Yes, the event you have been waiting for has finally arrived. The GNOME 2.0 Desktop Beta is out! This is the time, this is the place, so start downloading and experience the first glimps of the wonder called GNOME 2.0. Links below to the GNOME 2 beta download area. For those prefering a easier path Jeff Waugh has updated his popular Garnome distribution to support this latest and greatest.
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/releases/gnome-2.0-desktop-beta/
http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/
Alex Larsson becomes co-maintainer of Nautilus. This means we now have two of the best hackers in the GNOME community focusing their attention on Nautilus. They will togheter with the rest of the Nautilus development community make sure that Nautilus for GNOME 2 will rock your world. Announcement linked below.
http://lists.eazel.com/pipermail/nautilus-list/2002-February/007403.html
As many of you have noticed the Gnucash website was down for a while. The reason was problematic hardware coupled with Linas Veptas and his children beeing very sick. The site is back up now, and hopefully the health of Linas and his kids are improving. Best wishes to him from us all.
The best video conferencing tool in the Unix world got a prize last week. The Belgian Journalists on Information Technology award the IT prize each year to the four best University projects in Belgium. This year Damien Sandras and GnomeMeeting took the top spot. Congratulations! Link below to full announcement and the GnomeMeeting website.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomemeeting-list/2002-February/msg00169.html
The GStreamer team is hard at work stabilizing the core of GStreamer in order to make the GNOME 2.0 Fifth toe release. As a result of this many applications based on GStreamer is starting to pop up. Here is a small preview of some of them, most of these apps will have their first releases in the next few weeks.
First we have beatbox a program that could serve all the functions of two turntables, a drum machine, and possibly a small mixing studio. Credit to Andy Wingo and Leif Johnson.
http://ambient.2y.net/beatbox/
http://ambient.2y.net/tmp/beatbox-24-2-2002.png
http://ambient.2y.net/tmp/beatbox-large-24-2-2002.png
There is also gst-record an application which lets you record v4l streams into AVI movies. Credit to Ronald Bultje.
http://ronald.bitfreak.net/images/gst-record-1.png
http://ronald.bitfreak.net/images/gst-record-6.png
http://ronald.bitfreak.net/images/gst-record-7.png
Then there is the iTunes look alike Rhytmbox, which lets you rip, play and burn cdroms of your favourite songs. Credit to Bastien Nocera.
http://idisk.mac.com/bnocera/Public/rb-gnome2-table.jpg
http://idisk.mac.com/bnocera/Public/rb-gnome2-better.jpg
Redael is a software package that combines a video player (MPEG1/MPEG2), annotation tools, and a scoring system into an easy to use GUI. Credit to Joshua N. Pritikin.
http://redael.berlios.de/news.html
then of course there is zchat a video conferecing application. Credit to Zeeshan Ali.
http://zchat.sourceforge.net/scrshot.png
We also have a GStreamer Bonobo component now, thanks to the effort of Jorn Baayen (known for his great work on Galeon).
http://people.nl.linux.org/~jorn/mediaplayer_component/
And last but not least there is the Gstplay mediaplayer which supports playback of all the formats that GStreamer supports like Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Tarkin, Mp3, c64 SID, Mod, Wav, Au, AVI, Mpeg 1 and 2, VOB, FLI. No screenshots as the gui is really really small currently, and Xv doesn't support making screenshots of the video area. But you find it in the gst-player module in CVS. Credit here goes to Arik Devens and Benjamin Otte.
Our hardworking friends on the Abiword project has put out a new release. Fewer bugs and more polished features is the keywords. This release fixed as crasher bug for me, so maybe this is the release you too have been waiting for. Go get it. Our hardworking danish friend Jesper Skov has also put out a new Abiword Weekly News article for your pleasure.
http://www.abisource.com/information/news/2002/awn82.phtml
Have a CORBA application you want to debug? Well Linux Journal has an article with some hints and tips for you. Now all bugs are really shallow.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5453
To honor all those bugs that have been killed last week, we will also this week hold a memorial service in #bug this thursday between 2PM-2AM GMT aka (9AM-9PM EST). All those who don't mourn the loss of these bugs and want to see more killed should join the bug hunter team at this occassion.
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:
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Most active hackers:
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Currently open: 6554 (In the last week: New: +713 Resolved: -822)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
| Module | Open Bugs | New/Opened in last week | Resolved in last week |
|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus: | 1248 | +63 | -64 |
| gnome-core: | 456 | +101 | -139 |
| gtk+: | 346 | +41 | -50 |
| gnome-applets: | 242 | +27 | -20 |
| gnome-vfs: | 237 | +2 | -2 |
| gnome-pilot: | 198 | +11 | -16 |
| sawfish: | 162 | +9 | -21 |
| galeon: | 158 | +142 | -223 |
| gnome-pim: | 137 | +3 | -21 |
| gphoto: | 127 | +3 | -0 |
| gmc: | 125 | +5 | -0 |
| medusa: | 125 | +0 | -0 |
| GIMP: | 112 | +16 | -17 |
| balsa: | 109 | +17 | -10 |
| control-center: | 97 | +30 | -20 |
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
| Bug Hunter | Bugs Resolved/Closed |
|---|---|
| yaneti@declera.com: | 114 |
| louie@ximian.com: | 107 |
| mpeseng@tin.it: | 77 |
| k_wayne@linuxpower.org: | 64 |
| menesis@delfi.lt: | 62 |
| jfleck@inkstain.net: | 51 |
| otaylor@redhat.com: | 36 |
| dan_erat@pobox.com: | 32 |
| charles@rebelbase.com: | 32 |
| srittau@jroger.in-berlin.de: | 21 |
| mark@skynet.ie: | 20 |
| jsh@pixelslut.com: | 19 |
| hadess@hadess.net: | 13 |
| kristian@planet.nl: | 13 |
| maclas@gmx.de: | 12 |
Great week with the new desktop beta out. Think this issue of the summary also proves that GNOME 2.0 will be the multimedia desktop of choice. Next week we cover the new Sun, Ximian and Wipro deal.
Christian
gnome-summary@gnome.org