Robert Love (a.k.a rml) has put up the slides of the presentation that he gave at this year's FOSDEM conference. It is quite an interesting account of RML's vision of the Linux kernel and the Linux desktop. If there is anyone who has not been following the progress of Project Utopia, these slides should serve as a nice introduction.
Apparently there was some confusion about the identity of Robert Love, with some GNOME hackers commenting that "Novell cunningly sent a rock-star-like stand-in for Robert while the real Robert was probably still locked in a basement somewhere in wintery Boston hammering out code." Hopefully the mixup has been cleared up. ;-)
http://tech9.net/rml/talks/rml_fosdem_2004.sxi
http://www.advogato.org/person/thomasvs/diary.html?start=144
Brice Burgess has put up a nice preview of the upcoming GIMP 2.0 at newsforge. The author says - "The current onslaught of enhancements makes it much easier to adopt the GIMP as my default image editor and do away with the others" - and he is definitely right. Dockability rocks!!
http://www.newsforge.com/software/04/02/23/1914218.shtml
Chris Toshok has written about some updates to the contact editor that adds the ability to add instant messaging account information that contains location information. As of this writing, most IM services are supported. It might be interesting to get online status information if that's possible with the current UI format.
http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000158.html
Our special feature this week is a look at CVSGnome, a build system for GNOME developed by Ali Akgaac. We have written about the other build systems like jhbuild and garnome and a feature about CVSGnome the third GNOME build system seems appropriate. Ali has written up a description about what the project is, how it came about, and how to get started using it.
CVSGnome is a very known and successful build solution for people who like to build a bleeding edge GNOME Desktop. It's able to build from either released Tarballs or CVS depending on what the user likes.
The idea for CVSGnome came way back around 1999-2000 when I was sitting here at home compiling GNOME 1.x from sources and where I needed to enter configure && make && make install all the time.
After a while it became boring and thus I wrote a bash script which did the trick for me automagically. After some years passed, CVSGnome became a really mature build solution which is able to deal with CVS checkouts, and Tarballs. It's also able to deal with local copies of the checkouts and updates them whenever required. It works as a powerful wrapper to build other GTK+ or GNOME programs by exporting all sorts of required environment variables correctly. It can be burned on CD-Rom together with the Tarballs where it can be used to build a GNOME Desktop straight from CD-Rom. And last but not least it can be used in so called build farms to permanently update and build GNOME in real time.
So if you like to be on the bleeding edge desktop then CVSGnome is what you may consider trying because it has been proven for many years. A lot of care went into the script and it has a large user base.
Now some easy instructions:
1. Get CVSGnome from http://www.akcaagac.com/index_cvsgnome.html
Read the Instructions, FAQ and ChangeLog
2. Search for 'PREFIXDIR="/opt/gnome26"' inside the script and change it to a prefix you like to install GNOME e.g. 'PREFIXDIR="/home/>yourname</ gnome2"' or simply keep the defaults
3. Run the Script by executing either './cvsgnome world' to build from CVS or './cvsgnome world stable' to build from released Tarballs depending what you want.
4. That's all. Simply sit down and enjoy the show. There is no need to do anything else. No manual download of Tarballs or CVS, no creating of directories or whatever.
Of course your System should be suited with development tools like GCC, Binutils, Make, Patch, Docbook XML/XSLT Stylesheets and all kinds of headerfiles because without them you can't build anything.
Further German documentation can be found on the official German GNOME support site:
http://www.akcaagac.com/index_cvsgnome.html
http://tipps.gnome-de.org/installieren/cvsgnome.php
http://www.akcaagac.com/cvsgnome/pictures/cvsgnome01.png
http://www.akcaagac.com/cvsgnome/pictures/cvsgnome02.png
The latest unstable release of GTK+, Glib and Pango have been released for your bug testing pleasure. The notable things in this release are API/UI changes in the GTK Filechooser by Federico, Seth, and Jonathan Blandford(jrb) which have been posted in Footnotes previously.
GTK+ short for Gimp Tool Kit, is Free Software general purpose toolkit.
Several GNOME Fans put on a GNOME Booth at the 1st Open Source World Confernece in Malaga, Spain held in early February. The conference received a great deal of coverage due to the attendance of her Royal Majesty, the Principe de Asturias, Felipe de Borbon at the conference inauguration! GNOME was present with some nice displays and leaflets. Overall, over 8,000 attended, from students to CEOs. Much thanks to the Gnome Spanish folks in putting together the booth and getting our name out.
http://www.opensourceworldconference.com
http://fotos-andreu.lleida.com/congreso_malaga_2_2k4/congres
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
| Most active modules: | Most active hackers:
|
Currently open: 10530 (In the last week: New: 670, Resolved: 638, Difference: +32)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
| Module | Open Bugs | New/Opened in last week | Resolved in last week | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus: | 703 | 68 | 34 | +34 |
| gtk+: | 572 | 62 | 118 | -56 |
| control-center: | 257 | 26 | 19 | +7 |
| gnome-vfs: | 255 | 5 | 6 | -1 |
| GnuCash: | 226 | 3 | 5 | -2 |
| gnome-panel: | 211 | 27 | 34 | -7 |
| gnome-applets: | 158 | 41 | 30 | +11 |
| galeon: | 145 | 27 | 24 | +3 |
| GStreamer: | 134 | 23 | 29 | -6 |
| doxygen: | 134 | 13 | 2 | +11 |
| sawfish: | 121 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| balsa: | 121 | 2 | 1 | +1 |
| dia: | 120 | 3 | 29 | -26 |
| Gnumeric: | 110 | 10 | 8 | +2 |
| rhythmbox: | 108 | 15 | 13 | +2 |
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
| Bug Hunter | Bugs Resolved/Closed |
|---|---|
| otaylor redhat com: | 103 |
| lrclause uiuc edu: | 29 |
| ds nerds-incorporated org: | 23 |
| maclas gmx de: | 22 |
| gnome flowerday cx: | 18 |
| vincent vuntz net: | 17 |
| erikg wired-networks net: | 17 |
| louie ximian com: | 15 |
| hadess hadess net: | 15 |
| do baum ro: | 15 |
| bugsqueesher yahoo com: | 14 |
| sven gimp org: | 13 |
| chpe+gnomebugz stud uni-saarland de: | 12 |
| bill haneman sun com: | 11 |
| poobar nycap rr com: | 11 |
This is translation status for core Gnome 2.6 for 2004-02-28, with changes since 2004-02-22.
