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From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
To: gnome-hackers@nuclecu.unam.mx, gnome-list@gnome.org
Subject: Life after the GNOME freeze
X-Windows: The defacto substandard.
Hello hackers,
Well, the freeze is about to happen, and some of you might find a
void empty in your hearts due to the lack of some code to modify
wildly. The freeze right now applies to gnome-libs and gnome-core,
other modules will be gradually frozen.
There are still various sorts of changes that can be commited to
the GNOME CVS in the frozen modules. If you are uncertain about a
patch you want to commit, please post your patch first to the
gnome-hackers@nuclecu.unam.mx mailing list to get approval.
Do not worry, hacking has not finished, there are many things to do
in the meantime and we will appreciate a lot your help on these
issues:
- Balsa, the mail reader needs help. We would be grateful if
you could help us finish the mail reader.
- ORBit needs to provide a way to not block on message
reception (contact sopwith@cuc.edu for work on this area).
- Session management: Many gnome applications have Session
management, but many do not, or have problems.
We would like to ask everyone to try gnome-session and
start/stop their sessions and make sure every gnome
application that we will ship has a fully working session
management setup.
- Localization of GNOME. I have created a list to cordinate
the efforts of localization.
We need volunteers to localize the message catalogs (the
.po files in the GNOME distirbution)
We need volunteers to localize the .keys file (these are
the mime-type specific actions).
We need volunteers to localize the .desktop files.
To subscribe to the list, send a mail with a subject of
"subscribe" to gnome-i18n-request@nuclecu.unam.mx
- Nice icons for the file manager.
We need 48x48 icons that are suitable for file types in the
file manager. A complete list of the icons we need is on
the gnome-icons CVS module.
Currently the file manager is using some very ugly and old
icons I found, and they need to be replaced.
We would like to have the icons keep the spirit of the
current gnome icons.
If you have artistic talent, please let us know and share
your icons with us.
- API documentation
There is a setup for documenting the GNOME api
- Bug fixes
During the next few days we will encounter many bug reports
about GNOME. GNOME needs to be rock solid and has to be as
clean as possible.
Commiting bug fixes is highly encouraged.
- More file manager sugar
There are a number of features that we want to add to the
file manager, feel free to contact me for them (or look at
mc/gnome/gnome.TODO for details).
- Improving existing GNOME applications
There are a number of other GNOME applications that are not
yet frozen, improving them, and writing documentation for
them is also another thing you can do.
- Consistency.
The applications should have a uniform menu system and
keybindings should be considered buggy and should be fixed
as soon as possible.
- Portability problems.
If GNOME does not compile on a platform, we are very
interested in getting patches to make it work on that
platform.
I am sure this list is incomplete, please, feel free to comment on it.
Thanks a lot to all of the GNOME programmers that have worked so hard
during the past 16 months to make GNOME possible.
Best wishes,
Miguel.
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From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
To: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org
Subject: GNOME 0.99.1 release is out.
X-Info: When in doubt, blame the network
Hello free software users,
The GNOME team has just released updated versions of a number of
GNOME packages that fix a share of bugs that were reported with the
gnome 0.99 release.
The following packages have been released:
- The GNOME libraries (gnome-libs-0.99.1.tar.gz)
- The GNOME core applications (gnome-core-0.99.1.tar.gz)
- ORBit 0.3.91.tar.gz
- The GNOME file manager (mc-4.5.4.tar.gz)
- Gnumeric 0.5 (gnumeric-0.5.tar.gz).
These introduce a number of bug fixes to the problems reported by
the users on the version 0.99 of GNOME, some of the most important
highlights of this version are:
- Reduced memory usage in various applications.
- Memory leak fixes.
- Improved stability in various applications.
- Bug fixes
GMC got the following features:
- New menu layout.
- Improved and accelerated desktop icon management.
You can fetch the files from the GNOME ftp site:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources
Instructions for building GNOME are available at:
http://www.gnome.org/start/gnometar.shtml
Best wishes,
Miguel.
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From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
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Subject: GNOME 0.99.5 is out
X-Mexico: Este es un pais de orates, un pais amateur.
Hello guys,
A new universe of joy and entertainment has been released for all
free software enthusiasts.
This release has been extremely painful to me in terms of time
waste. I ran out of disk space every 20 minutes in the middle of make
distcheck and the whole process needs to be restarted again.
