Parole Media Player 0.5.91 Released
Today I wrap up my week-long “staycation” with the release of Parole Media Player 0.5.91. The media player with the curious name (“parole” means “lyrics” in Italian) continues its steady march towards 0.6 with a new plugin and several fixes.
Release Notes
- Added a new MPRIS2 plugin, thanks to Matias and Hakan (of Pragha fame)
- Added RealMedia video to supported video mime types (bug #10434)
- Fixed untranslatable strings (bug #10418)
- Fixed loading of playlists with relative paths (bug #10436)
- Fixed plugin installation on some platforms (bugs #10142, #10441)
- Fixed failing debug builds on some platforms (bug #10525)
- Fixed broken “Remove Duplicates” functionality
- Fixed playlist searching
- Started Plugin API documentation updates (more on this ahead)
New MPRIS2 Plugin
This latest addition is thanks to the hard work of Matias and Hakan, who provided the majority of the effort to create the MPRIS2 plugin. The Media Player Remote Interface Specification (MPRIS) is a standard DBUS interface for controlling media players.
Implementations can be found in most desktop environments, such as the Ubuntu Sound Indicator, the GNOME Shell Media Player extension, and the upcoming Xfce Sound Panel Applet.
Download and Installation
Source packages of Parole Media Player can be downloaded from the Xfce archives. Parole Media Player 0.5.91 can be downloaded directly from here.
Additionally, updated packages should soon arrive in the Xfce 4.12 PPA for Ubuntu users. Exercise caution in enabling this PPA as it contains development packages not meant for the everyday user.
If you encounter any bugs, please report them following our bug reporting guidelines.
Looking for Help
Are you familiar with Gtk documentation tools (gtk-doc)? We’re trying to complete our Plugin API documentation and can use some more experienced individuals to help us out. If interested, let us know in the comments or even send us a merge request. Any help is appreciated!
Relaunch
I finally decided to redo my website, and ditch WordPress in favor of a static site generator (I decided to use Jekyll). I also took the opportunity to simplify the design.
There’s a bit more to do, and likely some broken links here and there (not to mention some broken WP-to-markdown conversion), but it’s time I finally got this done.
In theory, I’ll start blogging again as well, but… we’ll see.
Relaunch
I finally decided to redo my website, and ditch WordPress in favor of a static site generator (I decided to use Jekyll). I also took the opportunity to simplify the design.
There's a bit more to do, and likely some broken links here and there (not to mention some broken WP-to-markdown conversion), but it's time I finally got this done.
In theory, I'll start blogging again as well, but... we'll see.
Xfce – Xfwm4 zoom mode in 4.12
Xfce is my main desktop environment since more than 6 years, and I really like it. I try to make some patch from time to time, and if you search a project to contribute, it’s here ;-)
The core team is really small (2 or 3 people), so development evolves rather slowly, and the 4.12 will be released when it is ready.
One of the latest feature is the implementation of a compositor zoom, like the compiz ezoom plugin, from an external developper ( see this thread).
Here a little video with latest git version ( from http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/ ). You just need to press ALT and scroll up/down to zoom in/out.
(yeah, it’s an excuse to test the html5 <video> balise with ogv file ;)).
I will try to make some blog posts about new features in xfce world for the upcoming 4.12 (in 2014 I hope!), stay tuned !
Xfce – Xfwm4 zoom mode in 4.12
Xfce is my main desktop environment since more than 6 years, and I really like it. I try to make some patch from time to time, and if you search a project to contribute, it’s here ;-)
The core team is really small (2 or 3 people), so development evolves rather slowly, and the 4.12 will be released when it is ready.
One of the latest feature is the implementation of a compositor zoom, like the compiz ezoom plugin, from an external developper ( see this thread).
Here a little video with latest git version ( from http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/ ). You just need to press ALT and scroll up/down to zoom in/out.
(yeah, it’s an excuse to test the html5 <video> balise with ogv file ;)).
I will try to make some blog posts about new features in xfce world for the upcoming 4.12 (in 2014 I hope!), stay tuned !
Xfce – Xfwm4 zoom mode in 4.12
Xfce is my main desktop environment since more than 6 years, and I really like it. I try to make some patch from time to time, and if you search a project to contribute, it’s here ;-)
The core team is really small (2 or 3 people), so development evolves rather slowly, and the 4.12 will be released when it is ready.
One of the latest feature is the implementation of a compositor zoom, like the compiz ezoom plugin, from an external developper ( see this thread).
Here a little video with latest git version ( from http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/ ). You just need to press ALT and scroll up/down to zoom in/out.
(yeah, it’s an excuse to test the html5 <video> balise with ogv file ;)).
I will try to make some blog posts about new features in xfce world for the upcoming 4.12 (in 2014 I hope!), stay tuned !
Xfce – Xfwm4 zoom mode in 4.12
Xfce is my main desktop environment since more than 6 years, and I really like it. I try to make some patch from time to time, and if you search a project to contribute, it's here ;-)
The core team is really small (2 or 3 people), so development evolves rather slowly, and the 4.12 will be released when it is ready.
One of the latest feature is the implementation of a compositor zoom, like the compiz ezoom plugin, from an external developper ( see this thread).
Here a little video with latest git version ( from http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/ ). You just need to press ALT and scroll up/down to zoom in/out.
(yeah, it's an excuse to test the html5
I will try to make some blog posts about new features in xfce world for the upcoming 4.12 (in 2014 I hope!), stay tuned !