME summaries
  10. Hacker Activity
  11. New and Updated Software

1. GNOME2 Screenshots starting to roll in

As more and more people are able to compile and run GNOME2 screenshots documenting their progress is popping up. First one shows Glade2 running, second shows a GNOME 2 desktop running Glade2, GNOME terminal, Nautilus and in the panel wanda and the pager, the third shows a suggestion for a new GNOME2 file selector and the fourth show Nautilus and gedit running on a GNOME2 desktop.

http://primates.ximian.com/~jacob/gnome2/libglade-gnomeapp2.png

http://cronos.dci.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/gnome2/shot1.jpg

http://glimmer.sourceforge.net/gnome2/gnome-file-selector.png

http://greebo.homeip.net/gnome2.png

2. Gediminas Paulauskas ports nautilus-gtkhtml to GNOME2

Gediminas Paulauskas posted to the GNOME2 list this week announcing that he has updated the nautilus-gtkhtml component to use gtkhtml2 and work with the GNOME2 version of Nautilus. In addition Padraig O'Briain at Sun are working on adding full accessiblity support for Gtkhtml2. Links below to a screenshot of the new component running, the full announcement from Gediminas and the gtkhtml2 homepage.

http://03bar.ktu.lt/~menesis/screenshots/nautilus-gtkhtml2.png

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-2-0-list/2001-December/msg00084.html

http://gtkhtml2.codefactory.se/

3. Accessibility and Multimedia

Want to learn more about how to make multimedia applications accessible? Well a few days ago Wim Taymans of the GStreamer project and Bill Haneman, Sun's leading accessibility expert discussed this topic on IRC. Below you find a slighly edited log of that conversation. So if you missed the opportunity to lurk during this talk, well now you can still get the info to make your multimedia applications accessible.

http://www.gstreamer.net/docs/gstaccess.php

4. Rodney Dawes releases new Encompass

After a full rewrite Rodney Dawes releases the first alpha release of the new Encompass browser. Design goals for this round is extensibility and flexibility. Links below to the full announcement and the Encompass homepage.

http://elysium.zoned.net/encompass/index.html

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-December/msg00010.html

5. Nice looking archiver released

Many people have requested an archiver that both support a wide range of formats, but also looks nice. A Winzip for GNOME so to speak. Well this week File Roller was relased at it looks like it just might be the application to fill that role. It even has a bonobo based document viewer. Check out the File Roller homepage for the details.

http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/

6. ORBit2 FAQ available

Michael Meeks made a nice FAQ about the new ORBit2 that will be rolled out togheter with GNOME2. So if you have questions about the new engine of GNOME2 then read the FAQ.

http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/ORBit2/docs/FAQ

7. GNOME Foundation board election results now final

The results of the GNOME Foundation board elections are now officially out. No suprises compared to the preliminary results to congratulations to Jonathan Blandford, Miguel de Icaza, Nat Friedman, Jim Gettys Jody Goldberg, Telsa Gwynne, James Henstridge, George Lebl Federico Mena-Quintero, Havoc Pennington and Daniel Veillard.

The new board has also had their first meeting, and the minutes from that meeting you find as the second link below. One of the most interesting pieces of news from that minute is that GUADEC3 is to find place in Seville, Spain, 4-6th of April 2002

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-December/msg00002.html

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-December/msg00001.html

8. Yelp is on the way

Mikael Hallendal at CodeFactory gave use this screenshot of the new GNOME2 help browser, Yelp. Looks great and easy to use. Now only if we can get Star to make a background image for the text it will look even better :)

http://people.codefactory.se/~micke/yelp/yelp-02.png

9. Translated GNOME summaries

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/

10. Hacker Activity

Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
210 gnucash
92 evolution
73 gnome-core
70 gnomemm
70 galeon
50 gtk+
36 gimp
36 gnumeric
29 gnomeicu
29 pan
29 gnome-control-center
28 gnome-i18n
28 web-devel-2
27 SashComponents
22 libgnomeui
22 yelp
21 ORBit2
21 gcompris
20 at-spi
19 gfax
[150 active modules omitted] 		Most active hackers:
96 peticolas (gnucash)
79 menthos
74 murrayc
53 rlb (gnucash)
38 rodrigo
36 kmaraas
35 linas (gnucash)
33 cactus
33 fejj
32 rasta
28 pablo
27 michael
27 darin
26 chrisime
24 hp
23 kevinv
22 gfarris
22 owen
22 carlos
22 jbaayen
[153 active hackers omitted]

11. New and Updated Software

For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/applist/listrecent.php3

Another week of heavy GNOME2 hacking, next week we hope to bring you news about the new 0.3.0 release of GStreamer so remember to check back :)

Christian

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