This is the GNOME Summary for 2004-02-22 - 2004-02-28
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Table of Contents
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1. Robert Love's Presentation from FOSDEM
2. GIMP 2.0 Previewed
3. Evolution UI updates
4. A Look at CVSGnome
5. GTK+/Glib/Pango 2.3.3 Unstable Released
6. Gnome Booth at Malaga!
7. Hacker Activity
8. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
9. Translation status
10. New and Updated Software
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1. Robert Love's Presentation from FOSDEM
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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
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2. GIMP 2.0 Previewed
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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
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3. Evolution UI updates
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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
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4. A Look at CVSGnome
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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
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5. GTK+/Glib/Pango 2.3.3 Unstable Released
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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.
http://www.gtk.org
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6. Gnome Booth at Malaga!
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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
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7. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
Most active modules:
137 gtk+
90 evolution
67 gimp
58 gnome-applets
56 beast
52 nautilus
44 gnome-media
42 muine
40 epiphany
40 gnome-panel
35 gnome-control-center
34 rhythmbox
34 galeon
31 eog
30 gdesklets
29 balsa
29 glib
28 conglomerate
28 gnome-utils
26 gnome-games
[182 active modules omitted]
Most active hackers:
95 adrighem
62 danilo
52 jordim
52 karunakar
50 laurenti
47 matthiasc
42 serrador
39 dsmit
36 pkst
36 alastairmck
36 plaes
36 timj
34 mitr
33 fejj
32 adamw
31 redfox
31 jbaayen
29 menthos
29 cwryu
27 owen
[179 active hackers omitted]
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8. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
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This information is from http://bugzilla.gnome.org, which hosts bug and feature
reports for most of the Gnome modules. If you would like to join the bug hunt,
subscribe to the gnome-bugsquad mailing list.
Currently open: 10530 (In the last week: New: 670, Resolved: 638, Difference:
+32)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests):
nautilus: 703 (In the last week: New: 68, Resolved: 34, Difference: +34)
gtk+: 572 (In the last week: New: 62, Resolved: 118, Difference: -56)
control-center: 257 (In the last week: New: 26, Resolved: 19, Difference: +7)
gnome-vfs: 255 (In the last week: New: 5, Resolved: 6, Difference: -1)
GnuCash: 226 (In the last week: New: 3, Resolved: 5, Difference: -2)
gnome-panel: 211 (In the last week: New: 27, Resolved: 34, Difference: -7)
gnome-applets: 158 (In the last week: New: 41, Resolved: 30, Difference: +11)
galeon: 145 (In the last week: New: 27, Resolved: 24, Difference: +3)
GStreamer: 134 (In the last week: New: 23, Resolved: 29, Difference: -6)
doxygen: 134 (In the last week: New: 13, Resolved: 2, Difference: +11)
sawfish: 121 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0)
balsa: 121 (In the last week: New: 2, Resolved: 1, Difference: +1)
dia: 120 (In the last week: New: 3, Resolved: 29, Difference: -26)
Gnumeric: 110 (In the last week: New: 10, Resolved: 8, Difference: +2)
rhythmbox: 108 (In the last week: New: 15, Resolved: 13, Difference: +2)
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
otaylor redhat com: 103 bugs closed.
lrclause uiuc edu: 29 bugs closed.
ds nerds-incorporated org: 23 bugs closed.
maclas gmx de: 22 bugs closed.
gnome flowerday cx: 18 bugs closed.
vincent vuntz net: 17 bugs closed.
erikg wired-networks net: 17 bugs closed.
louie ximian com: 15 bugs closed.
hadess hadess net: 15 bugs closed.
do baum ro: 15 bugs closed.
bugsqueesher yahoo com: 14 bugs closed.
sven gimp org: 13 bugs closed.
chpe+gnomebugz stud uni-saarland de: 12 bugs closed.
bill haneman sun com: 11 bugs closed.
poobar nycap rr com: 11 bugs closed.
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9. Translation status
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This is translation status for core Gnome 2.6 for 2004-02-28, with changes
since 2004-02-22.
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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10. New and Updated Software
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Muine - Music player
Qalculate! - A multi-purpose desktop calculator.
rubrica - address book, pim
GNOME Desktop Themes - GNOME Desktop Themes
Meld - Meld: a diff and merge tool.
GNOME Terminal - terminal console application
GtkSourceView - Source editor widget
BananaPos - Point Of Sale
GnoCHM - A CHM file viewer
gDesklets - GNOME Desktop Applets
For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map:
http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php
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