Havoc has a patch out that will allow system monitor to indicate how much memory an application is using in the X server.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127120
http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/random/gsm-x-server-memory.png
Some bits on Evolution:
Evolution has a new folder tree that will improve speed and efficiency.
Nat has a short blurb on what to expect for Evolution 2.0. Which include such things as a split of Evolutions backend, Full HIG compliance, S/MIME support, and viewing calendars stored on the web.
http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000088.html
http://www.nat.org/2003/november/
Colin Walters and RB hackers have released Rhythmbox 0.6.1. This is a bug fixes version with minor new features.
Rhythmbox is an iTunes clone that supports large music lists, and iradio/streaming.
http://www.rhythmbox.org/news.html
Sun has signed a deal with a consortium of Chinese companies that will allow Sun to deploy 500,000 to a million desktops in 2004.
http://news.com.com/2100-7340-5108158.html?tag=nl
A document put out by the open office team where a fair portion of it discusses GNOME integration.
http://tools.openoffice.org/releases/q-concept.html
Curtis Hovey contributor of Medusa has been hard at work committing rudimentary GUI for Medusa. There is a small hope that it might get into Nautilus 2.5
One note, building Medusa from HEAD might break your Nautilus builds
Medusa is an indexing and search tool for locating your files and data.
http://members.cox.net/sinzui/blog/medusa/2003-11-20.html
The Red Carpet Daemon (rcd) is a system daemon which provides users access to the underlying packaging database. Through an XML-RPC interface, clients can view the database, and with sufficient permissions install, remove, and upgrade packages. The daemon also provides a very powerful dependency resolver which removes the headaches of software management.
Rug is the command-line client interface to rcd. With it you can browse software through channels, install and remove packages, and get package information. It also includes "power features" like package history, locks for preventing certain updates, and package rollback.
Red Carpet is a GTK-based graphical client which uses the daemon to provide a friendly interface for managing software.
Open Carpet is a set of tools to create package metadata so that anyone with a web page and some packages can set up a Red Carpet service.
http://developer.ximian.com/projects/source
GNOME foundation is announcing the launch of the first ever open source desktop integration bounty hunt. The aim of the contest is to recruit new developers and to more tightly integrate the various projects that make up the desktop into a more coherent, and complete user experience.
The contest consists of a number of small, concrete projects, each of which has a cash bounty associated with it. Complete the hack, enter the contest, and collect a prize.
People participating in the contest will be hanging out on the #bounties channel on irc.gimp.org.
http://www.gnome.org/bounties#categories
Nat has put up his slides for the intro of the Brooklyn GNOME summit
http://nat.org/brooklyn-gnome-summit
The new version is out with updated translations, refactored editing views, new attribute and namespace editors in gtk2 and a new GNOME icon.
MlView is a generic XML editor for GNOME. It provides a tree oriented XML editing view and supports edition with or without DTD based validation.
http://www.freespiders.org/projects/gmlview/release-notes/mlview-0-6-1.html
http://www.freespiders.org/projects/gmlview/
http://www.freespiders.org/projects/gmlview/screenshots/index.html
GtkAda is an Ada graphical toolkit based on GTK+ 2.2. It allows you to develop graphical applications in Ada using GTK+ and Gnome. Based on this toolkit, GPS was released. GPS is a free software multi-platform and multi-language IDE. It provides a wide range of tools integrated together, and features particularly powerful source navigation capabilities. GPS also integrates GVD, the GNU Visual Debugger, and replaces it. Screenshots included at its web page."
http://libre.act-europe.fr/GtkAda/
http://libre.act-europe.fr/gps/
New features include support or multiple views, XSLT parameter handling, preview function in import dialog box, renaming of frames among bug fixes and enhancements.
Passepartout is an Open Source Desktop Publishing application for the X Windows environment. The goal of this project is to create a system capable of producing pre-press material of professional quality, but also to be a useful tool for any enthusiast with access to a printer.
http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/rel03
http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/
http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/screenshots.html
The main new feature in this development milestone is the independent definition of the AF Architecture: a modular n-tier component architecture specifically designed for business-managing application design.
ASPL Fact is a new invoicing system for GNU/Linux (although it should compile and work on every platform where glib is available). It's based on AF Architecture, and it's licensed under the GNU/General Public License.
BloGTK 0.8.5 adds support for HTTP proxies
BloGTK is a GNOME based weblog client
http://blogtk.sourceforge.net/
http://blogtk.sourceforge.net/screens.html
Agata Report is a cross-platform database reporting tool with graph generation and a query tool like Crystal Reports that allows you to get data from a variety of databases and export that data to a variety of formats through its graphical interface.
http://www.agata.org.br/news.php
http://www.agata.org.br/screenshots.php
The Gnucash team has released version 1.8.8 of the premier GNOME financial software. Added some account support for German businesses, improvements in HBCI and translations to name a few
Gnucash is a GNOME based financial package similar to Quicken
Gossip 0.6 features a new contact list, conversation loggings, grouped chat windows, and presence setting
Gossip has released freshly baked RPMS
Gossip is an instant messaging client for GNOME with an easy-to-use interface, providing users of the GNOME Desktop with a friendly way to keep in touch with their friends.
http://gossip.imendio.org/hackerlog/archives/000004.html
http://gossip.imendio.org/hackerlog/
The first stable version of Dasher has been released, aimed at the GNOME 2.4/2.5 desktops. New features includes integration with GNOME accessibility framework and gnome-speech, and ability to enter text directly into other applications
Dasher is a predictive text entry application wherever a a fullsize keyboard cannot be used. For example palmtop computers and PDAs.
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/WhatsNew.html
Java-Gnome 0.8.1 with full support of GTK/GNOME2 libraries, bug fixes, and performance enhancement adding to up to a major milestone for the Java-Gnome project
CVS, Bug tracking and all the other goodies will be back next week. I wasn't able to get all of that in order. Thanks
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