We put up a request for user feedback on what they would want to see for GNOME 2.x on Gnotices not long ago. The request gave us an very large amount of comments and requests. Aaron at Ximian took the time to compile the requests into a more ordered list and try to rank them somewhat. Steve Fox did a similar operation for the GNOME Web team. So the message is that the GNOME hackers are listening and appreciate your feedback. Links below to the compilations of Aaron and Steve.
http://primates.ximian.com/~aaron/requests.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-web-list/2001-October/msg00052.html
Darin Adler and the rest of the Nautilus team proudly presents Nautlus 1.0.5. This release contains a lot of fixes and improvements from the Red Hat Labs guys. This release adds lots of little tweaks and polishes, and it also makes Nautilus use .desktop files which should increase interoperability with other filemanagers using that specification. This will probably be the last GNOME 1.x release of Nautilus as the coders will start focusing on porting Nautilus to the GNOME 2 framework. You find Darin's announcement at the first link below. Jamin Philip Gray has made some RPMS for Red Hat 7.1 availble which you find and the second link below.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-October/msg00038.html
http://dolinux.dyn.dhs.org/rpms/nautilus/
Havoc Pennington announced the availability of Gnomehide this week. Gnomehide is a set of GNOME 2 RPMS for people using RedHat Rawhide or RedHat 7.2 distributions. Thanks goes to Havoc for this.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-2-0-list/2001-October/msg00270.html
Alex Larsson, Georg Lebl, Glynn Foster and others are working hard at porting the gnome-core package to the GNOME 2 plattform. Part of the gnome-core panel is the popular gnome-panel which now compiles on the GNOME 2 plattform. Bastien Nocera is working hard at porting the gnome-utils package to GNOME 2 and have already reported success with many of the utils. Anders Carlson the gnome-libs maintainer has also declared gnome-libs2 finished API wise now and ready to be used.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-2-0-list/2001-October/msg00192.html
Our webteam is currently hard at work improving the website. Our Gnotices maintainer and resident Zope export, Michael R. Bernstein, has already made improvements to our Squishdot setup, including getting preview and moderation working. Joshua Eichorn, Steve Hall and Steve Fox is working on implementing other improvements and Joshua posted this timetable for the new GNOME website. Links below to the timetable and to the current template for the new GNOME website.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-web-list/2001-October/msg00038.html
http://www.mindspring.com/~digitect/gnome/v2/2-0-4-moz.html
The people at Ximian have been working very hard for quite some time now and people have been wondering how they manage to keep motivated and not burn out. Well thanks to a security breach at Ximian we are now able to bring you some insight. Follow the link below for the full story.
http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3
GNOME has always taken a lead in using XML technologies in the desktop and is still today the desktop with the widest use of XML technologies. With this as the background XML.com have done an article investigating the use of XML in GNOME.
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/10/10/xml-gnome.html
Glynn Foster posted a notice to Gnotices this week telling us that if you want to join the GNOME foundation this is the time to do so. If you want to be able to vote or be a candidate in the upcomming GNOME Foundation Board election you need to register. Also being a GNOME Foundation member will make you eligble for a gnome.org email alias :)
http://news.gnome.org/1003247134/index_html
Jesper Skov brings us yet another Abiword Weekly news. This issue brings us information on improvements in the header and footer suppprt in Abiword, more polish to the Bidi support and more.
http://www.abisource.com/dev/news/2001/awn65.phtml
Been looking for a HTML editor for GNOME. Well Peacock made its 0.4 release this week. Having look at it I think it works rather well even at this early stage. Thanks goes to Archit Baweja for his good work. As a personal note I would also like to thank Archit for not using G as the first letter in the name of his application :).
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-October/msg00035.html
Karsten Reincke has once again updated his very nice GNOME installation guide which tells you how to compile and install GNOME 1.4.x yourself. According to some sources wanting to stay anonymous you are not a real Linux user until you have compiled your own applications so here is your chance:)
I have recently put up a website for the GNOME Development tools at gnome.org. The idea is for it to function as a central place for information on the different initiatives which are underway to bring some really great integrated development tools to the GNOME platform. While the pages still need more work I think they already can be used as a starting point for people interesting in joining this effort. You find the devtools website below.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/devtools
Many GNOME sub-projects has their own homepages under the gnome.org/projects directory structure. Due to this I decided to put the start of a GNOME Alphabetical index into that directory. Currently is lists many of the most important GNOME projects, but of course it is far from complete. So at this point I invite all people looking for particular projects homepage to visit the index and also all people with CVS access to should feel free to add their favourite projects to the index.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/
October 13, 2000 was the day when Sun made OpenOffice free software by releasing the sourcecode under the GPL, that is OpenOffice's birthday. Congratulations to the OpenOffice project and hopefully with the 6.0 release now soon out of the door, more work can be done to improve integration of OpenOffice and GNOME as planed.
Thanks to resourceful volunteers around the globe we got some 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/
This two week summary contains CVS stats for the periods 6th October to 13th October and from 13th October to 20th October.
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
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Most active hackers:
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