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Another release

I’m currently in release mode and just released GNOME DVB Daemon 0.1.12, the third release in three weeks. Those three releases include an improved DBus API, a way to assign channels to any number of groups and a lot of bug fixes. You can configure the channel groups in gnome-dvb-control from the “Edit -> Channel Lists” menu. Unfortunately, the groups are not yet displayed in Totem (coming in the next release).
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R.I.P. Applets?

Nelson Creek grave by Canterbury Heritage. License: One thing that concerns me about the new shiny GNOME Shell is that there are no clear plans to support applets/widgets. Although it has been discussed previously nothing has changed as far as I can tell. In my opinion it’s a big flaw if a modern desktop environment provides no easy way to extend it via applets. All the major desktops currently provide a way to do this, so what’s the reason that GNOME Shell decided to not to.
Sebastian Pölsterl
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Coherence Sprint

I spent last weekend hacking on Coherence, a DLNA/UPnP MediaServer, in the beautiful city of Barcelona. KDE sponsored a couple of hackers to get together at the second Coherence sprint. I’ve never been to Barcelona before, it’s a really lovely city. I haven’t seen all the must-sees, but that’s just an excuse to come back another time. Zaheer, who mentored me during that last two Google Summer of Codes while I was working on GNOME DVB Daemon, was there, too.
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Moved to Launchpad

Today I moved all the stuff (bzr branch, bugs and downloads) of DVB Daemon over to Launchpad. Therefore, please make sure you pull changes from the new Launchpad repository. Although, the repository at bzr-playground.gnome.org still exists I won’t push there anymore. Development takes place at https://launchpad.net/gnome-dvb-daemon now.

Sebastian Pölsterl
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Another GNOME DVB Daemon release

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GNOME DVB Daemon 0.1.8.1 released

After almost three months a new release of GNOME DVB Daemon is available today and a lot has changed. Recordings and live TV are finally treated the same way. Thus conflicts between live TV and recordings can finally be resolved. In addition, all features from gnome-dvb-control are now available in the Totem plugin, too. Therefore, you can schedule recordings, delete recordings and browse EPG directly within Totem. The setup assistant got re-designed and does most of the work automatically now. You can get more information, including screen casts, in my recent post. Another new feature that’s worth mentioning is support for Rygel’s Media Server Spec so you can watch TV using the Rygel UPnP/DLNA MediaServer. You can download the latest version at http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-dvb-daemon/0.1/

Sebastian Pölsterl
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GNOME DVB Daemon and GSoC '09

So far I neglected writing about this year’s Google Summer of Code. This ends with this post. As last year, I’m working on GNOME DVB Daemon. In the last couple of weeks I concentrated on the user experience, thus making setting up devices as easy as possible. I made a short screencast that shows the new assistant started by the Totem plugin. If there’s only one unconfigured device it’s selected automatically.
Sebastian Pölsterl
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Long time no release

Update: Apparently, I used a too recent version of libgee when generating the release tarball. Therefore, gnome-dvb-daemon 0.1.6 doesn’t compile with libgee 0.1.5. I just released version 0.1.7 which fixes this problem. After two months since the last release I’m proud to announce GNOME DVB Daemon 0.1.6. If you don’t know what it is: GNOME DVB Daemon is a daemon written in Vala based on GStreamer to setup your DVB devices, record and watch TV shows and browse EPG. It can be controlled by any application via its D-Bus interface. I’m particularly happy about this release, because it fixes two of the most annoying bugs. First of all, the channel scanner now produces the same results on each scan. Secondly, it’s now possible to record multiple shows on the same transport stream at the same time. In order for the latter to work properly you currently need gst-plugins-bad from git (a tarball is supposed to be released soon). Both bugs would still be present if the awesome Zaheer had not fixed fixed a couple of bugs in GStreamer and helped me getting the recording done correctly. Thanks a lot man!

Sebastian Pölsterl
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Three times in a row

For the third straight year I’ve been accepted for Google Summer of Code. Thanks a lot GNOME folks! This year’s project is based on last year’s project. That means I’m continuing working in DVB Daemon and improving the DVB experience on the GNOME desktop. A detailed description of the project is available from the project’s page.

Sebastian Pölsterl
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GNOME 3.0, here we come

I really like the recent efforts to streamline the work towards GNOME 3.0. I’m in favor of all points on the roadmap. Especially the point about re-designing gnome.org. That’s a task that is overdue for a long time. Hopefully, the re-design points out why GNOME rocks and makes it easy for interested people to find a way to contribute. What I’d love to see is a way to search API docs like gotapi does.
Sebastian Pölsterl
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