GNOME DVB Daemon 0.1.90 released
As promised, I am pleased to announce GNOME DVB Daemon 0.1.90. This is first release to achieve GNOME3-compatibility. I started the porting process back in January when I attended the Python Hackfest in Prague. I’ve been busy doing other stuff since, mainly writing a master thesis. The last couple of weeks I ported the remaining bits and pieces. The GUI has been ported from PyGTK using GTK+2 to PyGObject and GObject-Introspection using GTK+3. In addition, the Totem plugin has been ported to libpeas, thus working with Totem 3. Furthermore, GNOME DVB Daemon is now dbus-glib-free, both the daemon and the GUI use GDBus to communicate over DBus. As a result of all these changes, this version does not support GNOME2, i.e. it won’t work with GTK+2 and Totem 2. Last but not least, I removed the support for Rygel’s MediaServer1 spec and enabled exporting channels according to the MediaServer2 spec by default.
PyGObject 2.28.4 released
I am pleased to announce version 2.28.4 of the Python bindings for GObject. This is a minor bugfix release of the stable 2.28 branch.
The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org: http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.28/
✈ Prague, ♥ Python
I’ve spend last week in Prague attending the Python Hackfest as you might have heard by others.
My goal was to get GNOME DVB Daemon’s GUI ported to PyGI and GTK+3. I’m glad to say that I could reach that goal, getting closer to GNOME 3 readiness. Porting wasn’t easy, because it basically requires to do two ports at once, to PyGI and to GTK+3. The good news is that during this process pygi-convert.sh got better, which should make other people’s lives a little bit easier. Needless to say, a lot of bugs got fixed as well.
Let's get started with Python and GObject-Introspection
We have an icon
Thanks to the awesome Klaus Staedler GNOME DVB Daemon finally has an icon and therefore two starters in the main menu. Version 0.1.17 is mostly a bug fix release (thanks to all the testers for reporting bugs). Most of the fixes are in the channel scanner. Unfortunately, if you want get the best experience you have to use gst-plugins-bad from git as well, because it contains some fixes. Following the recent trend to deprecate HAL, gudev is now used to detect connected devices.
Please download it at https://launchpad.net/gnome-dvb-daemon/+download and give it a try. If you experience any problems please file a bug.
Another day, another release
It’s already three releases after my last post about GNOME DVB Daemon. Since then I tuned the UI to make it more HIG compliant and hide device group combo boxes if there’s only a single group. In addition, you can now edit the start time duration of an existing timer. Needless to say, I fixed some crashers, too. Version 0.1.14 and above replace Totem’s own DVB capabilities and hopefully provide a much improved user experience when watching TV. That’s why a Fedora package finally exists, thanks to Bastien Nocera.