Hi, So Gimmie 0.2.8 was just released, and fixes many of the issues I outlined in the proposal mail. It's the most solid release yet, with lots of testing and most major bugs fixed. Check it out!
Details inline... On Sep 24, 2007 12:27 PM, Alex Graveley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Issues that I see: > > * There has not been a new release since 0.2.7, in June. A new > release is brewing, and the Gimmie community is stepping up the > release engineering around a solid 0.3 release. Done =) > * Lack of dedicated maintainer resources. Admittedly, I've been > somewhat lax in my duties due to time pressures. Luckily, several > volunteers have stepped up recently offering to take the reins here > for more reliable releasing. Work is in progress on getting new maintainers up to speed, and I'm confident I can find the requisite time needed. > * There is an experimental standalone panel version of Gimmie. > This can be branched into a sub-project, or simply not installed by > default. I am *not* proposing to expose this panel alternative as > part of GNOME. There are many other interesting panel alternatives > which are seeing a lot of love. Left the standalone dock in for now, as no one weighed in either way on hiding/removing it. > * Non-functional placeholders for future features should be removed > (Flickr, Google Office, Friendster integration). > * GMail contact integration needs to be fixed or removed by default. These are all removed for now. Expect awesome support for all these services and more in the 0.3 release. > * Ditto for Gaim/Pidgin online status setting. Fixed. > * The Tomboy note category may not be useful to include by default. No feedback as yet. > * There are a few experimental UI features that should be removed > e.g. the timeline view. Done. > * Saved email attachments only supports Thunderbird's downloads.rdf > format. I don't know if this feature can be supported with Evolution, > and accordingly may need to be removed for now. I believe Evo/EDS needs further support to support easy external listing of attachments. > * .desktop change monitoring has been disabled due to crashes in > the gmenu python bindings. This may have been solved recently, or may > require investigation into better alternatives. Fixed. > * Preferences and Administration capplets are merged into a single > Settings category. This can easily be split into separate categories > again, if people want to maintain compatibility with the existing > menubar. No feedback, but I think the split makes sense for transitional users. > * The "system" tab is labeled according to the OS's name, e.g. > Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD. If this is contentious, we can rename it to > "Computer", "System", or "Gnome". No feedback, remains as OS name for now. > * Different terms are used from the standard GNOME menubar: > Applications->Programs, Preferences/Administration -> Settings. No feedback so not changed. Splitting Settings back into Preferences/Administration would leave only the Applications/Programs conflicting with the existing GNOME parlance. > * A few important crashers must be fixed[2]. See > http://www.beatniksoftware.com/gimmie/Releases. All fixed. > * Next-gen desktop systems are not yet used: Tracker/Beagle for > searching, Telepathy for IM contacts, mugshot daemon for web service > access. I would love to see integration with these in future Gimmie > releases, but they are not yet a standard part of GNOME. There has been much talk of reusing Empathy, once it gets included in Gnome, to handle a lot of the work of the IM contact management. This should allow for really tight People tab integration. -Alex _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
