On-going projects status report

Last time I blogged about Elisa was end of February in an ultimate attempt to keep up with the weekly news reporting idea. I miserably failed since then… Some people recently asked me some status on Elisa, so I’ll do my best to deliver some periodic insider news of …

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Coherence strikes back

With a release per month, Coherence is evolving rapidly, the community is coming along, it’s nice to see the IRC channel filling up with developers and users. Recently Frank added a backend for Tracker, it’s a bit rough on the edges currently and publishes only the Music files …

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Releases!

Yeah GNOME 2.22 is out! Yeah Elisa 0.3.5 is out ! Let’s celebrate :) Well it still has no DVB, no standard DVD, no HD-DVD (it’s dead anyway), no Blue-ray support BUT 0.3.5 brings drag&drop, a little nice splash screen, Codeina (or CodecBuddy …

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Hi Planet GNOME!

Just a quick post to say hi to the GNOME community. Thanks Jeff for adding me!

So I’m Philippe (philn on IRC), working for Fluendo on the Elisa MediaCenter, writing Python fluently during work hours for fun and profit and off work, only for fun :)

I regularly write news …

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Elisa weekly (not that weekly) news #6

Hey been a while since last shot of Elisa news… Be not disapointed, much is happening! Let’s see…

The whole team is firing up to cook an Elisa release candidate for tomorrow and final release should happen end of next week. What’s new? The plugin management framework entered …

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N810: first impressions

Two weeks ago I bought my N810 with the discount code kindly offered by Nokia for the Maemo development program. The device is really nice, the OS2008 provides a totally new user experience (compared to the version I used on my N770). So here are few remarks I have after …

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Coherence and Rhythmbox love

Some heads up and bling on Coherence front. Rhythmbox now acts as MediaServer, MediaClient and MediaRenderer thanks to Frank’s great efforts. This is awesome :) See the demo video, it really blows you away:

And the Rhythmbox plugin is developed in Python

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Elisa weekly news #5

Welcome to this new edition of Elisa weekly news. I’m not very regular on the timetable, but yet haven’t reached the 3-weeks limit! :)

So what happened since last week? First off we’ve got Huge feedback from the release, good press coverage so far, especially an article on …

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Reinteracting with Pigment

ReInteract is a nice tool, I thought it could be a good idea to make a Pigment extension for it.

Repgm allows the reinteract user to integrate a Pigment canvas inside Reinteract, as shown in the screenshot below:

I’d have a made a screencast but my laptop would have …

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Elisa weekly news #4

Heh no news since 2007 fall, something went wrong! In fact it was due to holidays, work overload and some unintended days off I had to take. Anyway, sorry about that, let’s move onto EWN #4!

So, since christmas the Elisa team achieved good work, polishing Elisa and Pigment …

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