Gloss 0.1!
I know I’ve been promising to do another screencast, specifically showing the music player in Gloss, but I’m afraid it isn’t done. What is done however is Gloss 0.1, including a new screencast showing all its features!
Whilst being very much a developer / testing release, it is moderately stable and works ‘out of the box’ on multiple different systems I’ve been testing on. It is available for download at http://gloss-mc.googlecode.com/files/gloss_0.1.tar.gz or if you’re on a debian / ubuntu based system, an apt package is available in my launchpad PPA: https://launchpad.net/~gloss-development/+archive. If you want to check it out before downloading, a screencast is below (Quality warning: Where is the killer linux screencast app?):
So what’s actually been done? A LOT of work getting what was in there already to a stable, portable state. That’s not to say it won’t crash, some areas are still quite fragile, but everything that’s there will work given the right setup. The new Gloxygen theme has been included also. This initially started life based around the KDE Oxygen iconset, but has evolved a little bit since then. It has the advantage of being fully open licensed, unlike the Pear theme which is of questionable origin (For this reason it is not included in the apt package above).
The plan going forward is to get as much testing as possible done ASAP with the hope of having a 0.1.1 and maybe a 0.1.2 release out the door quickly. When Clutter 0.8 is released, SVN will temporarily break as the API is updated accordingly, meaning that the ubuntu Hardy package will also break given that there is no Clutter 0.8 available for it.
That’s probably about all for now. I urge you to have a play with the release above if you have a chance and log any problems you find (And you will find them) in the bug tracker!
Ross Burton said,
Wrote on July 5, 2008 @ 12:45 am
I’ll be producing hardy packages of Clutter 0.8 on debian.o-hand.com (along with Gutsy I hope).
Filip said,
Wrote on July 5, 2008 @ 1:11 am
I love the idea of having multiple options for the frontends. Last time I read your blog I was worried that you were discouraged by some comments, so I’m very happy to see you still making progress.
Filip
Jamie Bennett said,
Wrote on July 5, 2008 @ 5:27 pm
Looks amazing.
Jeremy von Hoff said,
Wrote on July 7, 2008 @ 11:47 pm
Don’t let people dissuade you from doing what you like. If you see the need, and have the desire, fill it. That said, I’d love to see an Elisa plugin. But, since I haven’t tried to do it myself, how can I possibly demand that you do it? Keep up the good work – it looks great, and is definitely a visual improvement over the archaic mythfrontend.
kknull said,
Wrote on July 14, 2008 @ 4:37 am
Hi,
I’m trying to run gloss 0.1 on an archlinux system.
I have all deps installed but I get
./gloss: line 47: 26365 Segmentation fault python $install_dir/gloss.py $arg_string
sigma said,
Wrote on August 21, 2008 @ 1:52 am
This looks fantastic! As a mythtv user (~2yrs) I’ve always been looking for something like this. Ideally it would be touchscreen enabled too, but this is better than the standard frontend. Trying it soon! Keep it up. This could really take off…
Jeff Bevis said,
Wrote on September 21, 2008 @ 9:58 am
Similar to kknull above, I got a segfault is syslog when trying to run gloss:
Sep 20 16:16:19 tomato kernel: python[15450]: segfault at ffffffff ip 00283d2e sp b7af38d0 error 4 in libgnomebreakpad.so[27c000+e000]
Gloss just exits, giving no info about what happened. Whatever is wrong, I am clueless. I’m pretty much at a deadend for the moment. Ideas?
Karl Graf said,
Wrote on September 30, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
Hi.
Gloss-mc looks great.
I haven’t tried it myself yet as I really need EPG functionality.
Any chance on getting our hands on 0.2?
Keep up the great work.
Cheers,
Karl
Shaun said,
Wrote on December 2, 2008 @ 11:20 am
Wow – this looks quite awesome. Definitely looking forward to giving it a try on my ubuntu+mythtv box.