0

Rhythmbox and ekiga

Today after syncing I found out that Rhythmbox 0.9.8 (codename “Type Slowly” :) it hangs!!!) and Ekiga 2.0.5 are now in portage. I use rhythmbox a lot and hopefully I’ll enjoy one of the improvementes like the album cover shown in the trayicon tooltip :shock: and the ability to transcode songs before sending them to the ipod .

Overview of changes in Rhythmbox 0.9.8 "Type slowly"

=====================================================* move to SVN and move round lots of files. yay!

* use "friendly" date-time in track list (William Jon McCann)

* add visualisation plugin (JOnathan Matthew)

* support more lastfm:// URIs (Jonathan Matthew)

* split code out into a library common to plugins and the binary (Jonathan Matthew)

* display cover art in the tray icon tooltop and song-change notification (Ed Catmur)

* Magnatune improvements (Adam Zimmerman)

* core art improvements, support art for podcasts et al (Ed Catmur, Martin Szulecki)

* Python plugin improvements (James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew)

* add support for the Jamendo online catalogue (Guillaume Desmottes)

* support new Gnome "media key" mechanism (James Livingston, Jonathan Matthew)

* support track transfer for "generic" audio players, and improve iPod

  track transfer support, including transcoding (James Livingston)

* many build/run issues on Solaris (Irene Huang)

* Nokia N800 support (William Jon McCann)

* Many core improvements, for future work

* the usual pile of minor features and bug fixes


As far as I can tell from the changelog there have been a few fixes for ekiga but no big improvements.


Thinking about ekiga i realize that is very easy to get lost in very simple things, especially for gnome developers. Every tray icon of any Voip/Chatting software on this planet change when you have a missed called , so you can actually realize that someone was looking for you but not with ekiga. You must open it and once you have done it there are no symbols that warns you about the missed called at first glance but there’s a single text message …. it doesn’t seems so smart…



                                
            

            
            

            	



			

	 



Leave a Reply