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Planets in orbit

In case there actually are people subscribed to the PiTiVi planet (i.e. who know that it actually exists!), the new URL is http://www.pitivi.org/planet (until further notice… maybe one day it will become planet.pitivi.org, but I’m le tired).

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Desktop in the Shell

I once wrote a nice rant about the inadequacy of the desktop metaphor.

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Previewer in the file chooser

Well hello there. I haven’t blogged much about PiTiVi lately, since I hadn’t kept up with the project’s happenings for a month or so. My PiTiVi bug mail folder was getting out of hand, so did some triaging today and discovered some gems. Namely, “Pier Carteri” has been hard at work, tackling two of the items on the PiTiVi Love list: a feature to revert to the saved version and a previewer in the file chooser, which looks roughly like this:

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Burnt by disc burning

I’ve been happily using various pieces of software over the last five years (especially nautilus-cd-burner and K3B) to burn ISO images, create data DVDs, etc. I’ve come to rely on that kind of stuff to work and keep working.

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Evolution, Outlook, and mail attachments

There’s an ugly bug in Outlook (a bug in Outlook?! ya don’t say…). If you use Evolution, and send out a nice mail with accents or special characters in the attachments’ filenames, like this:

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Summer of Code is here!

Are you a student looking for a fantastic experience in improving a great open source video editor project? This year again, GStreamer has been accepted as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code, and oversees project applications to make PiTiVi kick ass. Student applications are now open, and the application deadline is April 9th, so come discuss your ideas as soon as possible!

Icon view in the Source List

Stephen “lostcookie” Griffiths recently started coding on PiTiVi, learning the codebase as he works through the PiTiVi Love list. He has done awesome work on the source list to implement an “icon view” mode and has managed to somehow not become insane while I pointed out all his mistakes and bugs :)

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More bug triaging

I have requested additional super cow powers on GNOME bugzilla to be able to do some serious bug triaging in PiTiVi’s bug list. I have
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SFLPhone: modern VoIP client for the Linux desktop

I was keeping an eye once in a while on the promising SFLPhone project, developped by the Savoir-faire Linux folks.

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The new PiTiVi website is up

7 months later, the new, shiny PiTiVi website is now online. I have put redirects in place to handle the transition of the wiki to wiki.pitivi.org gracefully and redirect users to the website’s front page, if they were pointed to the old wiki front page URL.

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