Of course, just a few hours after releasing frogr 1.1, I’ve noticed that there was actually no good reason to depend on gettext 0.19.8 for the purposes of removing the intltool dependency only, since 0.19.7 would be enough. So, as raising that requirement up to 0.19.8 was causing trouble to package frogr for some distros still in 0.19.7 (e.g. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS), I’ve decided to do a quick new release and frogr 1.2 is now out with that only change. ...
After almost one year, I’ve finally released another small iteration of frogr with a few updates and improvements. Not many things, to be honest, bust just a few as I said: Added support for flatpak: it's now possible to authenticate frogr from inside the sandbox, as well as open pictures/videos in the appropriate viewer, thanks to the OpenURI portal. Updated translations: as it was noted in the past when I released 1.0, several translations were left out incomplete back then. Hopefully the new version will be much better in that regard. Dropped the build dependency on intltool (requires gettext >= 0.19.8). A few bugfixes too and other maintenance tasks, as usual. Besides, another significant difference compared to previous releases is related to the way I'm distributing it: in the past, if you used Ubuntu, you could configure my PPA and install it from there even in fairly old versions of the distro. However, this time that's only possible if you have Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak", as that's the one that ships gettext >= 0.19.8, which is required now that I removed all trace of intltool (more info in this post). However, this is also the first time I’m using flatpak to distribute frogr so, regardless of which distribution you have, you can now install and run it as long as you have the org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.22 stable runtime installed locally. Not too bad! :-). See more detailed instructions in its web site. ...
I’ve just released frogr 1.0. I can’t believe it took me 6 years to move from the 0.x series to the 1.0 release, but here it is finally. For good or bad. This release is again a small increment on top of the previous one that fixes a few bugs, should make the UI look a bit more consistent and “modern”, and includes some cleanups at the code level that I’ve been wanting to do for some time, like using G_DECLARE_FINAL_TYPE, which helped me get rid of ~1.7K LoC. ...
So, after neglecting my responsibilities with this project for way too long, I finally released frogr 0.11 now, making the most that I'm now enjoying some kind of "parenting vacation" for a few days. Still, do not expect this new release to be fully loaded of new features and vast improvements, as it’s more like another incremental update that adds a couple of nice new things and fixes a bunch of problems I was really unhappy about (e.g. general slowness, crashes). ...
Quick post to let the world know that I’ve just released a new version of frogr right now, in order to address a few issues present in the previous version. Mainly: Deprecation of non-SSL end points for the Flickr API (see these two posts for more info). From now on, frogr will use SSL-only API calls. Address issues with frogr's AppData file. Apparently, the AppData file was neither valid (according to appdata-validate) nor being installed properly, preventing frogr from showing up nicely in the GNOME Software app. Allow disabling video uploads at configuration time (enabled by default), instead of making the decision depending on the detected platform. This will hopefully make life easier for packagers of other platforms (e.g. MacPorts). Removed libsoup-gnome code once and for all (API deprecated a while ago). Other things: updated translations and fixed a few minor bugs. As usual, feel free to check the website of the project in case you want to know more about frogr, how to get it or how to contribute to it.
During the last weeks, I decided to make the most of some spare time I had while still in “nowhere land” (see my previous post) and so I’ve been working in frogr to see if I could release the 0.8 version before the end of the year. In my mind it looked like kind of a nice and humble Christmas present to the world and, at the same time, a interesting way to spent this time I had between my depart from my previous job and the start of the new one. ...
As you might already know Flickr has added support for OAuth a while ago, which is meant to be the obvious replacement to the old Flickr auth API that has been available since a long long time ago, which has been used by many applications our there, like frogr. But the important point here for apps using the old auth method is that it won’t be longer available after July 31st, which means they should get updated if they want to keep working as so far. ...
Shit happens in many ways, and sometimes that means you release an application with some bugs you just can’t stand and need to roll out a bugfixing release as soon as possible. Does this sound familiar to you? :) So that’s why this new release of frogr, just one week after the 0.6 version had been published, has arrived, taking care exclusively of fixing the following problems, as stated in the NEWS file: ...
After some changes here and there frogr 0.6 is finally out. Besides the usual bugfixing work, the main new features on this release are: Integration with the GNOME general proxy settings (optional). Open pictures in the default image viewer from the details dialog and the main view. Allow users to specify the license to be set for the pictures. A new User Manual, under "Help > Contents". Some UI improvements. As usual, you can get frogr through different ways: you can grab the source code from its git repository or via the xz and bzip2 tarballs, specific packages for Fedora or for Ubuntu (ranging from Karmic to Oneiric) and even a version for MacOSX, if you dare to use it. By the way, at the moment frogr is already being packaged in some distros (see this) and others might follow, so perhaps it could be that you already were able to install it by just using your favorite package manager with the standard repos. Otherwise, it might be just a matter of time, I guess… ...
