The GNOME community proudly announced yet another GNOME 2 beta release this week. Critical and not so critical bugs continue getting slayed at high speed. Check below for Release Notes and download location. Also for people wanting to test out GNOME 2 remember that both Garnome easy to use buildsystem and the Ximian GNOME 2 Snapshot RPMS for Red Hat are good alternatives.
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/releases/gnome-2.0-desktop-beta5/README
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/releases/gnome-2.0-desktop-beta5/
http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/
Rumours say that Marco is planning to make the first beta release of Galeon2 soon. Galeon2 is using the GNOME2 plattform and Mozilla using GTK+ 2. While there still are some bugs that needs to be worked out more and more of the users and developers are now able to compile and run the new version. A little sneak preview provided below with anti-aliasing and everything :).
http://www.planetasur.com/hattrick/Screenshot.png
Telsa Gwynne has made a website with her impressions and innsights from GUADEC 3. The page includes some nice summaries of the talks Telsa attented there. So if you missed this years GUADEC this is your chance to get up to date again.
http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/Trips/guadeciii.html
We might have mentioned this in a previous issue, but some things just deserves to be brought back into the limelight from time to time. The story is that if you want more GNOME related news than we are able to bring you through the summaries or Gnotices there is a very nice site dedicated to GNOME news called gnomedesktop.com. Be sure to check it out.
GNOME and KDE cooperation has for a long time being something many people have talked about, but few has done anything about. Well seems like some people got fed up with that and starting doing something and there are now several issues being worked on under the freedesktop.org banner.
Havoc Pennington is working to push the new .desktop and menu setup system forward as illustrated in this mail.
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-May/msg00271.html
Jens Finke has been working on a thumbnail Managing standard which is now starting to get implemented, Gimp being one of the first projects out.
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/2002-April/000296.html
Owen Taylor posted the XEmbed draft to the list as shown in link below.
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/2002-April/000356.html
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/2002-April/000378.html
Alex Larsson is pushing an Icon theme standard forward as seen in the mail below
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/2002-April/000389.html
Thomas Leonard is working on a standard for a Shared MIME-info Database.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tal00r/info.html
The GNOME Office suite hackers is continuing their integration work. The latest effort now is Abiword and GtkMathView integration in order to give Abiword the ability to render MathML. This comes in addition to the earlier mentioned efforts which have given you Abiword in Evolution, Abiword in Gnumeric and Gnumeric in Nautilus as shown in the screenshots below.
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/May/0369.html
http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~msevior/abiword/evolution-abi2.png
http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~msevior/abiword/abi-in-gnumeric.png
http://www.gnome.org/~michael/nautilus-gnumeric.png
Abiword got some good press this week with MSNBC doing a positive review. Who know maybe Microsoft will soon start using Abiword internally :). For those of us who like to follow Abiword development more closely another issue of the Abiword Weekly News is out, links below.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/751496.asp?0si=-&cp1=1
http://www.abisource.org/information/news/2002/awn92.phtml
The improved support for non-western languages is one of the most important additions to the GNOME 2 plattform. This addtion is now becoming more tangible with translators working hard. This week we bring you some screenshots of the nice looking Hindi translation of GNOME.
http://indlinux.sourceforge.net/hindi/gnome/
http://indlinux.sourceforge.net/hindi/gnome/mainmenu1.jpg
The Nautilus file manager has been getting a lot of attention from the hackers in preparation for GNOME 2. Everyone who has tried Nautilus for GNOME 2 is impressed with the improved speed of this incarnation. Yet Nautilus have been missing a central page where people can go for information. To help with that I have put up a page linking to the most important Nautilus resources and also writen a tutorial for creating Nautilus themes.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus
This week another translation joins the GNOME Summaries family, Portuguese. Brazilian Portuguese to be exact. So we now have French, Spanish, Hungarian, Korean and Portuguese - all the links below.
http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4
http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/
http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/
http://developer.gnome.or.kr/news/
http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br/resumo-gnome/
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
Most active modules:
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Most active hackers:
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Currently open: 6805 (In the last week: New: 754, Resolved: 888, Difference: -134)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
| Module | Open Bugs | New/Opened in last week | Resolved in last week | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus: | 859 | 57 | 167 | -110 |
| gtk+: | 516 | 44 | 52 | -8 |
| gnome-core: | 290 | 63 | 34 | +29 |
| gnome-vfs: | 260 | 9 | 10 | -1 |
| galeon: | 238 | 101 | 86 | +15 |
| GIMP: | 196 | 26 | 23 | +3 |
| control-center: | 187 | 36 | 65 | -29 |
| gnome-applets: | 170 | 26 | 36 | -10 |
| sawfish: | 168 | 16 | 10 | +6 |
| gnome-panel: | 149 | 54 | 53 | +1 |
| gnome-pilot: | 144 | 22 | 0 | +22 |
| balsa: | 128 | 15 | 6 | +9 |
| medusa: | 127 | 1 | 0 | +1 |
| gnome-utils: | 84 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| Gnumeric: | 78 | 12 | 14 | -2 |
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
| Bug Hunter | Bugs Resolved/Closed |
|---|---|
| louie@ximian.com: | 148 |
| yaneti@declera.com: | 81 |
| Uraeus@linuxrising.org: | 63 |
| otaylor@redhat.com: | 60 |
| bordoley@msu.edu: | 56 |
| tester@videotron.ca: | 47 |
| hp@redhat.com: | 39 |
| dsandras@seconix.com: | 34 |
| michael@ximian.com: | 29 |
| kmaraas@gnome.org: | 27 |
| kfv101@psu.edu: | 26 |
| jacob@ximian.com: | 20 |
| charles@rebelbase.com: | 20 |
| jody@gnome.org: | 19 |
| shane.oconnor@ireland.sun.com: | 19 |
Another two weeks with the GNOME 2 steam engine rolling forward. Lots of porting, polishing and bugfixing action going on. The GNOME hackers still need your help with identifying bugs, remember a bug that isn't in bugzilla don't exist :)
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
gnome-summary@gnome.org