I'm here to announce Brasero 0.5.2 release:

This release marks the change of lots of things. Philippe invited me to help maintain and i'm very pleased with that because i love brasero and finally an app that fits everything i wanted on gnome desktop.
Now we use Gnome svn, our development site at http://live.gnome.org and the new Homepage at Gnome Projects. I already bumped on Gentoo tree and i hope other distros pick up this. I'm almost sure this will be the more stable release ever made of Brasero. And now a Bonus Brasero got Tango icons love.
Now the Changelog:

2006 : 0.5.2
Release from the stable series
- Fixed log size to 1MB that was causing problems closing #377198
- Added Support for libisofs >=0.2.4 patch from Denis Leroy and
Luis Medinas closing #395594
- Minor Change on Brasero desktop entry
- New brasero icon by Ulisse (ulisail@yahoo.it)
- Fix for bug #399962 (Large file support now enabled)
- Fix audio title set to "null" (#401340)
- Fix #378061
- New icon for blank action by Josef Vybiral (newsgroups@vybiral.info)

If you need some help or discuss we are at irc.gimp.net #brasero and we now use Gnome bugzilla too we will be happy to fix bugs and review patches if you want to help us.

Happy burning

You may not noticed but metacity-themes have been bumped today. I added 5 ultra-sexy metacity themes to metacity-themes packages. So make your Gnome Desktop more sexy tonight .

Ohhh gosh mplayer 1.0rc1 is very very nice... the subtitles and the guy are much better than the previous versions. Keep up with good work guys i might change my dvd player from totem (using xine backend to see menus) to mplayer soon.

Ok first the bad news. Banshee 0.11.x using mono 1.2 is broken. Only because mono 1.2 as IO Unix backend broken, i already filed a bug with abock and see if we can get this working. Here is the Aaron post to Banshee Mailing List about it.
"The Unix IO backend in Banshee is broken under Mono 1.2, as you've seen.
I found out about this on Sunday I think, but haven't yet had the time
to look into it, so thank you! Your findings should be helpful for the
bug:

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=79914

I'll confirm them hopefully later today, but it would be helpful if you
could post your findings to that bug.

The code in Banshee *should* work (it always has before), so I think
this is a regression in Mono and needs to be fixed. However, I'll
probably look for a workaround for Banshee 0.11.3."

The good news for Gnome as i fixed the nautilus bug about the "flying" desktop icons and is all up-to-date according to ftp releases. All except gnomemm and java-gnome bindings. You can see the progress of gnome 2.16 towards to stable here. If you want to speed things a bit helps us fixing this bugs.

Hi

Here is a call for help for something that wasn't done before on the Gentoo Project. Start a new Gentoo artwork herd.

I talked with a few users of lila (like i am too) and they did a wonderful job of creating artwork for Gentoo. But the things never get so good to get the artwork on the main tree and the project was going down .

So this is a call for every designers and developer who want's to build a new artwork project for gentoo. The goal is to have a complete set of artwork for Gentoo which needs to contain wallpapers,icons, gtk and qt themes, gensplash (optional since we already have) and possibly help maintain packages on the x11-themes category of course starting with lila would be good.
I can mentor one or two prospective developers to work on this project. If you are interested you can reach me at gentoo-desktop @ irc.freenode.net or via mail metalgod@gentoo.org.

finally!!! NetworkManager is on the Gentoo tree. Go sync and try.

Warning 1: Our baselayout rocks so much but you need to disable the network settingsto have NetworkManager working.
Warning 2: You need the masked version of pam and pam_console
Warning 3: If you want to improve the Gentoo backend you are welcome to do so send the patches to our bugzilla

During the last few days lot's of different opinions were around our community. Some users don't care about the removal but others start flamming and they want to keep xmms on the tree.
After i go to vacations the sound team (including me) agreed it's the right time to remove it from the tree because i'm not willing to maintain it anymore. The main reason is that xmms have a dead upstream and we did lot's of work to keep it sane (you can check our work here).
Now i encourage anyone to merge xmms to an overlay (sunrise might be a good option to be maintained by the community).
Another thing i have to say is that xmms2 isn't a replacement for the old xmms. It's a new media player that only shares the name and the developers team.
A few other distribuitons don't install xmms by default too. They keep xmms on other repositories far from the main tree with the same reason we have.
Lot's of users complain about the way we did this decision but a few months back we discuss it on gentoo-dev mailing list and we all agreed that it must be removed. So this wasn't a decision we took last week or in the last days.

Now i encourage every user to test new alternatives, report bugs and claim new features to other media players available on the tree so we all can forget xmms from once and for all. Look there's lot's of nice players on the tree. Personaly i use Banshee and Muine this applications rock my desktop. Remember all OSS community shouldn't be tied to the past we should "inovate" and we should "like to inovate".
So now i hope everyone calm down we aren't going to remove KDE or Gnome tomorrow or your favorit piece of software without any good reason. We are opensource lovers too and we do the best we can to love it and inovated it.

First i would like to say sorry to his family for this. I know it's hard.
This is a big loss for FOSS community and for the Gentoo Project since he did everything for us.
Lilo you know we won't miss you. I'm sure you are sending akill's on Heaven .

Rest in Peace.

Hi this is a joke obviosly so don't read it.

but my friend falso is almost an old man because he loves saying bad things about Gentoo (but he loves it) and he is a big fan of KDE so this is just to kick him.

