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Drapes 0.5.1 out real soon now (TM)

That’s right, I’ve quite a few changes to drapes since I released 0.5.0:

  • I think i finally fixed the fucking bug where it would magically switch to monitoring / for wallpaper changes automatically.
  • In the process of fixing the above I rewrote how settings work, which are now more robust. Re-factored a lot of old crap code.
  • I imported translation updates for the help documentation!!! Drapes help is now documented in: fr, it, ko, pt, pt_BR, sv. Thanks to all the awesome people who contributed. If you’d like to contribute go here for drapes the app, drapes documentation and you can translate drapes from your browser window while wasting time at work or whatever.
  • Jorge fixed some spelling mistakes in the README file and fixed some grammar, reading issues in the documentation text.
  • Ken has converted the bzr repository to git, I’ve been using git to fetch other projects (git-svn) and for managing my other projects since like last November or so, but till now there wasn’t a tool for doing it. He did it using tailor, for some reason I couldn’t get it to work… maybe Ken is magical. In my highly scientific tests git is only 10000000000000000007x times faster the bzr for most operations. The repository is now available at here for the pretty www interface. To pull type in: git clone git://ninkendo.org/drapes.git
  • I fixed the way the help is opened, it’s less crap-tastic now.
  • Added a non working (yet) about button — obviously the most important feature of all.

I’ll have some of my home boys tested it out, and I’m aiming for a 0.5.1 release this weekend.

After that I’m going to do some work on the next release 0.5.2, it should feature:

  • Speeding up loading thumbnails loading meta-data.
  • I’ll make drapes tick-less (motivated by the pg.o posts)
  • I’ll attempt to fix the panel applet, if it still dosen’t work I’ll remove the code.
  • For people who have gtk# compiled against gtk+ 2.10+ drapes will use the gtk TrayIcon class instead of the current hack, for everyone else I’ll keep the hack around.

Cheers!

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