The new point release of the stable GNOME 2.4 series have been released. Congratulations to the GNOME team, who consists of translators, documentors, bug hunters, maintainers, and all of you who have contributed your time and effort in improving GNOME through your feedback.
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.4/2.4.2/sources/
A new version of the Development release of GNOME is ready for testing!
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2004-February/msg00007.html
David Neary would like to remind the GNOME community that the closing date for submitting abstracts is only a couple weeks away. If you have an interesting item that you would like to present at GUADEC now is a good time to start planning it.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2004-February/msg00005.html
Epiphany Extensions is released. This release includes, a sample extension so you can write your own, popup blocker, mouse gestures, certificate viewer, and a lot more. If you're interested in extending Epiphany with more features. Check this out!
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2004-February/msg00006.html
Colin Walters has released the development version of Rhythmbox. This versions adds a lot of features and bug fixes. It requires the recently released version of Gstreamer 0.7.4 in order to compile it. Please try it out and send in bug reports!
Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2004-February/msg00044.html
The Gstreamer team have released their next version of their modular media framework software. The 0.7 series is a development release and is aimed at developers. This release contains many new features and bug releases including reworked error notification and a new element capabilities system. The capabilities system allows developers to write bug free features like video resizing amongst other things.
GStreamer is a library that allows the construction of graphs of media-handling components, ranging from simple mp3 playback to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.
http://www.freedesktop.org/~gstreamer/releases/gstreamer/0.7.4.html
Ross Burton has released a new version of Sound Juicer. Some nice features include adding estimated duration and ripping speeds for those of you who are time conscious. For those who've been trying to corner Ross into admitting that his release name are weird, well he admits that too.
Sound Juicer is a GNOME2 CD Ripper.
http://www.burtonini.com/computing/sound-juicer-0.5.10.tar.gz
Mark McLoughlin recently imported a project he's been working on called Vino. Vino adds remote desktop functionality using the RFB protocol commonly used as VNC. Vino distinguishes itself from the other VNC servers out there by being integrated with GNOME and adding security features. It also lets you export the current desktop.
http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsblame.cgi?file=vino/docs/remote-desktop.txt
A new release of GNOME System Tools is out. UI Polish and bug fixes, and adding support for PLD 1.1 and 1.99 are the highlights for this release.
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-system-tools/0.32/
James Henstridge, author of jhbuild, has checked in a lot of new features into jhbuild. Jhbuild now has a GUI that you can launch. Unattended building with a HTML page giving a summary of how to build went, a build environment sanity check, and some modifications so that you can load module information through the web. Building Gnome2 from CVS will be a whole lot easier now. Additionally, these changes paves the way to daily snapshots of Gnome to share.
jhbuild is a build system written in python similar to other build systems like CVSGnome
http://www.daa.com.au/~james/files/jhbuild-tbox/
Pictures and also a short blurb on how the Solutions Linux GNOME booth went. It looked like a lot of excitement and fun during the conference explaining Gnome to the French corporate world. Thanks again to all who spent time and energy in making the booth a success. Gael Chamoulaud (strider) has written GNOME Marketing brochure written in French that was given out at the booth.
http://www.advogato.org/person/sdodji/
http://www.gnome.org/~strider/photos/SolutionsLinux2004
http://www.gnomefr.org/apropos/pourquoi_gnome.pdf
http://redfox.redfoxcenter.org/gallery/SolutionsGNULinux2004?page=1
I'd like to thank everyone who responded to our call for developers! We're feeling a lot of love out there for GNOME and for it's goal. We really appreciate it! It also tells us that there is a lot of people out there who would like to be involved. We hope to involve as many people as we can with GNOME whether you're a technical or non-technical or an ordinary user.
Currently open: 10678 (In the last week: New: 719, Resolved: 652, Difference: +67)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
| Module | Open Bugs | New/Opened in last week | Resolved in last week | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus: | 739 | 63 | 40 | +23 |
| gtk+: | 637 | 37 | 50 | -13 |
| control-center: | 263 | 17 | 21 | -4 |
| gnome-vfs: | 253 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| GnuCash: | 221 | 8 | 3 | +5 |
| gnome-panel: | 215 | 32 | 30 | +2 |
| gnome-applets: | 159 | 35 | 50 | -15 |
| galeon: | 146 | 31 | 38 | -7 |
| GStreamer: | 137 | 36 | 29 | +7 |
| dia: | 130 | 9 | 3 | +6 |
| balsa: | 126 | 5 | 1 | +4 |
| GIMP: | 124 | 51 | 69 | -18 |
| balsa: | 126 | 5 | 1 | +4 |
| GIMP: | 124 | 51 | 69 | -18 |
| sawfish: | 119 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| gnome-terminal: | 113 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| rhythmbox: | 112 | 27 | 19 | +8 |
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
| Bug Hunter | Bugs Resolved/Closed |
|---|---|
| sven gimp org: | 32 |
| gnome flowerday cx: | 32 |
| maclas gmx de: | 31 |
| martin wehner epost de: | 24 |
| padraig obriain sun com: | 22 |
| vincent vuntz net: | 21 |
| mark skynet ie: | 21 |
| kfv101 psu edu: | 19 |
| bugsqueesher yahoo com: | 15 |
| jody gnome org: | 14 |
| walters verbum org: | 13 |
| quinet gamers org: | 13 |
| walters verbum org: | 13 |
| quinet gamers org: | 13 |
| otaylor redhat com: | 13 |
| hadess hadess net: | 12 |
| bill haneman sun com: | 12 |
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
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