Parole Media Player 0.6.1 Released
Parole Media Player 0.6.1 improves the user experience, upgrades playlist search, and includes fixes for DVD device enumeration and M3U file loading.
What’s New?
This release builds on the changes from 0.5.90 and 0.5.91.
General Improvements
- Added “Contents” menu item in the Help menu. Goes to online documentation.
- Removed redundant settings button from the playlist
- Improved search in the playlist
- Plugin API documentation updates
Bug Fixes
- Properly use the specified device, and use the correct URI ( LP: #1098323)
- Fixed crash for m3u files with all absolute paths
Parole Media Player has also been patched in Ubuntu 14.04 to load plugins again properly! ( LP: #1286046, LP: #1168810, Xfce #9904)
Screenshots
Getting Parole Media Player
Ubuntu 14.04 users will find Parole Media Player 0.6.1 in the repositories.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install parole
The source files can be downloaded from Parole’s download page for other distributions.
Catfish 1.0.2 Released
Catfish 1.0.2 has been released with easily accessible view modes and a new search filter for matching directories. More than 20 bug fixes and general improvements round out the release.
What’s New?
I thought the delay in previous release announcements was embarrassing… but several stable releases have been since my last post (0.6.1). I’ll try to keep this brief.
New Features
- Switch to toggle standard and preview modes
- Search filter for directories
General Improvements
- Full Python3 support
- Improved locale and encoding support
- Updated to support the latest PyGObject APIs (minimum 3.6)
- Introduced SudoDialog to handle user authentication (shared with Mugshot)
- Code cleanup, removed unused template code, improved installer
- Improved list logic with item selection
- Interface refresh, mimicking common gnome applications
- Improved handling of symbolic icons
- Improved strings
Bug Fixes
- Fixed CVE-2014-2093 CVE-2014-2094 CVE-2014-2095 CVE-2014-2096 ( Debian #739958, Fedora #1069396)
- Fixed multiple-selection regression ( LP: #1283726)
- Fixed “–thumbnail” startup option ( LP: #1230245)
- Removed embedded copy of pexpect ( LP: #1257500)
- Fixed image loading issues, use icon names available in gnome-icon-theme ( LP: #1258713)
- Fixed untranslatable strings ( LP: #1261181)
- Fixed sidebar width ( LP: #1261185)
- Fixed sidebar coloration ( LP: #1261188)
- Fixed searching mounted shares ( LP: #1274378)
- Fixed PyGObject deprecation warning ( LP: #1228440)
- Fixed python2/3 error that prevented installation ( LP: #1217507)
- Remember sidebar visibility and hidden files toggled ( LP: #1188954)
- Enhanced image thumbnailer ( LP: #1193311)
- Use pexpect and SudoDialog to replace gksu dependency ( LP: #1202085)
- Made Search terms placeholder text translatable ( LP: #1175201)
- Made command line options translateable ( LP: #1175204)
- Fixed crash when directory in PATH does not exist ( LP: #1166079)
- Fixed case sensitivity in search backend ( LP: #1166214)
- Fixed infinite loop when searching for * ( LP: #1165727)
- Fixed executable-not-elf-or-script lintian warnings for Debian packaging
Screenshots
Getting Catfish
Ubuntu Users
If you’re running Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.10, Catfish 1.0.2 is available from the Catfish Stable PPA.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:catfish-search/catfish-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install catfish
If you’re running Ubuntu 14.04 or newer, Catfish 1.0.2 is available in the Ubuntu repositories.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install catfish
Everyone Else
You can download the latest source package from the Catfish downloads page if you’re running another Linux distribution.
The bright future of Foresight Linux
Refining Foresight
Why
Foresight is what I use for almost a decade now (and that means almost the whole time since it was created by Ken Vandine).It was originally based on rPath Linux and Foresight 2.0 still is.
So rpath doesn't exist anymore (it was aquired by SAS a while ago) and our existing base is getting outdated to a point where maintenance is getting a burden.
How
There were several options to solve this issue.1) build foresight 3 from scratch
2) rebuild an existing distribution from source and use it as a base
3) base on an existing (vital) distribution
Which one
Actually we discussed all these, but given our manpower we chose to base our new shiny Foresight on Fedora as is, so that we can focus again on providing a stable modern rolling binary distribution.The Plan and Progress
So what we're doing is importing all! of Fedora20 into our own repositories using a tool called mirrorballIt will create Sourcepackages for conary containing the matching rpms and srpms and build conary packages from them.
I'm not going into the details here. You can look some up on our foresight-devel mailinglist
The initial import and built is already done and we're now in the process of creating conary groups from the information of the comps.xml
when that is done it should be possible already to adopt a fresh install of fedora20 for use with conary packagemanager.
