Feb 26

status: week ending 2/26/2008

Posted by Will Kahn-Greene

It was an exciting week:

  • Bought a new laptop (Dell 1420n with Ubuntu Gutsy on it, 4 GB of memory and BRIGHT YELLOW)
  • Spent a couple of days switching to the new laptop and getting VNC working on my desktop machine
  • Worked on bugs 9614, 9627 and 3067–9627 took me a while to figure out
  • Centralized the list of projects for internships, GSOC, et al — see it at https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/wiki/CommunityProjects
  • Toyed with Hardy Heron alpha 5 for a few hours to get a feel for where we are with that; turns out Miro 1.1.2 is in the Hardy repositories, so that’s a good sign

This coming week I’m planning to:

  • Work on 1.2 bugs starting with mine and continuing with Nassar’s
  • Take a look at the two-stage problem with the subscribe.getmiro.com site

I want to send HUGE thank yous to the following people:

  • mutantmonkey for the patch which disables the x screensaver for GTKX11 when watching movies in fullscreen — this is awesome!
  • Njaal for the patch so that Miro will automatically stop seeding torrents when a specified ratio is reached in bug 8793
  • Sid for the excellent bug report for 9627
  • elmargol for help with bug 9614
  • Uwe from Debian and Christopher from Ubuntu for the work they’re doing and the help they give us on packaging

Also, I’d like to apologize for posting my last status so late. I back-dated it, so it probably showed up on the planet pretty low.

Date February 26th, 2008 Filed in Status

4 Responses to “status: week ending 2/26/2008”

  1. Meneer R Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    Well, if Miro would add features to play/copy dvd’s, and to manage already existing video’s on the harddisc ..

    Then maybe it could be part of the default install in Ubuntu? Like the rhythmbox counterpart for video.

  2. wguaraldi Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    Those enhancement requests are in the bug system, so they’re just waiting for someone to implement them.

    However, I’m not really sure how getting Miro into the default install of Ubuntu makes things better. Are you suggesting Miro replace Totem?

  3. sg Says:
    March 3rd, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    I already manage existing videos on my hard drive with Miro (add, watch folders, watch, delete, keep track of un/watched status)… sure there’s room for plenty improvement feature-wise (ao in no particular order smart playlists, tagging, editing titles, editing filenames, editing descriptions, rating, etc.) but there aren’t really that many apps specifically aimed at handling videos.

    Currently, I only know of yFlicks and iTunes on OS X, and they all have their severe shortcomings, so I choose to use and try support Miro as it stands the most chance of becoming my videosink.

    I like Totem a lot, it has a very limited featureset, but implements the very few features it does have in a very straightforward, well thought out way without getting in my way… not to mention the speed/performance, compared to Miro atm…

  4. Meneer R Says:
    March 22nd, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    I don’t think anything should replace totem.

    Its the perfect tool to just play a video file or music file from the file-browser. By default it is associated with music as well.

    So, like rhythmbox which manages music, miro could be the tool to manage video’s.

    Totem should always remain there and be the default association for media files.

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