FootNotes - GNOME Desktop News

• 10 ideas to improve GNOME

  Published 510 days ago

  A GNOME enthusiast shares 10 nice ideas about how to improve GNOME, adding some more polish and usefulness. Furthermore, most of those ideas are not of the blue sky type, and could be implemented in a short time.

  See the article here: http://www.venturecake.com/10-ideas-to-improve-gnome/

• Anjuta DevStudio 2.2.0 (stable) -- Hurricane -- released!

  Published 513 days ago

  Anjuta 2.2.0 (Hurricane) marks the first stable release of 2.x series. After several beta releases and lots of bug fixing work we have finally managed to deliver what we have promised for long; a GNOME IDE that integrates seamlessly with your favorite development tools. Check out the announcement for release note and changes.

  We will continue our dedication to make your hacker's life as smooth as watching TV. Your continued suggestions and feedbacks is our never ending source of inspiration, so don't forget to drop us some bug reports when you get a chance.

• The GNOME Journal, June Edition

  Published 513 days ago

  The latest issue of the GNOME Journal has just been published! It features an article about GStreamer audio effects, an interview with Ken VanDine about GNOME 2.18 Live Media releases, an introduction to Accerciser, and a summary of GNOME.conf.au 2007. Writers in this edition are Stefan Kost, Paul Cutler, Eitan Isaacson, and Davyd Madeley, respectively.

  Read now: http://www.gnomejournal.org

• Cleanup your GNOME GConf database

  Published 526 days ago

  The other day I stumbled upon this neat tool that helps cleanup your GConf registry, called GConf Cleaner. While GNOME registry size isn't nowhere near the size of Windows registry, and thus shouldn't slow your computer too much, it's still nice to have a tool that cleans unused and obsolete entries.

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  gconf-cleaner is a Google Summer of Code project.

• Linux.com: Sabayon makes managing multiple GNOME user profiles simple

  Published 530 days ago

  If you have multiple users sharing a single computer, you could probably use an easy way to manage their user profiles. Sabayon can help you create and set up GNOME desktop profiles and assign them to different users.

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• Foresight Linux 1.3 Released

  Published 539 days ago

  Timed to be released with GNOME 2.18.2, the Foresight Linux team is happy and proud to announce the release of Foresight Linux 1.3. For more information, view the release notes or download Foresight Linux, including a number of Live Media images, today.

  Foresight Linux continues to build on it’s success of releasing a stable Linux distribution with the latest software, including GNOME and applications such as Banshee for music management, F-Spot for photo management, Pidgin and Ekiga for internet communication and OpenOffice.org for productivity and office applications. Providing the latest versions of applications gives our users access to the latest bug fixes, and the use of Conary as a package manager makes it easy for users to update the software on their desktop.

• Bounties offered for Planner Features

  Published 540 days ago

  Bounties for new features to be added to Planner are being offered by Intouch.
  Requested features are:
  1) Ability to produce variance reports
  2) Ability to filter projects by resource
  3) Ability to link projects via a milestone
  4) Automatic email to resources when a part of their schedule has been changed
  Details can be found here. If you're interested in pursuing one or more of them, please post your name on the bounties page.
  The Planner-dev-list is a good place to discuss implementation details and toss ideas around.

• GUADEC 2007 Registration Open

  Published 541 days ago

  Registration for GUADEC 2007 is now open. Held annually in cities around Europe, GUADEC is the largest get together of GNOME users, developers, foundation leaders, individuals, governments and businesses in the world. In its 8th consecutive year; GUADEC 2007 is being held at the UCE Birmingham Conservatoire, in Birmingham, England, from Sunday 15th July, until Saturday 21st of July 2007.

  Keynote speakers this year include well known Free/Open Source advocates from both within and outside the GNOME project. Stormy Peters, Paula le Dieu, Ari Jaaksi, Doc Searls will all be giving keynote talks, as well as community members such as Robert Love, Alex Gravely, Havoc Pennington and Bryan Clark, and Jono Bacon.

• GNOME Roadmap Released

  Published 544 days ago

  The GNOME Roadmap for 2.20 (and partially for 2.22 and future 2.x releases) is available at:

    http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap

  The GNOME Roadmap is a big-picture view of functionality we expect GNOME to include in short-term and long-term future. The roadmap is based on feedback from current GNOME developers and other community members.

• Wine-doors 0.1pre1 released

  Published 548 days ago

  I think I've delayed it from the masses for too long now, so here's a pre-release for your consideration. The idea is to get one of these out a week until its stable and functional enough to get a release candidate out.

  You can see screenshots of the latest release here
  You can download a copy (tarball) here
  You can post bug reports here

• Anjuta DevStudio 2.1.3 released

  Published 558 days ago

  This is the next beta release of Anjuta 2.x series (The Wind). Anjuta 2.1.3 release contains many bug fixes including cygwin fixes, sun cc fixes, debugger fixes, project view fixes, dock fixes and other stability improvements. Check out the announcement for release note and changes.

  Please make sure you also install latest gdl and gnome-build packages to take full advantage of all improvements.

  Anjuta is a versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for GNOME desktop. It features a number of advanced programming facilities that include project management, application wizards, an on-board interactive debugger, integrated glade UI designer, integrated devhelp API help, integrated valgrind memory profiler, integrated gprof performance profiler, class generator, powerful source editor, source browsing and many more.

• Release of Foundations of GTK Development

  Published 559 days ago

  Foundations of GTK Development is the first book completely dedicated to GTK development since 2001. It contains examples and instructions for using almost every single widget available in GTK 2.10. In addition, five appendixes provide a reference to often under-documented properties and signals.

  Special care is taken to make chapters as independent of each other so that, once you learn the basics, you can skip around and learn the widgets that are most important to your current project. The companion web site for the book can be found at www.gtkbook.com.

• Cross Desktop Text Layout Summit 2007

  Published 572 days ago

  The Akademy team is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the Text Layout Summit 2007 during our week in Glasgow at the start of July. This is the second Text Layout Summit following the success of the event at Gnome's Boston Summit last year. Experts from the free software world's top text rendering apps and libraries are expected including Qt, Pango and the cross platform effort of HarfBuzz. Register before the end of Monday if you want us to book your accommodation.

• The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initative

  Published 580 days ago

  THE GNOME FOUNDATION AND INDUSTRY LEADERS JOIN TO CREATE GNOME MOBILE &
  EMBEDDED INITIATIVE

  Developers and Corporations Unite to Advance GNOME Technology as Leading
  User Experience Platform for Mobile and Embedded Devices.

  Embedded Linux Conference, Santa Clara, USA -- April 19, 2007 -- The GNOME
  Foundation announced today the creation of the GNOME Mobile & Embedded
  Initiative (GMAE), and a software platform for user experience development
  across a wide range of device profiles.

  "GNOME continues to drive the cutting edge of Open Source and Free Software
  innovation. With the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative, GNOME expands the

• Pimlico Project announced

  Published 587 days ago

  Pimlico is a suite of lightweight Personal Information Management (PIM) applications designed primarily for handheld and mobile devices.

  Pimlico builds upon the GTK toolkit and the Embedded Evolution Data Server, which together provide a solid foundation for the applications. This also allows for easy porting to various GTK based mobile frameworks such as Maemo and OpenMoko as well as desktop usage.

  Pimlico consists of four applications: Contacts, an addressbook; Dates, a calendar; Tasks, a to do list; and Sync, a synchronisation tool.

  For more information, see http://pimlico-project.org/.