Next step will be doing regular updates and imports of the fedora20 repository.
Then we will build foresight on top of this.
Creating groups like we want them, adding artwork and extras. Import rpmfusion repositories until we have a foresight that matches our needs.
And of course finding a way to easily install foresight and convert existing fedora installations.
Why not...
...just use fedora?Well first we all got to love foresight as a distribution and a community.
And we love conary. Conary is pretty strict when it comes to dependency resolution. We already found packaging issues of fedora20 just by importing and rebuilding it with conary. foresight is a rolling distribution and we hope that with the adopting of fedora we can make it possible to just roll from fedora20 to fedora21 painlessly. Conary has rollbacks since it's beginning and it's a great packagemanager that helped us maintaining a rolling binary distribution for almost 10 years now.
The bright future of Foresight Linux
Refining Foresight
Why
Foresight is what I use for almost a decade now (and that means almost the whole time since it was created by Ken Vandine).It was originally based on rPath Linux and Foresight 2.0 still is.
So rpath doesn't exist anymore (it was aquired by SAS a while ago) and our existing base is getting outdated to a point where maintenance is getting a burden.
How
There were several options to solve this issue.1) build foresight 3 from scratch
2) rebuild an existing distribution from source and use it as a base
3) base on an existing (vital) distribution
Which one
Actually we discussed all these, but given our manpower we chose to base our new shiny Foresight on Fedora as is, so that we can focus again on providing a stable modern rolling binary distribution.The Plan and Progress
So what we're doing is importing all! of Fedora20 into our own repositories using a tool called mirrorballIt will create Sourcepackages for conary containing the matching rpms and srpms and build conary packages from them.
I'm not going into the details here. You can look some up on our foresight-devel mailinglist
The initial import and built is already done and we're now in the process of creating conary groups from the information of the comps.xml
when that is done it should be possible already to adopt a fresh install of fedora20 for use with conary packagemanager.
Next step will be doing regular updates and imports of the fedora20 repository.
Then we will build foresight on top of this.
Creating groups like we want them, adding artwork and extras. Import rpmfusion repositories until we have a foresight that matches our needs.
And of course finding a way to easily install foresight and convert existing fedora installations.
Why not...
...just use fedora?Well first we all got to love foresight as a distribution and a community.
And we love conary. Conary is pretty strict when it comes to dependency resolution. We already found packaging issues of fedora20 just by importing and rebuilding it with conary. foresight is a rolling distribution and we hope that with the adopting of fedora we can make it possible to just roll from fedora20 to fedora21 painlessly. Conary has rollbacks since it's beginning and it's a great packagemanager that helped us maintaining a rolling binary distribution for almost 10 years now.
The bright future of Foresight Linux
Refining Foresight
Why
Foresight is what I use for almost a decade now (and that means almost the whole time since it was created by Ken Vandine).It was originally based on rPath Linux and Foresight 2.0 still is.
So rpath doesn't exist anymore (it was aquired by SAS a while ago) and our existing base is getting outdated to a point where maintenance is getting a burden.
How
There were several options to solve this issue.1) build foresight 3 from scratch
2) rebuild an existing distribution from source and use it as a base
3) base on an existing (vital) distribution
Which one
Actually we discussed all these, but given our manpower we chose to base our new shiny Foresight on Fedora as is, so that we can focus again on providing a stable modern rolling binary distribution.The Plan and Progress
So what we're doing is importing all! of Fedora20 into our own repositories using a tool called mirrorballIt will create Sourcepackages for conary containing the matching rpms and srpms and build conary packages from them.
I'm not going into the details here. You can look some up on our foresight-devel mailinglist
The initial import and built is already done and we're now in the process of creating conary groups from the information of the comps.xml
when that is done it should be possible already to adopt a fresh install of fedora20 for use with conary packagemanager.
Next step will be doing regular updates and imports of the fedora20 repository.
Then we will build foresight on top of this.
Creating groups like we want them, adding artwork and extras. Import rpmfusion repositories until we have a foresight that matches our needs.
And of course finding a way to easily install foresight and convert existing fedora installations.
Why not...
...just use fedora?Well first we all got to love foresight as a distribution and a community.
And we love conary. Conary is pretty strict when it comes to dependency resolution. We already found packaging issues of fedora20 just by importing and rebuilding it with conary. foresight is a rolling distribution and we hope that with the adopting of fedora we can make it possible to just roll from fedora20 to fedora21 painlessly. Conary has rollbacks since it's beginning and it's a great packagemanager that helped us maintaining a rolling binary distribution for almost 10 years now.