Luis Medinas http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod en-US http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Brasero 0.5.2 released! http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2007/02/27/brasero_0_5_2_released Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:55:23 +0000 Luis Medinas Gentoo 1260@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>I'm here to announce Brasero 0.5.2 release:</p> <p>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.<br /> Now we use Gnome svn, our development site at <a href="http://live.gnome.org/Brasero">http://live.gnome.org</a> and the new Homepage at <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/brasero">Gnome Projects</a>. 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.<br /> Now the Changelog:</p> <p>2006 : 0.5.2<br /> Release from the stable series<br /> - Fixed log size to 1MB that was causing problems closing #377198<br /> - Added Support for libisofs >=0.2.4 patch from Denis Leroy and <br /> Luis Medinas closing #395594<br /> - Minor Change on Brasero desktop entry<br /> - New brasero icon by Ulisse (ulisail@yahoo.it)<br /> - Fix for bug #399962 (Large file support now enabled)<br /> - Fix audio title set to "null" (#401340)<br /> - Fix #378061<br /> - New icon for blank action by Josef Vybiral (newsgroups@vybiral.info)</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Happy burning</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2007/02/27/brasero_0_5_2_released">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> 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

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]]> http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2007/02/27/brasero_0_5_2_released#comments Ugh http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/11/15/ugh Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:35:45 +0000 Luis Medinas Gentoo 1077@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>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 <img src="http://blogs.gentoo.org/rsc/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt="&#59;&#41;" class="middle" />.</p> <p>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.</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/11/15/ugh">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> 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.

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]]> http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/11/15/ugh#comments Good and Bad News for my Desktop http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/11/14/good_and_bad_news_for_my_desktop_1 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:29:49 +0000 Luis Medinas Gentoo 1076@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>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 <a href="http://abock.org/">abock</a> and see if we can get this working. Here is the Aaron post to Banshee Mailing List about it.<br /> <em>"The Unix IO backend in Banshee is broken under Mono 1.2, as you've seen.<br /> I found out about this on Sunday I think, but haven't yet had the time<br /> to look into it, so thank you! Your findings should be helpful for the<br /> bug:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=79914">http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=79914</a><br /> <br /> I'll confirm them hopefully later today, but it would be helpful if you<br /> could post your findings to that bug.<br /> <br /> The code in Banshee *should* work (it always has before), so I think<br /> this is a regression in Mono and needs to be fixed. However, I'll<br /> probably look for a workaround for Banshee 0.11.3."</em></p> <p>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 <a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132627">here</a>. If you want to speed things a bit helps us fixing this bugs. </p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/11/14/good_and_bad_news_for_my_desktop_1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> 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.

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]]> http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/11/14/good_and_bad_news_for_my_desktop_1#comments Gentoo artwork ?? http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/11/07/gentoo_artwork Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:38:06 +0000 Luis Medinas Gentoo 1060@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>Hi</p> <p>Here is a call for help for something that wasn't done before on the Gentoo Project. Start a new Gentoo artwork herd.</p> <p>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 <img src="http://blogs.gentoo.org/rsc/smilies/icon_sad.gif" alt="&#58;&#40;" class="middle" />.</p> <p>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 <a href="http://lila-theme.berlios.de">lila</a> would be good.<br /> 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 <a href="mailto:metalgod@gentoo.org">metalgod@gentoo.org</a>.</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/11/07/gentoo_artwork">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> 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.

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]]> http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/11/07/gentoo_artwork#comments NetworkManager on Gentoo http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/10/31/networkmanager_on_gentoo Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:00:05 +0000 Luis Medinas Gentoo 1045@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>finally!!! NetworkManager is on the Gentoo tree. Go sync and try.</p> <p>Warning 1: Our baselayout rocks so much but you need to disable the network settingsto have NetworkManager working.<br /> Warning 2: You need the masked version of pam and pam_console<br /> Warning 3: If you want to improve the Gentoo backend you are welcome to do so send the patches to our bugzilla</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/10/31/networkmanager_on_gentoo">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> 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

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]]> http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/10/31/networkmanager_on_gentoo#comments xmms final thoughts http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/10/29/xmms_final_thoughts Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:52:33 +0000 Luis Medinas Gentoo 1042@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>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.<br /> 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 <a href="http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod/xmms/patches.html">here</a>). <br /> Now i encourage anyone to merge xmms to an overlay (sunrise might be a good option to be maintained by the community).<br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> 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.</p> <p>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".<br /> 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.</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/10/29/xmms_final_thoughts">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> 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.

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]]> http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/10/29/xmms_final_thoughts#comments Rob Levin aka Lilo is typing atm on Heaven :) http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/09/17/rob_levin_aka_lilo_is_typing_atm_on_heav Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:13:38 +0000 Luis Medinas Gentoo 940@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>First i would like to say sorry to his family for this. I know it's hard.<br /> This is a big loss for FOSS community and for the Gentoo Project since he did everything for us.<br /> Lilo you know we won't miss you. I'm sure you are sending akill's on Heaven <img src="http://blogs.gentoo.org/rsc/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt="&#59;&#41;" class="middle" />.</p> <p>Rest in Peace. </p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/09/17/rob_levin_aka_lilo_is_typing_atm_on_heav">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> 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.

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]]> http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/09/17/rob_levin_aka_lilo_is_typing_atm_on_heav#comments reply to falso http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/09/16/reply_to_falso Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:35:20 +0000 Luis Medinas Personal 938@http://blogs.gentoo.org/ <p>Hi this is a joke obviosly so don't read it.</p> <p>but my friend <a href="http://you-blog-reading-faggot.blogspot.com/">falso</a> is almost an old man because he loves saying bad things about <a href="http://www.gentoo.org">Gentoo</a> (but he loves it) and he is a big fan of KDE so this is just to kick him. <img src="http://blogs.gentoo.org/rsc/smilies/icon_crazy.gif" alt="&#58;&#99;&#114;&#97;&#122;&#121;&#58;" class="middle" /></p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.gentoo.org/metalgod/2006/09/16/reply_to_falso">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> 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. :crazy:

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