Contact Lookup Applet 0.8
Version 0.8 of the Contact Lookup Applet is available from here, and a Debian package for experimental is in the queue. This release is dedicated to Jeff Waugh, as his pimping of contact-lookup-applet at the Canonical conference inspired me to work on it a bit more.
- Show email and IM addresses in combo boxes, not a label (somewhat based on a patch by Olivier Dubroca)
- Add window icons
- Make the photo display better in the contact dialog
- Display the first contact if many were found when user activates the entry
- Loads of small bug fixes (see ChangeLog)
Mad Phat Startup
I see that Kyle wants to see some of the cooler Canonical/SSDS features.
I'm also anxious to try the "pimp ass bootscreen" and "bitching laptop" work they've done...
Daniel pointed out that these features do not exist, but Mad Phat Startup and Totally Rad Laptop Support do. I saw a preview of Mad Phat Startup at the conference, and I feel that "mad phat" is a poor term to describe it.
Mad Phat Banging Startup is more appropriate. My productivity is going to nosedive when my desktop gets it... I'll be continually rebooting to bask in the magnificence of it.
I can't comment on the Totally Rad Laptop Support, but I expect it will kick arse (or at least stop laptops exploding) assuming you're a member of the X40 World Domination Gang. My personal conspiracy theory is that X40s are sentient and control the mind of their owners, and the people around them, willing them to buy more X40s. After a few months of this, when everyone has an X40, they will turn evil. I suggest staying clear of the X40 World Domination Gang, and purchasing a metal foil hat.
Note: Mad Phat Startup may rock, but it doesn't rock as much as the Jeffoblaster.
NP: Daybreaker, Beth Orton
Patches
People who think it's acceptable to mail me patches for features I am interested in, whilst at the same time re-indenting the entire file, should be forced to remove the reindentation in a hex editor by hand before sending the patch in again.
That, or die in a great big chemical fire, or something.
Is that...
...a phone ringing in my pocket, or just Phantom Cell Phone Vibrations. Thank you for noticing this Scott, I feel a little bit more normal now.
NP: Ray of Light, Madonna. Probably her only album I'd admit to owning.
PS: Yes, I realise this is a totally lame way of getting back into blogging (release announcements don't count), but I've been a little busy. Soon, I promise.
Devil's Pie "Right Where I Want You" 0.5.1
Devil's Pie (everyone favourite window manipulation tool) 0.5.1 is out. Brown paper bag release to fix a typo.
Downloads are in the usual place, a tarball is here.
Devil's Pie "Right Where I Want You" 0.5
Devil's Pie (everyone favourite window manipulation tool) 0.5 is out.
- Add an action to set the geometry of a window, by Henrik Brix Andersen.
Downloads are in the usual place, a tarball is here. Debian packages being uploaded shortly.
NP: Keep It Unreal, Mr Scruff
Contact Lookup Applet 0.7
Version 0.7 of the Contact Lookup Applet is available from here, and a Debian package for experimental is in the queue.
I'd love to take credit for this release, but all I did was change a pkg-config line and do the dist. Michael Henson was a wonderful man and send a massive patch:
- Contact pictures are now displayed in auto-complete list
- Contact dialog scales pictures to a reasonable height
- Contact dialog bolds and enlarges the size of contact name
- Fixed a memory leak when displaying the photo in the contact dialog
- Don't display fields if the returning string is empty
- Completion logic fixed
- Tooltips to notify the user of any errors
- Glade love
- Query strings are now split on spaces when passed into the query
Go Michael!
A little screenshot to tempt people into upgrading:
NP: Riding High, Bob Marley