Now announcing that the new release of frogr is finally out. This time, I’m afraid you won’t find huge changes in the application, but a bunch of small improvements instead, in the way of subtle -yet handy- new features, bug fixes and new and uptaded translations mainly. Still, I can mention some of the new small features that I specially like, since I use it a lot: Uploading pictures stored in remote machines via well-known protocols like smb, ssh, ftp... well anything supported by GVFS, basically. Sort pictures in the interface by title and date taken (and keep the pictures sorted as you add more pictures!). Allow disabling tags autocompletion (seems to slow frogr down when you have thousands of tags). Tooltips with basic info about the pictures in the icon view (title, size, date taken). Show the total amount of data to be uploaded in the status bar. Allow filling the details for pictures right from the photoset details, when creating a new one. Correct picture orientation in the icon view, if needed (rotation). Support both for Gtk+2 and Gtk+3 (now this is the default toolkit for building). Support for generating MacOSX packages, thanks to the GTK-OSX project. As usual, several other bug fixes, improvements and nitpicky stuff. As usual, you can get it through different ways: Source code: clone from the git repository at gnome.org. Tarballs: both in xz and bzip2 formats. Pre-compiled packages for Fedora: at my personal public folder in gnome.org. For the specific case of Ubuntu you can use this PPA at LaunchPad. MacOSX packages (Intel) in the GNOME FTP server (experimental, yet ready for everyday use) [Update 31/05/2011]: If you have already installed frogr 0.5 for Ubuntu from my PPA or from the pre-compiled packages, please do upgrade to the latest version of the Ubuntu packages as soon as possible, as available in my PPA. If you already have the PPA configured in your system, you can upgrade just frogr by simply doing this: sudo apt-get update && sudo install frogr There was a problem with the generation of the previous version of the packages for Ubuntu (files being installed under /tmp/frogr, instead of /usr/share) and all of them are broken and need to be updated. Sorry for the hassle. If you want to contribute, remember you can do it by proposing ideas, translating, coding, discussing or filing and/or fixing bugs. ...
After more than one year without writing almost anything related to my other pet project “frogr”, I finally found some time, motivation and energy to put all the loose parts I already had more or less in place together and evolve them towards what finally made a new release of this -yet another- GNOME flickr uploader. That way, I finally released frogr 0.3 two days ago (see the announcement here), featuring the following changes: ...
Even though I’ll be stating the obvious for so many ubuntu users/developers reading this post, I’d like to post a quick recipe for those who don’t know how to easily install the latest version of epiphany with the WebKit backend, as well as all the needed dependencies, without having to mess with compiling the source code (which is not always an easy nor a quick task, by the way). So here we go ...
After coming back from an awesome week of holidays in Paris (lovely city, btw!), today I finally managed to get some time for making up what it became the second upstream release of frogr: frogr 0.2 Just trying to give a brief update on “what is new”, here you have an excerpt from the NEWS file: Generate ChangeLog from git log with 'make dist' Added .spec file for fedora 11 packaging system (thanks Adrián Pérez) Added drag'n'drop support for loading pictures in frogr Added support to add tags to pictures (instead of just replacing) Fixed (legacy) support for libgnome2 to compile in debian lenny Use accesor functions instead direct access and removed some deprecated GTK+ symbols (thanks Javier Jardón) Added i18n support and a es_ES lang file (thanks Alejandro Piñeiro, aka API) Support silent build rules with automake 1.11 (thanks Javier Jardón) Bugfixes and several minor improvements Entering in more detail, and as you can easily extract from the list above, the main improvements from the user's point of view are: Drag'n'drop now supported, so having to add pictures through the filechooser is no longer the only method to load pictures in frogr. New "add tags" dialog, very handy to add tags to some specific pictures before uploading them. i18n support, which should make easier to get more contributions for frogr in further releases, in the form of new translations to make it even more accessible for people all over the world (did I say we're eager for new language files?) At last, just to mention that you already can find pre-compiled packages for some distros at the web of the project, as well as the source code tarballs in gzip and bzip2 formats. And of course, get the source code from the git repository at gitorius, in case you prefer to directly clone the source tree to make up wonderful and nice patches to contribute with, or just to provide new pre-compiled packages for your favourite distro ;-) So… what else could I say? Just go and get it… Hope you enjoy it as much as I do :-) ...
After perhaps quite a long time since I announced the “pre-release” of frogr, back in June, I’m now happy to tell the world that the 0.1 release is finally here, providing the user a very basic but still useful set of features to upload his/her pictures to flickr. Basically, as it’s told in the NEWS file, most important changes in this first release regarding to the code from almost 2 montsh ago are: ...
Just in case you were experiencing, like me, some very annoying problems with your NVIDIA graphic card while using Compiz, here you have a very useful option to put inside the “Device” section in your /etc/X11/xorg.org file: Option "UseCompositeWrapper" "true" After activating this option (available for nvidia drivers >= 169.xx) I found that the problems redrawing windows I was suffering, specially when scrolling (very annoying, for instance, when chatting through pidging), just dissapeared. And it was indeed a very annoying problem, since it used to happen very often and in almost any window (although not in Emacs ;-)) in my system, in a way so any information on it just got screwed up so it was completely unreadable… and the only “manual” workaround I had found so far was just to re-scroll the window or select the text I was trying to read, which seemed not to be a very good idea. ...
Last sunday, going back home after three days of several interesting speechs at the Guademy, I’ve decided to upgrade my ubuntu distribution in my laptop from the 6.10 version (name-coded “Edgy Eft”) to the new beta released version 7.04 (name-coded “Feisty Fawn”) and I have to say that everything is working pretty well: I had no problems upgrading (not even one), my Ati graphics card works with 3D acceleration, and I can enjoy the new Gnome 2.18 desktop… and the new baobab ringschart developed by Igalia, which is included by default in Gnome in the “Disk usage analyzer” application (formerly known as “baobab”). ...