Many thanks to Daniel Holbach for getting Glom packages in to the Ubuntu Breezy (unstable) universe. I think this version doesn't install the example from the tarball, and even the cvs version doesn't yet cope perfectly with example files being read-only, but it's certainly easier than building it from source.

LinuxTag is over and it's left me feeling incredibly positive. We really made an impact and we saw incredible demand for a usable desktop. GNOME is becoming clearly defined as the desktop for regular people who want to get things done. We invigorated our volunteers and brought in fantastic new people, plus we made great [...]

Yesterday the ZDF television cameras were at LinuxTag and we had the chance to show GNOME's usability and recommend the Ubuntu LiveCD. And today the lunchtime show has devoted most of their LinuxTag report to Ubuntu, with lots of screenshots of GNOME, and an explanation of how to use the LiveCD. The video is available [...]

The GNOME stand at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe this year is a real success. We are really selling the GNOME product, and presenting it as the simpler usable desktop that doesn't get in your way. Yesterday was very busy, drawing small crowds into the booth. There's lots of eager new Linux users who wanted to see [...]

It looks like Joerg Billeter has implemented Hierarchical Spatial in Nautilus, now in cvs. I haven't been so pleased since they added Mac-style keyboard navigation, or spatial itself. It's a troll-killing patch. The list of major GNOME 2.12 changes is looking significant already. Update: Martin Kretzschmar has a screenshot.

I'm close to giving up on the Fedora Core 4 install. I've burnt the first CD four times now, but it always crashes after the firewall settings, with a python backtrace ending in “'TimezoneMap' object has no attribute 'currentEntry'”.

The Süddeutschezeitung (big German newspaper) had a flattering article recently about Ubuntu Linux, though it's mostly based on the misconception that it's developed in Africa.

I did some more work for The Written Word last week, to port libsigc++ to the latest SUN Forte CC compiler and fix some glibmm/libgnomecanvasmm issues on AIX and SUN. It looks like SUN CC 5.7 has some regressions, but they are very good at fixing such things quickly. The Written Word are wonderful to [...]

If we had Ideal GNOME developer documentation, what would it contain? Or, what's really missing now? The Foundation Board would like do what we can to help to make wonderful documentation available, so we need an overview of what's needed. Please do add your ideas there, not worrying too much for now about how we [...]

Could any international GNOME hackers planning to be at LinuxTag, in Karlsruhe this month, please contact me or leave a comment here. We'd love to schedule a 30 minute guest appearance at the GNOME stand for you to talk about your work.