The gnome_test_specs module has been added to GNOME CVS. This is a test bed which enables the user to run tests, record the results, and generate metrics from the results. Test suites includeded cover Nautilus/Evolution/Interoperability/Installation/Gnome Core Components...totalling around 2000 test cases. These are the test suites used by Sun in their work to make sure GNOME works well on Solaris and should be usefull for everyone bundling GNOME with the Unix or Linux version and wanting to do a QA test on GNOME before the release.
Gdkxft, the tool for getting anti-aliased fonts under GTK+ 1.2 has been updated to version 1.1. Improvements include more helpful documentation and a slightly smarter installer. Many people have reported success in getting this to work, but remember that it suffers the same problems with non-western languages that has prevented anti-aliasing being added to GTK+ 1.2 itself. For those wondering the reason why Gtk+ 2.0 don't suffer this problem is because it uses the great Pango library for font handling instead of the problematic X one.
http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/~josh/gdkxft/
Ximian announced the Evolution beta 3 this week. Lots of bugfixes in, including lots of IMAP support fixes and PGP improvements in the mail client and improved documentation handling in regards to its use with Scrollkeeper and Nautilus. Follow the link for the full announcement.
http://www.ximian.com/devzone/release_notes/evolution/1.0_beta_3.html
Bonobo, the component object model of the GNOME project, is the topic of a three part tutorial on IBM Developerworks. The tutorials are writen by lead Bonobo developer Michael Meeks. Check out the link for the first part of this tutorial series. Also of importance is that Michael asked his girlfriend to marry him this week, and got a yes, so our warmest congratulations go to Michael and Julia.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/components/library/co-bnbo1.html
Darin Adler announced that Nautilus and related libraries like eel, medusa and gnome-vfs moved from the Eazel bugzilla server to bugzilla at gnome.org. This means that bugs for these packages should be submitted at bugzilla.gnome.org from here on. Also of importance on the Nautilus; Alex Larsson of Red Hat is working hard with Darin to get all the Red Hat improvements on Nautilus integrated into the main Nautilus CVS tree. Link provided to the bugzilla moving mail from Darin.
http://lists.eazel.com/pipermail/nautilus-list/2001-September/005335.html
Great news from our sister project, Mono. Miguel de Icaza announced that the Mono compiler now is able to compile its first Hello World application. The compiler still needs lots of work but things are moving ahead at top speed. Over 400 of the needed library classes are already implemented and more are added almost daily. Links below to Miguel's mail to the mono-list and the mono website.
http://mail.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-September/001365.html
Jens Finke announced the first release of his libthumb library. This library implements the thumbnail standard he has been working on. This library and specification could mean quite a lot of saved diskspace when it is ready for wide deployment. Links to the announcement email and the thumbnail specification homepage.
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gnome-vfs/2001-September/000690.html
http://triq.net/~pearl/thumbnail-spec/thumbnail-spec/index.html
Another set of minutes from the GNOME Foundation board is out. Their work on getting some good free fonts for the GNOME desktop continues and so does their work on getting the new account policies for gnome.org in place. That and more in the latest GNOME Foundation minutes.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2001-September/msg00014.html
Rodney Dawes is hard at work creating a compilation of tools called Elysium. As part of this effort he is working on some great new tools including the Elysium downloader, a very nice web downloader based on gnome-vfs, EtherTerm his new multi-tabbed terminal application. Also part of this is his continuing work on the Encompass webbrowser. People interested in helping out on these projects should approach Rodney aka Dobey on IRC. Dobey is usually found in #gnome and more on irc.gnome.org.
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
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On behalf of the GNOME community I would like to offer our sincerest condolences to the family and friends of the people lost in the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
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