| Rank | Language | Status | Changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Albanian | 100.00% | up 0.01% |
| Portuguese | 100.00% | up 0.12% | |
| Serbian | 100.00% | up 0.01% | |
| 4. | Czech | 99.99% | down 0.01% |
| Korean | 99.99% | up 0.32% | |
| Polish | 99.99% | down 0.01% | |
| Swedish | 99.99% | no change | |
| 8. | Spanish | 99.94% | up 0.02% |
| 9. | Japanese | 99.85% | up 1.58% |
| 10. | German | 99.69% | up 0.15% |
| 11. | Greek | 99.02% | up 0.72% |
| 12. | Norwegian bokmal | 98.50% | up 0.94% |
| 13. | Dutch | 98.00% | up 1.25% |
| 14. | Azerbaijani | 96.71% | up 0.60% |
| 15. | French | 96.51% | up 2.82% |
| 16. | Croatian | 96.14% | down 0.19% |
| 17. | Mongolian | 95.70% | down 0.17% |
| 18. | Italian | 94.79% | up 5.73% |
| 19. | Lithuanian | 93.68% | up 1.08% |
| 20. | Danish | 92.43% | up 2.40% |
| 21. | Malay | 90.21% | up 0.96% |
| 22. | Brazilian Portuguese | 88.39% | up 0.42% |
| 23. | Welsh | 88.07% | up 3.38% |
| 24. | Russian | 87.42% | up 19.21% |
| 25. | Finnish | 87.19% | up 1.74% |
| 26. | Turkish | 86.94% | up 6.04% |
| 27. | Chinese Simplified | 86.74% | down 0.09% |
| 28. | Catalan | 86.43% | up 1.31% |
| 29. | Arabic | 83.94% | up 1.83% |
| 30. | Ukrainian | 83.48% | down 0.09% |
| 31. | Belarusian | 83.02% | down 0.08% |
| 32. | Canadian English | 76.24% | up 63.03% |
| 33. | Slovak | 75.62% | up 0.43% |
| 34. | Chinese Traditional | 73.53% | down 0.07% |
| 35. | Norwegian Nynorsk | 71.39% | up 1.20% |
| 36. | Vietnamese | 71.11% | down 0.07% |
| 37. | Slovenian | 70.09% | down 0.06% |
| 38. | Romanian | 65.96% | down 0.07% |
| 39. | Bengali | 63.38% | down 0.06% |
| 40. | Hindi | 61.67% | up 1.11% |
| 41. | Hungarian | 60.41% | down 0.05% |
| 42. | Macedonian | 60.23% | down 0.06% |
| 43. | Hebrew | 58.41% | down 0.06% |
| 44. | Indonesian | 51.30% | down 0.05% |
| 45. | Latvian | 51.28% | down 0.05% |
| 46. | Bulgarian | 50.48% | down 0.04% |
| 47. | Thai | 42.69% | up 23.82% |
| 48. | Estonian | 41.73% | up 4.44% |
| 49. | Malayalam | 33.20% | down 0.04% |
| 50. | Wallon | 32.41% | down 0.07% |
| 51. | Irish Gaelic | 29.42% | up 0.88% |
| 52. | Icelandic | 28.60% | down 0.03% |
| 53. | Limburgish | 23.96% | down 0.02% |
| 54. | Amharic | 23.22% | down 0.02% |
| 55. | Tamil | 23.19% | up 2.17% |
| 56. | Galician | 22.22% | down 0.03% |
| 57. | Persian | 21.71% | down 0.03% |
| 58. | Basque | 19.50% | down 0.03% |
| 59. | British English | 12.25% | up 0.16% |
| 60. | Nepali | 11.61% | down 0.01% |
| 61. | Yiddish | 9.64% | down 0.01% |
| 62. | Esperanto | 8.45% | no change |
| 63. | Kannada | 4.84% | no change |
| 64. | Marathi | 3.19% | down 0.01% |
| 65. | Afrikaans | 1.05% | no change |
| 66. | Bosnian | 1.04% | no change |
| 67. | Breton | 0.79% | down 0.01% |
| 68. | uz | 0.35% | no change |
| 69. | Interlingua | 0.21% | no change |
| 70. | Australian English | 0.00% | no change |
| Cornish | 0.00% | no change | |
| Gujarati | 0.00% | no change | |
| Manx Gaelic | 0.00% | no change | |
| Scots Gaelic | 0.00% | no change | |
| Telugu | 0.00% | no change |
Languages are ranked by the percentage of translated strings for developer platform and desktop. Rank for each language is determined as the number of languages that have a better percentage, increased by one. If languages share the same rank, then only the first in the list contains the rank field.
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