Jeff has unleashed the latest development release of GNOME. Please help test and more importantly, file bugs against this release. Remember this is a development release of GNOME and is not considered to be stable.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-February/msg00337.html
Jeff Waugh, release coordinator for the GNOME releases gives us an update on the current GNOME release schedule. The schedule has been updated to take into account a two week slip in our release schedule due to a less than stellar test release dependability and waiting on a stable release of GTK+. Owen and the GTK+ team will be meeting next week to discuss the GTK+ schedule and the GNOME release schedule - which will be adapted to accommodate whatever plans become known from that meeting.
Jeff states besides that, things are looking pretty solid, and the bug squad team has been doing a damn good job of applying bug spray to GNOME bugs. Jeff also notes that none of the freeze dates have changed due to the slip.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-February/msg00322.html
Malcolm Tredinnick, a GNOME Foundation Board Member has been maintaining a list of conferences that would be ideal to have GNOME represented at. Malcolm is interested in getting a complete list of conferences. So if you have a conference that you think GNOME should be represented at. Please contact Malcolm directly and send in your suggestion.
In the future there will be a place at www.gnome.org that we can place all of the conference listings that will have or need GNOME representatives. You're input will help make the list more accurate.
http://www.gnome.org/~malcolm/conferences.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-February/msg00014.html
One of the big plus points of GNOME is that a lot of attention is paid to even the most minute detail, resulting in a highly polished and integrated system. Steven Garrity takes a look at some of the small "GUI perks" of GNOME, and points out some of the areas where GNOME goes beyond Windows XP or Mac OS X in terms of polish and overall integration.
http://www.actsofvolition.com/archives/2004/february/gettingtoknow
Evolution 1.5 now properly displays what takes place while you drag folders, messages and other things around - and it looks really nifty.
There have been other updates in Evolution too especially in the documentation section and mailer part, where there has been a lot of bug fixes. Use the version from CVS if you are facing stability issues with version 1.5.3.
http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000145.html
http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000147.html
Edd Dumbill recently hacked BlueFOAF to talk to Dashboard. BlueFOAF discovers the people nearby, parses the FOAF information from them for useful stuff and sends it to Dashboard.
http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/2004/2/11#21:39
Do you use GNOME in your daily activities? At work? At home? Have you had the experience of having somebody else look at your nice GNOME desktop and ask about it? If so, and you would like to share your experiences, please write to us.
We are trying to collect stories and testimonials from everyday GNOME users that will help to encourage our developers, documenters, testers and artists. These can also be useful in encouraging wider adoption of GNOME - people generally will use what others are using.
Contributions can be attributed to the author or anonymous. If you don't mind them being used for other publicity purposes, please let us know that too. We will publish all reasonable submissions over time in the weekly GNOME summaries.
Please send your GNOME success stories to gnome-summary@gnome.org.
Please note, that your submissions will be tagged with the Creative Commons License by default. The stories will be displayed on GNOME Summary on a week-to-week basis.
Arturo Gonzalez has written a first draft of "GNOME aplets with Python Tutorial" is available. This is a great way of using Python to create some quick applets to do any number of things. If you have any comments, criticisms, and features regarding the tutorial, please contact Arturo.
http://www.ugr.es/~arturogf/applets/
http://www.ugr.es/~arturogf/applets/python-applets.xml
Gcalctool has been receiving a lot of love from Sami Pietila as of late. He's been working on improving Gcalctool by fixing some of it's limitations. Namely, he's been working on handling arithmetic operator precedence, adding expression parsing, and better handling of incorrect syntax of user input. Eventually this will lead to Gcalctool being able to use reverse polish notation (RPN). These are features that users have been requesting and now Sami is making them into a reality!
Gcalctool-ng is still a work in progress, and is currently being worked on in a separate CVS branch. You can obtain it through CVS by cvs co -r gcalctool-ng gcalctool. You can also get a tarball as well. Look in the links session.
