This month we fleshed out the planning for 0.2. From now on we like to release often and regularily. We defined a lot of small gtk ui tasks. If you like to help, we welcome you with open arms on irc://irc.quakenet.org/#buzztard.

First changes after the release are already in CVS. I worked on the buzzmachine emulation. I can now handle some more plugins. We need to update and re-run the coverage tests to get a clear picture. Regarding wrapper gst-elements we have a bug in gstreamer bugzilla that needs some work.

I also worked on the UI a bit more. The machine preferences and properties now have some reasonable size. Its not easy to get a default size for generated UIs. Right now I clamp the height to the screen-height minus some extra. Would be nice to have some way to figure how much space one should leave for upper/lower panels. I also needed to add a workaround for the window-width wobble. If you had sliders with labels in the UI, the width was dependent on the label with.I can't really know the maximum width beforehand easily, so I had to set a default width. Good enough for now.

I also started two new inerfaces for gstreamer elements. First one is about the help documentation of the element. Buzztard can show the docs of buzzmachines or the gtk-doc of native element already. The second iface is about the preset handling. Implementing that for the buzzmachines is next on the todo list.

Finally I also started to put some gstreamer element check into the core lib. During configure we can check for installed elements and it would't make sense anyway. So we are going to check for mandatory and optional elements at application start. Checking works fine already. Now I need to add the UI dialog for the missing elements report.

Have a nice christmas month - we'll get back to you next year.