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Work has started

The last two weeks I made myself comfortable with the DVB and MPEG-TS part of GStreamer. I took code by Zaheer and refactored it. All the acronyms drive me crazy sometimes, but I understand most of them by now. It’s currently possible to scan channels, watch channels and display EPG. This code was written in Python. I decided to port everything to Vala, because Python isn’t the best choice for a daemon and I hate all the boilerplate in GObject C.
Sebastian Pölsterl
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Google Summer of Code 2008

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The new adventures of Deskbar-Applet

Today Deskbar-Applet 2.23.1, the first release of the unstable series that will lead to 2.24, has been released. A lot has changed since 2.22.0:

80 files changed, 7592 insertions(+), 2377 deletions(-)

You can download Deskbar-Applet 2.23.1 at http://download.gnome.org/sources/deskbar-applet/2.23/

In the following text, I’ll present the most significant changes.

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Capuchin replaces NewStuffManager

It’s been a very long time since I worked on NewStuffManager. The last couple of weeks I was able to work on NewStuffManager again. For everyone who doesn’t know what Capuchin/NewStuffManager is, it’s a program that runs in the background, downloads and installs plugins. It can be used by any application through its D-Bus interface. So, what changed? Most notable the name. Furthermore, I refactored the D-Bus daemon to make it more extensible, changed the D-Bus interface itsself and the XML file format that contains information about the plugins.
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Deskbar-Applet 2.22.0 released

Today Deskbar-Applet 2.22.0, the first stable release of the 2.22 series, has been released. The changes since the 2.20.x are:

  • You can now execute any command in a terminal with “Execute in terminal” action
  • Directly open the Evolution dialog to edit a particular contact.
  • With the Templates module you can create new files from your templates in the Templates directory.
  • New Tomboy module allows you to search your notes, create new ones and delete notes. This module requires that you have Tomboy 0.9.2 or later.
  • The preferences dialog now contains a button that reloads all modules for you.
  • Deskbar-Applet finally has a user documentation thanks to Phil Bull and Qing Gan from the Ubuntu Documentation Project
  • Button UI that was already part in 2.18 returned
  • Deskbar-Applet now recognizes when you change your peferred browser and activates the appropriate modules for you
  • When Beagle-live returns more than 20 results, a match will appear that opens beagle-search to display all available results.
  • Many many bug fixes

In addition, you can have a look at my previous posts.

So go and download the latest version at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/deskbar-applet/2.22/

Sebastian Pölsterl
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Yet another last minute UI change

Sebastian Pölsterl
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What's new in the Deskbar-Applet 2.21 series?

Yesterday, I released Deskbar-Applet 2.21.5. I didn’t post anything new about Deskbar-Applet for quite a while. This post is intended to inform you about the most notable new features of the 2.21 series. But first of all get the latest version from http://download.gnome.org/sources/deskbar-applet/2.21/.

Sebastian Pölsterl
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Call for help

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Deskbar-Applet 2.20.1 released

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Updated Remember the milk module

I updated my module for rememberthemilk.com. It supports now the following features:

  • search your incompleted tasks (name and tags)
  • view a task in your browser
  • mark a task as complete
  • postpone a task
  • move priority of a task up or down
  • delete a task
  • (new) move task to other list
  • (new) add new task to a list
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