If you have big hard drives you want to donate me or extra memory,
please contact me.
* Availability:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/latest
Diffs against previous versions of this are also available on the
site.
* Released modules:
- gnome-libs-0.99.5
- gnome-network-0.99.5
- gnome-pim-0.99.5
- gnome-utils-0.99.5
- mc-4.5.10
- gnome-games
* gnome-network
* First release of GnomePPP, a ppp front end by Jay Painter.
(the author of EzPPP, which is the foundation for kppp as well).
* GnomeTalk got some small updates
* Midnight Commander
* VFS changes:
* Support for Amiga FTP servers (Norbert)
* Support for Novell4 FTP servers (Pavel)
* Bug fixes.
* Misc changes:
* Full movement to glib for allocation/deallocation of memory.
(Timur Bakeyev)
* Lots of bug fixes from various hackers (Norbert, Alexander).
* Slang setup should work again with sysmte-installed slangs
(Norbert).
* Various calls to _() were missing. They are now in.
* GNOME front:
* Much improved properties dialog box which now supports
setting the metadata properties of the files and the icon as
well (Jonathan/Dave Camp).
* Code for accepting DnD from netscape is there. Do not know
why it is failing to accept the drops (me).
* Many Drag and Drop consistency and little detail fixing (Federico).
* Default gmc is now the corba-gmc. This also means that by
default if a gmc is running, re-running gmc will only request
the running instance to open a new window.
* Tree fixes.
* Dialogs now popup close to the mouse instead of randomly on the screen.
* Selection code now mimics the rest of Gtk in the list-view.
* Use more icons from Tigert.
* Delete dialog box has its own dialog (finally!) (Jonathan).
* gnome-core
* gsm now implements run-levels (Felix)
* gmenu: updated, made better, add DnD (Nat Friedman)
* Panel takes DnD from Netscape (George).
* Panel memory usage reduction, smarter menu code. (George).
* Initial work on adding help hooks to the applications and the
applets all over the place (Nat Friedman)
* Russian translation is quickly catching up.
* Added documentation to gnome-terminal
* Various small fixes and updates.
* gnome-pim
* Mostly a bug fix release.
* Alarms should work properly.
* Text events are fitted into the week-view instead of
cropped
* Drag and Drop added to GnomeCard.
* Many bug fixes to GnomeCard and GnomeCal
* Documentation for gnomecard by Arturo Espinosa
* gnome-games
* New games: gnobots2, gnometris/metatris
Yes. That is 2 different versions of tetris (Chris and
Marcin).
* Gnothello was renamed to something else. (Ian)
* Gnothello has spify property pages now! (Ian)
* Fixed the menu standarization. We are back to the old standard.
* Added documentation
* gnome-utils
* GHex Code revamp (Jaka Mocnik)
* GHex includes documentation now.
* Assorted bug fixes in the various components
* Help hooks added (Nat)
* gnome-libraries
* Added support for run-levels in the session management code,
this allows application to register in which order they have to
be executed.
* Support for SM spec 7.2 (workarounds for xsm bugs and speed up
the startup).
* Various canvas bug fixes that caused the Calendar to crash.
* Documentation on how to handle session-management.
* Updated consistency guidelines for GNOME applications.
* Removed use of some deprecated GTK+ functions.
* Session management fixes/updates/enhancements.
* gnome_fileconvert code is in a usable shape now.
* More inline-api documentation and libgnome passes all the
warnings from gtk-doc so you can generate your own Docbook
api reference manuals for it now.
* More utility functions to help you integrate the help system
into your applications
* Multi-depth display fixes.
* Addresses the The Big Cache discussion. You need a new
gtk-themes (from CVS at the time of this writing for this
change to work).
* Reduced memory usage in the icon-list
* Many small bug fixes and little problems reported have been
fixed. GUI improvements in some default widgets.
* Portability fixes.
* Translations updated.
Contributors on this release: Andrew Veliath, Carsten Schaar,
Federico Mena, Felix Bellaby, George Lebl, Havoc Pennington, Jaka
Mocnik, Jeff Garzik, John Ellis, Jonathan Bladford, Miguel de Icaza,
Nat Friedman, Radek Doulik, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhemi, Tomas
Ogren, Ulrich Drepper.
Sorry, I could not keep track of the hackers on the other modules as
I did on gnome-libs.
Enjoy,
Miguel