Today i bumped cdrkit on our tree. Like i said previously on a bug i added a virtual/cdrtools and made a symlink to cdrecord so it can be used by every frontend. After this i open a bug #146631 so every arch can test it and keyword it.
Please test this application so we can unmask it soon.

Today i helped again Phillip from Brasero to port this awesome Gnome application to nautilus-burn 2.16. Good Job Phillip.
Yeah he knows it was a pain but here i am to help you . I added the development version to portage (masked) 0.4.90 and tomorrow after the 0.4.4 release that wasn't ready for nautilus-burn 2.16 i will commit too.

Long time i don't blog... i'm sorry i know i'm lazy.

I sent this mail to gentoo-dev mailing list today.

"Now i know the real story since i've been talking with Debian
Maintainers. So there's isn't anything to say but we are working close
to upstream and they actually offer commit access to maintainers of
another distros. Cdrkit project sounds much more like an open project
than cdrtools so i'll be with them. This was pretty much what happened
with Xfree/Xorg. So cdrtools will be the "close" project and cdrkit the
"open" project. Like i said before Gentoo joined this new project.
Now the license problems are fixed and we can ship this on our portage
tree tarballs for our new releases etc...

The package is in the tree and it's asking for testing before i can
remove it from pkg.mask and provide the cdrtools virtual."

Ok i think i don't have to tell anything more...

yeah i installed matlab 7 on my workstation yesterday. It works like a charm. Now it's time to use it to run my Computational Physics stuff.

Last 3 weeks were like hell... lot's of work. I mean presentations, tests and some research for my university projects.

I've been looking at dashboard project and i get two little patches commited just for building and get dashboard working again. For that joe sugest me to write a beagle-ui-0.0.pc file for beagle that will be available on the next beagle version 0.2.7. After this dashboard can use it and build again. I really like dashboard project and i like to see it alive again (yes there's a SOC project for that) and i will contribute as soon i have some free time.
I've fixed a few bugs for beagle on portage too.
Unfortunatly until the end of June i won't have time for more than a looking a few bugs on our bugzie. But i'm not away... i'm always on irc if you need me but i don't promiss i can answer you right there heheh.

For Stuart... :)

Why would we need Picasa if we have f-spot ? Why would we have to run it with wine when we can have native aplications doing the same ? heheh
It sucks because of that imo

Yeah my hard drive blow up i need to buy a new one and see if i can backup some of the data i had. This week i'm not going to keyword until i install everything and get everything up again (cvs,svn etc..). Last Week i was in vacations but i had to spend some time with my family and friends so i mainly had time to work on Beagle and iFolder ebuilds.

About beagle the searches through portage works fine and we got the multilib patch on the upstream cvs.
Currently i'm testing iFolder to see if i commit to portage soon.

I'll bring more important news as soon as i get my workstation up again.

banshee-0.10.9-r1 is in portage with two more patches found on gnome bugzilla made by Ruben Vermeersch enjoy.

After this two last weeks i need vacations and start studing solid state physics again.

If you are a Gentoo/Amd64 user you probably noticed that we have mono-1.1.13.2 stable on amd64 and the mono use flag unmasked. This is now a safe step to stable users since the tree is ready for it.
After this i keyworded almost every popular package available in the tree. So if you found any package that isn't keyworded please test it and report a bug to us.

After all this mono goodness i'm working on a few open bugs from muine.
Talking about this stuff, gnome 2.14 works great too it's almost ported to gentoo (final release). This release is awesome, it's very fast compared to 2.12 and gnome-terminal is much more functional and easy to manage.

Now enjoy!!

After the problems with bmpx and quodlibet upstream that keep me upset for a few days i imported two packages of banshee 0.10.7 to portage. The first one and unmasked it's a packages that only builds with gstreamer 0.8 and the second one (currently masked but very stable imo) supports only gstreamer 0.10. I encourage all people to test the banshee-0.10.7_p1 (masked one) and report bugs to us if is packaging related or to upstream if is about the rest.

This week i imported too a new package called cowbell. It's a tag application for your music library, it's very useful and pretty :P. Of course thanks to mono goodness.

Talking about mono we are working with latexer to unmask the mono use flag on amd64 you can read my post on the ml about it. Feel free to test and report bugs to us (specially on the stable tree).

Today i bumped banshee, libipoddevice and ipod-sharp. My ipod is working fine like banshee on amd64 so i'll need to do a few tests before keyworded it. I asked a few ppc users to test it too before i open a bug to ppc team to keyword it. If you experience some problems with it i suggest you to unmask and upgrade mono to 1.1.13 since banshee supports this it.

About cdrtools i've been working with the latest alpha and testing it. You can get my experimental packages at my devspace this week.

Yesterday i pulled some patches from Banshee cvs that make Banshee work again on amd64. The notification area works again and when we play a song it doesn't crashes like the previous releases. Maybe next release i'll add the ~amd64 keyword. Good work Aaron, Banshee is awesome.
You can see the patches i pulled from cvs on my devspace.

These days my music players are mono/gtk# based, mainly i use Banshee, Muine and of course sometimes xmms too because i still maintain it and i'm trying to fix some bugs. Muine upstream is now a Gentoo developer (our good friend Latexer) and yes i'm still trying to have some free time to write plugins for both projects(and improve my C# coding skills).

Here is my selection of the best movies i saw during the last two months.

Star Wars (all six movies, yeah i'm a big fan)
Lord of the rings triology
Red Dragon
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