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Submitted by stro on Tue, 2004-12-14 13:27. PlanetGNOME
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Another installment of GNOME related happenings from PlanetGNOME.

Sebastien Biot talks about the creation of posters for volunteers to print and take with them wherever they present the GNOME project. He also talks about the first official GNOME Marketing meeting.

Martin Sevior talks about a guy showing a method for using AbiWord to design websites.

Alvaro del Castillo talks about a new project with goals to create an Evolution 2.2 OpenGroupware 1.0 connector. Anders Carlsson also talks about the project.

Calum Benson shares his weekly GNOME accessibility bug nag list.

Davyd Madeley plays with HAL and shows some screenshots.

Calum Benson talks about adding color to gcalctool.

Federico Mena-Quintero talks about the new features of GTK+ 2.4.14

Christian Schaller points to a screenshot of Buzztard, a free replacement (or clone) of the currently windows only and closed source software Buzz, which is a music production environment.

Owen Taylor shows off some screenshots of his toy window manager, Luminocity.

Jordi Mallach talks about GNOME 2.8 landing in Sarge. Also here.

James Henstridge talks about efforts to taking place to remove most of the bonobo code from Nautilus.

Ronald Bultje talks about testing work being done on the gstreamer backend in Totem as well as the availability of testing RPMS.

Bryan Forbes writes about a new version of Coaster.

Bryan Clark shows some mockup ideas for some cool program start-up action.

Paul Drain shares a new Garnome.

Garrett LeSage shares a new version of the Industrial Firefox theme with priority text and other nice little things.

Christian Schaller talks about the pains of relicensing in Gstreamer.

Hubert Figuiere talks about the Abiword 2.2.1 release and the release of a Windows version of Gnumeric.

Miguel de Icaza talks about new releases of Mono.

Dave Neary talks about the gathering of notible GNOME deployments. Also here.

Jon Trowbridge writes about a new Beagle release.

The Evolution team is having another EPlugin Hackfest.

Jamin Philip Gray shows off a couple of nifty X-chat/Firefox Bookmark hacks.

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HAL eth0

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-12-16 01:02.

Thanks once again for an awesome summary!

So this HALification of network cards...does this mean I can plug my external G-card into my PCMCIA slot and have it auto-mount and connect?

If you say yes I'm gonna lose it. This would be perfect!

This is all handled in Networ

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-12-16 01:34.

This is all handled in NetworkManager which is a HAL based network policy layer that replaces sysconfig or /etc/network/interfaces (etc) on your desktop based system. This already works and is shipped with some distrobutions.

The stuff in g-netstatus is purely cosmetic, the idea is to use HAL to learn all the important information we can, display nice names for cards, and generally do a whole lot less polling if we can help it. It does work separately of NetworkManager, because that's how I'm developing it.

--davyd

I really like these summaries, but....

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-12-15 09:17.

I really enjoy reading these short summaries with links to blogs and news items, etc. However, if would be very helpful if you included a SHORT blurb indicating what a particular appplication is. For example:

Miguel de Icaza talks about new releases of Mono.

Should be something like:

Miguel de Icaza talks about new releases of Mono (the Novell/Ximian Open-Source Implementation of the DotNet framework).

Thanks and keep up the good work.

I think this might be ok for

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2004-12-17 19:25.

I think this might be ok for some new programs to the community, but mono is well known as well as many others. I don't think it's necessary for mono/gaim/gstreamer/etc. The luminocity sentence is good, just letting people know it's a toy window manager. Very good job on buzztard also.

This update wasn't as interesting as others, but that's ok. Great job! Keep up the good work.

Does it mean there will be no

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-12-15 04:58.

Does it mean there will be no views for nautilus other than icon/list?

I wouldn't care by Anonymous George

bug fixing

Submitted by murraycu on Wed, 2004-12-15 06:15.

> if they would just start to fix the hundreds of ugly, weird bugs.

This is clearly an attempt to do exactly that.

Extensions...

Submitted by isak on Wed, 2004-12-15 05:17.

I assume you're talking about the removal of Bonobo in nautilus.

I recall reading about a new nautilus extensions system that will replace Bonobo for "plugin architecture". Don't know what it will provide though, but nautilus will still be extensible by some means.

That seems to be the case for

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-12-15 05:22.

That seems to be the case for context menus and property pages only, which is why i'm asking.