Sebastian Pölsterl's blog

After a very long time I'm proud to present the newest version of new-stuff-manager.

This release depends on managed D-Bus version 0.5.2 or higher. This is necessaray because versions prior to this aren't thread-safe and therefore cause weird behavior. In addition, I added a DownloadManager interface to allow applications to easily download files from the internet. Downloading from a FTP site won't show download progress due to a bug in Mono. The remaining changes where bugfixes and mostly internal refactoring.

I also updated the spec file for Deskbar-Applet so that you can use new-stuff-manager flavor with Deskbar-Applet again.

You can download the source or for the first time packages for Ubuntu 7.04.

• Source:
  • new-stuff-manager-0.2.3.tar.gz
  • new-stuff-manager-0.2.3.tar.bz2
• Ubuntu 7.04:
  • new-stuff-manager_0.2.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
  • new-stuff-manager_0.2.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

First of all, I want to apologize for the long time without any news, but live's busy.

This year I deciced to apply for awesome Google Summer of Code for the first time. I applied for 'Refactoring Deskbar-Applet' as part of GNOME. Thanks to Raphaël Slinckx who's part of GNOME's 2007 SoC comittee, maintainer of Deskbar-Applet and last but least my maintainer for this year's GSoC, I was accepted.

The last release has been about a month ago.
Now this version has some major improvements:

• spec file for Deskbar-Applet has been added (actually, the URL of the repositry might not work, yet. kikidonk has to set it up first).
• A bug has been fixed that said that the service could not be found
• configure script now checks for ndesk-dbus-1.0 and only uses the internal version of dbus-sharp if it isn't available. I highly recommend to install offical/newer version of NDesk DBusSharp.
• Added custom Exceptions so that errors tell something meaningful
• Basic command line options are available

I added an additional example in C# on how to make use of {cms_selflink page='newstuffmanager' text='NewStuffManager'}. Got to Presenting NewStuffManager to check it out.

Since version 2.17.5 of Deskbar-Applet, support for new-stuff-manager is included. So you won't need the patch from the git repository anymore. Furthermore, I updated the git repository to include the C# sources and Deskbar-Applet's .conf file that is needed to run it with new-stuff-manager support.

Wow! I'm quite in a rush lately.
So there's is again a new version that includes the following changes:

• The author element will now be stored directly in an serializable dictionary
• Changed directory structure. new-stuff-manager sources moved to src/
• Added: Create $(datadir)/new-stuff-manager/specs on install
• Removed cachedir variable, changed the way how directories are expanded and added configuration summary
• Supplying a a plugin id that isn't in the repository doesn't throw an exception anymore. Instead, it's just ignored
• Installation is aborted, if checksum or signature is invalid
• Added API documentation

You can download it at www.k-d-w.org/clipboard/new-stuff-manager-0.2.1.tar.gz

As I mentioned in my previous post I completely re-written {cms_selflink page='newstuffmanager' text='NewStuffManager'} in C#.
This version supports everything the Python version 0.1 does and additionally caches the repository's XML file.

Download it at www.k-d-w.org/clipboard/NewStuffManager/new-stuff-manager-0.2.tar.gz

It's been a long time since my last post. But I have good news for you.

I reimplemented {cms_selflink page='newstuffmanager' text='NewStuffManager'} in Mono.
Download the beta at www.k-d-w.org/clipboard/NewStuffManager/new-stuff-manager-0.2beta.tar.gz

Today I released the first public version of {cms_selflink page='newstuffmanager' text='NewStuffManager'}. It didn't changed a lot except that I added i18n to the Python files, but not to the repository's XML file, yet.
This release only contains NewStuffManager and no patches for applications (currently only deskbar-applet). The patches are available at the Git repository

You can download the release from www.k-d-w.org/clipboard/NewStuffManager/new-stuff-manager-0.1.0.tar.gz

Hi!

I'm very happy to announce the Grand Opening of my personal homepage.

I'm a GNOME developer, especially for {cms_selflink page='deskbar-applet' text='Deskbar-Applet'}. The newest project I'm maintaining is {cms_selflink page='newstuffmanager' text='NewStuffManager'}.

In the future I'm going to report about my projects here.