The team would like feedback on the changes to Galctool-ng. So if you have a couple of moments to check out the tool please send some feedback to the team so they can continue making Gcalctool a superior tool for when you need to do calculations.
http://users.utu.fi/~sampie/gcalctool/gcalctool-5.3.42.tar.gz
Federico Mena Quintero, the maintainer of GtkFileChooser, GTK's new file dialog box, sent out a public service announcement stating that he has fixed an important bug that set the dialog size too small. People added their own calls to gtk_window_set_default_size() to get around this problem. Federico requests that you no longer need to set your default size and you should remove it from your code.
Glynn Foster sent out mail regarding GNOME presentation materials. Those of you who are planning on participating in a conference and want to present talks or tutorails now have the opportunity to build on the work of others! Sevearl presentations are already available. So if there's a conference coming up and you want to help promote GNOME, this is the place to go.
Reciprocally, if you have presentations that you would like to share with others, please mail marketing-list@gnome.org with the URL of the location of your presentation. Language is no bar, the foundation board will accept any presentation.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-February/msg00296.html
Matthias Clasen has put in some work to update the GNOME Developer API docs to include all of the libraries that are part of the GNOME developer platform. Documentation, especially of the core API, is an important factor in GNOME adoption. Thanks Matthias!
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-February/msg00186.html
Alvaro Pena has been busily working on a file sharing add-on for Nautilus. The technology currently will use Apache or some other supported web server if it's installed on the system. It's an interesting feature and if you are interested in contributing or in giving some feedback on the current implementation, please join the gnome-network mailing list and participate!
The file-sharing Nautilus extension is available in GNOME CVS under the gnome-sharing module.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-February/msg00183.html
Daniel Stone, release coordinator of freedesktop.org has set up a mailing list on discussing the fd.o platform. If you're interested please think of joining. Daniel sent this out last week and it was not covered in the GNOME Summary and decided it would be mentioned this week.
A new version of Inkscape was released today. Inkscape includes many major features, bug fixes and an extensive code base clean up. Some of these includes, an SVG viewer, letter spacing, path outlining and many more! Also a tutorial for new users is included. Download and let Inkscape folks know whats going on. Looking at the screenshots, the HIG work looks nice.
Inkscape is an open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc.
http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes037
http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php
Currently open: 10541 (In the last week: New: 690, Resolved: 806, Difference: -116)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
| Module | Open Bugs | New/Opened in last week | Resolved in last week | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus: | 701 | 74 | 121 | -47 |
| gtk+: | 636 | 34 | 42 | -8 |
| gnome-vfs: | 259 | 6 | 8 | -2 |
| control-center: | 255 | 11 | 16 | -5 |
| GnuCash: | 226 | 12 | 4 | +8 |
| gnome-panel: | 221 | 40 | 25 | +15 |
| gnome-applets: | 155 | 28 | 25 | +3 |
| dia: | 146 | 22 | 10 | +12 |
| galeon: | 145 | 38 | 36 | +2 |
| GStreamer: | 129 | 20 | 39 | -19 |
| sawfish: | 120 | 1 | 0 | +1 |
| balsa: | 119 | 5 | 15 | -10 |
| metacity: | 115 | 12 | 10 | +2 |
| doxygen: | 111 | 12 | 11 | +1 |
| Gnumeric: | 108 | 11 | 7 | +4 |
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
| Bug Hunter | Bugs Resolved/Closed |
|---|---|
| bugsqueesher yahoo com: | 98 |
| hailstorm fairadsl co uk: | 54 |
| gnome flowerday cx: | 28 |
| otaylor redhat com: | 24 |
| sven gimp org: | 22 |
| daniel veillard com: | 21 |
| alexl redhat com: | 19 |
| maclas gmx de: | 19 |
| chpe+gnomebugz stud uni-saarland de: | 18 |
| poobar nycap rr com: | 18 |
| thomas apestaart org: | 18 |
| padraig obriain sun com: | 17 |
| marco gnome org: | 16 |
| louie ximian com: | 16 |
| ds schleef org: | 16 |
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
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