The summary has brought you lot of cool news of SVG support in GNOME increasing heavily in the last few weeks. One of the applications that should not go unmentioned in such a context is Sodipodi. Sodipodi has become a very nice vector drawing tool and Lauris Kaplinski has been working a lot on it lately. And as any such tool should it use SVG as its native fileformat. Sodipodi 0.27 was recently released so be sure to check it out.
As for a GNOME 2 port of Sodipodi, well Lauris has said he start on that as soon as GNOME 2 is more widely available, which should be imminent with both Red Hat and Mandrake having shipped it and Collin Walters just having created GNOME 2 upgrade scripts for Debian.
http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/index.php3
Tambet Ingo has been helping Chema Celerio on hacking on gnome-print the last few weeks. One of the major patches he has contributed is making gnome-print use Keith Packards new fontconfig library which means a big step forward it getting our print and screen display systems integrated. Thanks to this and other great efforts in the GNOME community GNOME 2.2 should be using fontconfig all over meaning a huge step forward in usability and the end of having to install the same fonts 10 different places for everything to be able to take advantage of it. Thanks to everyone involved.
Iain Holmes, maintainer of the GNOME Media package wrote in and told us that he has ported the GNOME Sound Recorder application in GNOME Multimedia to use GStreamer. One of the advantages of this port is that the GNOME Sound recorder application now actually works well. Since GStreamer supports LADSPA plugins, next on Iain's todo list is to allow you to apply LADSPA (ladspa.org) sound effects to the sounds you record.
Chris Lyttle wrote in with the following message for us: ' The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of alpha version 1.7.1. This is the first release as we begin the journey to stable version 1.8.0. We have lots of bugfixes and new features in this release and would like as much testing and bug reporting as possible. Please report problems to bugzilla.gnome.org. If you feel the need to speak to us or even just to encourage us to move forward on the next major version please either join the mailing list or come on irc.gnome.org and chat with us in the #gnucash channel.'
Bastien Nocera, who recently became a Red Hat employee, has made another cool patch for GNOME 2. This time he has implemented a very nice gui for setting up access to network disks under GNOME. Check out the screenshot to see this beauty in action.
http://www.hadess.net/files/shots/18-07-2002.3.jpg
Two of our most central GNOME hackers Havoc and Owen where interviewed recently on OSNEWS by Eugenia Loli-Queru. Many interesting topics are covered like future plans and the much discussed Qt and Gtk+ integration effort in Red Hat 8.0.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1901&page=1
Andy Wingo, one of the core GStreamer developers, managed to get the first real release of the Gstreamer Pipeline editor out last week. The editor will let you assemble and play GStreamer pipelines graphically and is a wonderful development tool. Thanks goes to Andy for this, and best wishes as he has now left for a two year math teaching assignment in Africa, for the Peace Corps.
There are other developments in GStreamer too, like a new icecast2 plugin, a new wavencoder and finally a proper website for Gnonlin, our non-linear video editing library.
http://www.gstreamer.net/apps/gst-editor/
http://gnonlin.sourceforge.net
A new version of everyones favourite video conferencing tool GNOME Meeting is coming soon. New features in this release includes support for the Speex codec, option to see both local and remote video at the same time, bilinear interpolation on displayed pictures and support for the GNOME 2/freedesktop.org system tray.
We now have French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish - all the links below.
http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4
http://www.gnome-de.org/projekte/listen/#news@gnome-de.org
http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/
http://developer.gnome.or.kr/news/
http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br/resumo-gnome/
http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
Most active modules:
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Most active hackers:
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Currently open: 7902 (In the last week: New: 685, Resolved: 799, Difference: -114)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
| Module | Open Bugs | New/Opened in last week | Resolved in last week | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus: | 880 | 49 | 35 | +14 |
| gtk+: | 533 | 29 | 52 | -23 |
| galeon: | 360 | 90 | 66 | +24 |
| gnome-vfs: | 300 | 5 | 0 | +5 |
| GIMP: | 284 | 7 | 3 | +4 |
| gnome-applets: | 236 | 17 | 9 | +8 |
| control-center: | 146 | 28 | 78 | -50 |
| gnome-panel: | 135 | 51 | 52 | -1 |
| sawfish: | 115 | 5 | 2 | +3 |
| balsa: | 115 | 14 | 3 | +11 |
| gnome-core: | 106 | 24 | 140 | -116 |
| gnome-pilot: | 102 | 7 | 1 | +6 |
| medusa: | 94 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| libzvt: | 84 | 6 | 5 | +1 |
| GnuCash: | 83 | 34 | 21 | +13 |
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
| Bug Hunter | Bugs Resolved/Closed |
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| kmaraas@gnome.org: | 212 |
| yaneti@declera.com: | 60 |
| bill.haneman@sun.com: | 42 |
| otaylor@redhat.com: | 38 |
| dkennedy@tinytoad.com: | 28 |
| jfleck@inkstain.net: | 27 |
| vincent@vuntz.net: | 22 |
| mark@skynet.ie: | 21 |
| jody@gnome.org: | 20 |
| hp@redhat.com: | 19 |
| daniel@veillard.com: | 18 |
| sandmann@daimi.au.dk: | 18 |
| dsandras@seconix.com: | 15 |
| ccevans@cox.net: | 15 |
| jaka@gnu.org: | 14 |
And the GNOME 2.2 juggernaut picks up more steam...
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
gnome-summary@gnome.org