GNOME Summary - 2002-05-19 - 2002-05-25

Sun goes to town with MetaCity
Murray Cumming interview
AbiWord points the way to tables
GNOME vrs KDE
Glade 1.1.0 beta release
Translated GNOME summaries
Hacker Activity
Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
New and Updated Software

1. Sun goes to town with MetaCity

Sun announced that they will being using MetaCity as their window manager rather than Sawfish which GNOME used for the 1.4 release. Glynn Foster announced the decision to the GNOME hackers citing documentation, code maintainability and accessibility as the main reasons.

http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-May/msg00104.html

http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/metacity/README

2. Murray Cumming interview

Murray has developed the C++ bindings to both GTK+ and GNOME libraries - gtkmm and gnomemm. This interview done by Christian Schaller (co-editor of the GNOME Summary) concentrates on the the past, present and future of the gtkmm project. Murray also comments on the general state of GNOME for language bindings and why he thinks C++ will remain a strong language for developers.

http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=Sections&amp;file=index&amp;req=viewarticle&amp;artid=527

http://www.gtkmm.org/

3. AbiWord points the way to tables

AbiWord is now past concentrating on implementing the new features for the next step forward. This is likely to include a port to GTK+ 2, a more advanced layout engine for tables and an embeded irc client. As always they would welcome any help triaging bugs and you don't need to be a programmer.

http://www.abisource.org/information/news/2002/awn93.phtml

4. GNOME vrs KDE

Nicholas Petreley follows up his previous article on Ximians Evolution to discuss why he prefers the KDE development system. The main complaints are lack of consistency within GTK+ and GNOME applications as compared to KDE ones. He also dislikes the number of libraries GNOME has and feels it is API Overload. He also feels that GNOME is about to split apart due to Mono. He removes language alternatives to C/C++ for consideration and feels licensing is also not worthy of consideration.

http://www.idg.net/crd_idgsearch_864623.html

5. Glade 1.1.0 beta release

Glade has been ported to GTK+ 2.0 and updated so that it generates GNOME 2.0 compliant XML output. The current tarball is a beta release for interested developers to debug. This is an update to the existing 0.6.X code base rather than a totally new codebase, the new code continues in the Glade3 project. This is a big step forward for application developers wanting to port to GNOME 2.0 so grab those tarballs!

http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-May/msg00073.html

6. Translated GNOME summaries

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/

7. Hacker Activity

Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:

75	evolution
71	galeon
53	gnome-panel
48	gnucash
43	gnome-applets
42	gtk+
39	yelp
39	gtkvts
39	gtkhtml
36	nautilus
33	gimp
30	gnome-utils
28	pan
28	gnomemeeting
25	gdm2
25	glib
24	gnome-control-center
24	gnome-desktop
23	libgnomeui
23	libgda

[122 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:

66	kmaraas
58	rodrigo
45	isam
43	menthos
37	maa
35	michael
35	stano
31	chyla
30	jberkman
30	hvv
30	hadess
30	owen
28	fejj
28	ettore
27	hallski
25	kevinv
24	rodo
24	gman
24	olau
23	alexl

[130 active hackers omitted]

8. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity

This information is from http://bugzilla.gnome.org, which hosts bug and feature reports for most of the Gnome modules. If you would like to join the bug hunt, subscribe to the gnome-bugsquad mailing list.

Currently open: 6915 (In the last week: New: 859, Resolved: 737, Difference: +122)

Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):

Module	Open Bugs	New/Opened in last week	Resolved in last week	Difference
nautilus:	840	58	79	-21
gtk+:	549	53	17	+36
gnome-core:	298	75	53	+22
gnome-vfs:	260	10	10	0
galeon:	243	146	130	+16
GIMP:	215	26	2	+24
control-center:	194	34	23	+11
sawfish:	178	13	4	+9
gnome-applets:	175	25	14	+11
gnome-pilot:	143	12	13	-1
balsa:	131	8	3	+5
gnome-panel:	127	61	68	-7
medusa:	127	0	0	0
Gnumeric:	79	16	13	+3
gnome-utils:	77	8	26	-18

Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:

Bug Hunter	Bugs Resolved/Closed
yaneti@declera.com:	127
kmaraas@gnome.org:	57
louie@ximian.com:	56
andrew@sobala.net:	41
bordoley@msu.edu:	30
jfleck@inkstain.net:	23
mark@skynet.ie:	21
jirka@5z.com:	21
otaylor@redhat.com:	20
micke@codefactory.se:	18
jacob@ximian.com:	17
shane.oconnor@ireland.sun.com:	16
michael@ximian.com:	16
hp@redhat.com:	15
alex@ximian.com:	15

8. New and Updated Software

oggdoctor: ogg/vorbis toolbox
gtkgrepmail: A gtk front end to grepmail which will allow you a GUI^Minterface to search through your sent and+saved mail.^MSupport is provided for both local mailboxes and remote^Mmailboxes that are accessible using+IMAP and ssh/rsh.
File Roller: File Roller is an archive manager. It lets you open, modify^Mextract archive files sush as tar +and zip.
gThumb: Image viewer and browser.
Atomix: A mind game about atoms and molecules.
rubrica: address book, pim
gnochive: gnochive is a gnome front-end for all common archivers under^Mlinux. Was formally known as +gnomerar. Supported formats:^Mtar,gzip,bz2,zip,compress, zoo, lha, ace, arj, cpio, rpm.
Balsa: Gnome Mail Client
gmyclient: Gmyclient is designed to be a simple quick and powerful way^Mto access your mysql database under +gnome desktop .^MIt``s provide you a simple way , a la midnight-commander, to^Maccess your database data.+^MIt make mysql using easier.
Glitter Binary Newsreader: Newsgroup binary grabber
GTablature: Tablature editor in Python
bond: Bond is a rapid application development tool which works with GLADE to create data-aware applications. The major benfit for you is you dont have to code individual widgets in your forms, bond makings gtk data aware at the top level.
Greenwich: Whois client for GNOME
GNOME Terminal: terminal console app
gtkmm2: GTK+ C++ binding
gcompris: education games canvas kids children
gedit: Lightweight UTF-8 text editor
Gnotide: Tidal analysis software.
Cream (for Vim): Usability project for GUI Vim
Gnome Chemistry Utils: chemical widgets for gnome-2
GtkDatabox: Fast display of numerical data
Elysium Download: Download Manager for GNOME

For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php

The GNOME 2.0 release is less than a month away and the bugs are falling by the day. As always if you have any news you'd like included or general comments please email them to gnome-summary@gnome.org

Steve George

gnome-summary@gnome.org