The first bugfix release of GNOME 2 has been released. This version has fixed many of the most critical issues that where discovered in the 2.0.0 release. So if you haven't got this release already check out the link below for all the little details and join the GNOME2 revolution.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-August/msg00044.html
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/
Who would believe it, but GNOME was 5 years old on the 17th of august. It feels just like yesterday that Miguel sent out the mail announcing the project. You find the history of the desktop on Miguel de Icaza's website linked below and Gnomedesktop.org features some nostaligic screenshots of GNOME 0.13; those where the days :)
http://primates.helixcode.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html
http://www.gnomedesktop.com/article.php?sid=605&mode=&order=0&thold=0
Thanks to the great work of David Schleef, GStreamer now have support for the flash format so popular on the web. David is also working on updating the mozstreamer application to give you support for doing webbrowser embeded playback of all GStreamer supported media formats. Another interesting addition to GStreamer is C++/Qt bindings created by Tim Jansen, to make it easier to develop KDE applications using GStreamer, hopefully KDE too will adopt GStreamer as their multimedia backend. Links below to a tarball of the flash code and to Tim's announcement of his bindings.
https://cvs.comedi.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/swf/swf.tar.gz?tarball=1
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1504/0/9341282/
Eddy Ahmed has made the second installement in his series of articles on developing GNOME using Glade and Anjuta. Both installements linked below.
http://writelinux.com/glade/index.php
http://eddy.writelinux.com/part2/
Luis Villa posted the list of bugs we need to fix for the upcomming GNOME 2.0.2 release. All GNOME developers or wannabe GNOME developers are kindly requested to try and help fix as many as these as possible. So start attaching patches to those bug reports so our poor maintainers can get the fixes merged in as soon as possible.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-August/msg00277.html
One of our premier showcase applications, GnomeMeeting, added a new feature in a recent release, namely its own directory service. With this service it is easy to find out who of your friends and contacts that are currently online and available for a talk. If you haven't upgraded to the latest version yet, please do so and remember to register in the directory.
Chema Celorio is hard at work improving on gnome-print. He recently sent out a mail listing his current priorities. Important work includes updating pdf output driver and adding support for CUPS. Other important news in the gnome-print deparment is that Dom Lachowicz of Abiword fame is working on adding a SVG output option to gnome-print. Check out the links for the details.
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gnome-print/2002-July/001056.html
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/Aug/0375.html
James Willcox has recently updated his suggested standard specification for the recent documents feature. hopefully his specification gets widely implemented,as it is already implemented for gnome in his gnome-recent library, so that we not only get functional recent documents functionality accross gnome apps, but also accross most Unix apps.
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jwillcox/recent-file-spec.html
Michael Meeks is regarded as one of the best public speakers and presentators in the GNOME world. He recently put his slides for his GNOME2 presentation online. If you are planing on doing a talk on GNOME2 for your local LUG or other group then these slides could be a great starting point, they are also a nice read if you just want a quick overview over some of the most important things in GNOME atm.
http://www.gnome.org/~michael/lwe-august-2002
http://www.gnome.org/~michael/lwe-august-2002.tar.gz
The GNOME2 porting train continues to steam forward. One of the latest and greatest additions are the FireStarter tool which is a great firewall tool for Linux. You find screenshots and more information on the FireStarter homepage.
http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/
More and more viewers for Nautilus are starting to pop up. One of them which had a recent release it the XML viewer by Gonzalo Odiard. If you ever need to read through XML files you should really try this one out.
http://personales.ciudad.com.ar/godiard/
The premier office suite for BeOS has had a port underway to Unix and GNOME for some time now. OsNews recently reported that this very nice office suite will be released under the GPL soon. Thanks goes to the developers for this move and the nice addition this will be to GNOME Office.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1520
Red Hat is hard at work aiming at making Red Hat 8.0 the definitive desktop distribution. One of the changes they are doing is making a new set of icons for GNOME2, that they will also use for their KDE dekstop configuration, to give apps a more integrated feature accross desktops. The move has caused some noise, so check out the screenshot below and decide for yourselves. (Btw, the standard GNOME icons are still available by changing a GConf key).
http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/screenshots/redhat02.jpg
One of our favourite hackers from that great GNOME land down under, James Henstridge, is hard at work adding support for viewing and installing/deinstalling rpms using Nautilus. Things are looking sweet judging by the screenshots.
http://www.daa.com.au/~james/images/nautilus-rpm/rpmdb-vfs-2.png
http://www.daa.com.au/~james/images/nautilus-rpm/rpm-view-2.png
http://www.daa.com.au/~james/images/nautilus-rpm/rpm-view-3.png
http://www.daa.com.au/~james/images/nautilus-rpm/rpmdb-vfs-1.png
http://www.daa.com.au/~james/images/nautilus-rpm/rpmdb-vfs-2.png
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Currently open: 7315 (In the last week: New: 672, Resolved: 931, Difference: -259)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
| Module | Open Bugs | New/Opened in last week | Resolved in last week | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus: | 774 | 48 | 35 | +13 |
| gtk+: | 579 | 22 | 21 | +1 |
| gnome-vfs: | 280 | 7 | 9 | -2 |
| galeon: | 279 | 90 | 72 | +18 |
| GIMP: | 277 | 18 | 1 | +17 |
| gnome-core: | 213 | 35 | 112 | -77 |
| sawfish: | 184 | 0 | 6 | -6 |
| gnome-applets: | 161 | 24 | 25 | -1 |
| gnome-panel: | 148 | 31 | 42 | -11 |
| control-center: | 142 | 24 | 30 | -6 |
| balsa: | 103 | 9 | 202 | -193 |
| medusa: | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| gnome-pilot: | 95 | 4 | 18 | -14 |
| gnome-terminal: | 88 | 25 | 18 | +7 |
| glib: | 81 | 4 | 2 | +2 |
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
| Bug Hunter | Bugs Resolved/Closed |
|---|---|
| pawsa@theochem.kth.se: | 194 |
| kmaraas@gnome.org: | 169 |
| yaneti@declera.com: | 66 |
| hp@redhat.com: | 55 |
| vincent@vuntz.net: | 43 |
| bfrantzdale@hmc.edu: | 41 |
| mark@skynet.ie: | 37 |
| louie@ximian.com: | 28 |
| jody@gnome.org: | 27 |
| david@lupercalia.net: | 23 |
| avirupa.chakrabarty@wipro.com: | 21 |
| jacob@ximian.com: | 17 |
| andrew@sobala.net: | 15 |
| sandmann@daimi.au.dk: | 14 |
| jorn@nl.linux.org: | 14 |
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
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Summer is over and as the hackers are returning from their summer vacations, bringing with them the fruits of their labour, the the excitement is starting to grow in the GNOME community over the upcomming GNOME 2.2 release. Personally think we will look back at the 2.2 release and see it as one of the great landmarks in the evolution of free software. So prepare for many exciting news features of upcoming GNOME 2.2 features in the summaries this fall.
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
gnome-summary@gnome.org