Wed 2008/Sep/24

• So, there you have it. A new version of GNOME has been released. Go celebrate with your local gnomies!

• With it, you will find the latest version of the Eye of GNOME. Although I should have summarized this before and not at the last minute, here you have a list with the most interesting changes:

  • This release is finally using gio/gvfs. The patch to implement this was originally written by Cosimo Cecci during the 2.21 cycle, but unfortunately, a bit late to go in. As we are conservative and respect schedules (something that may piss off some people), we only committed it after the 2.22 release. Thanks to Cosimo!
  • We also included now a small set of plugins. These plugins implement some of the most-wanted features for the hardcore users. Of course, there are still many things that could be implemented, but now you can help us...! These plugins are simple enough for any developer to get inspiration from them and create new plugins, with a little help from...
  • ...the new shinny Eye of GNOME Reference Manual! No more excuses about the eog code being poorly documented. Although there is still room for improvement, we spent a lot of time reviewing the eog code in order to document all the public API. We know that some parts of it are not as extensible as we would like, but we will be working on improving it.
  • Tons of bugs fixed, performance improvements, extended metadata support (including PNG metadata), UI improvements.

  What are our plans for 2.26? Well, a list of the things that I would love to get done in this cycle (if my frequent relocation doesn't get in the way):

  • Store locally remote images in order to set them as wallpapers (so that I can get lots of ice cream from Luis during GUADEC).
  • Improve extensibility of the eog API. In some places, the API is too ad-hoc and makes hard to extend it, through plugins. We've learnt that from feedback from nice guys writing plugins, that hang from time to time in #eog. With their help, we will improve the situation during this cycle.
  • Finish the clutter powered widget. I really need to get into this.
  • Eye of GNOME in maemo? I want to play with it and see how would it perform.
  • Obviously, bug fixing, some new plugins, some UI improvements, etc, all based on your feedback.

  We'll see how much of that we'll get done. At least, it feels good to look back to the roadmap for 2.23 and see that we accomplished most of what we wanted to do. Kudos to Lucas and Felix!

</ul>

Syndicated 2008-09-24 20:36:00 from Claudio's ChangeLog