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# ChangeLog for media-video/elisa
# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
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  05 Mar 2008; Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> ++, ++:
  Bump to 0.3.4 This is Elisa 0.3.4, fourth release of the 0.3 branch.
  
  Highlights of the features added since 0.3.3:
  
  - Pictures slideshow rewritten with appealing fade in/fade out effect -
  Drag&Drop support to easily add new media directories inside Elisa - Startup
  splashscreen together with a slick introduction effect dramatically
  
  improving the first time user experience - Elisa core and the various
  plugins bundles are now released
  
  separately which makes it easier to keep hot features up to date - Missing
  codec detection and installation support - Elisa detects poorly configured
  graphics driver and warns the user about it - Freedesktop's startup
  notification support - Simplified playlist management with automatic
  playback of albums - Player on screen display improved mouse support
  
  Bugs fixed since 0.3.3:
  
  - 552: Bus messages should be Components - 741: console based EPR client -
  746: Add support for a startup notification (freedesktop's standard) - 747:
  Think and design a splash screen for Elisa - 861: Add moblin detection code
  in setup.py - 873: Untagged photos don't show up under F-spot - 874: F-spot
  shouldn't show empty entries - 895: Image thumbnailer locks the main thread
  - 900: Plugin dependencies need to be checked - 910: Remove poblenou plugin
  - 929: Elisa package (deb file) is too big - 938: add to core an utility to
  list installed plugin in Elisa - 939: add to core an utility to update the
  package version - 940: add to core an utility to upgrade the installed
  plugins - 941: add to core an utility to install or remove plugins - 942:
  add to core an utility to get information about plugins - 943: Plugins not
  included in the config are loaded by Elisa - 944: Elisa directory structure
  re-organiation - 946: media scanner should become plugin - 965: Plugins
  loaded by .conf get TitleCased (and then fail!) - 966: It is not possible to
  express dependencies between bindings - 972: Elisa needs a man page - 975:
  Support of the Apple remote control without inputlirc - 976: "python
  setup.py install" results in a unusable Elisa - 985: xmlmenu plays ping-pong
  with MediaLocation messages - 986: take care of version numbers in plugin
  dependencies - 987: User plugin directory not scanned for plugins - 990: ogg
  files not recognized/shown - 992: modify Elisa config when installing new
  plugins, in order to load them - 1006: Running Elisa from a fresh svn
  checkout looks like not having installed plugins. - 1015: Slideshow jumps 2
  steps on play - 1018: added music doesn't show up under artists/albums -
  1021: Empty or corrupted thumbnails when the thumbnailer times out - 1022:
  Uninstalled plugins get loaded instead of user wide plugins - 1025: Rethink
  i18n management since split between elisa-core and plugins - 1026:
  MediaLocationMessage doc sucks - 1027: URI support in EPM - 1033:
  Thumbnailer should avoid retrying to thumbnail when it fails - 1035: doesn't
  track choosen album changing view to coverflow - 1039: Do not drop silently
  metadata retrieval errors - 1043: Upgraded local wide plugins are not loaded
  correctly - 1045: slideshow from the main-menu does not work - 1051: Text
  doesn't fit into the popup area - 1055: shoutcast plugin tracebacks on
  get_real_uri for directories - 1058: crash on startup, ubuntu 7.10 - 1060:
  The present implementation of upgrade is not always working correctly -
  1061: daap media timeout on initialize() - 1062: pkg_resources takes very
  long to import - 1063: elisa-get and empty PYTHONPATH - 1064: Audio: when
  selecting an album, elisa only plays back the first track - 1070: replace
  fake 100% cpu usage report in the UI - 1071: "core" is not listed among the
  plugins - 1072: Add install()/uninstall() methods to the Plugin class -
  1075: Player OSD sucks CPU - 1076: player config upgrade - 1077: playing a
  new media type requires manual player stop - 1078: "stop" shortcut not
  working anymore - 1083: Memory leak - 1085: duration does not get updated
  proper - 1086: check that the update:updater_service is activated in the
  configuration - 1088: unpredictable behaviour - 1090: Popup has garbage text
  when it is displayed the first time. - 1093: ugly progressbar jump on going
  to the next track - 1096: theme icons in the theme configuration UI appear
  with inverted colors - 1098: hildon detection fails on hardy - 1099:
  --version fails - 1102: Elisa does not launch unless elisa-plugins-good is
  installed - 1105: backport changeset 5202 - 1107: DAAP media unit tests fail
  - 1109: show_mem & show_cpu options are broken - 1115: switching to player
  without model tracebacks (but does not block) - 1117: the splashscreen's
  contour looks sharp and ugly

  22 Jan 2008; Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> ++, ++, ++, ++:
  Bump to 0.3.3
  Highlights of the features added since 0.3.2:
  
  - completely new user interface named 'raval' making a better use of screen's
    real estate
  - new visualisation modes: grid of pictures, vertical list and cover flow like
  - stacks of picture replace dull directory icons
  - mouse support greatly improved
  - playback from DAAP shares has been reactivated
  - new YouTube plugin
  - audio visualisation using libvisual
  - faster startup
  - better detection of media types using GStreamer
  - basic playlist support
  
  Bugs fixed since 0.3.2:
  
  - 752: [win32] update media_uri with windows path
  - 885: Online services thumbnails do not appear
  - 195: Windows port
  - 385: elisa should not hardcode file extensions as a way to detect file type
  - 418: Font regeneration when viewport size changes
  - 427: DAAP playback support
  - 506: solve the sorting problem
  - 721: Elisa not starting when running on Python 2.4
  - 748: Externalisation in separate files of model/controller/views
    associations
  - 758: [win32] units tests do not works on windows
  - 763: Component missing a Python dependency prevents Elisa from starting up
  - 781: thread issue with hal, dbus and the elisa bus
  - 446: Cleanup of attribute change notifications
  - 592: ticket explanation page
  - 618: Don't ship .mo files in the source distribution
  - 633: Sizes in player_view of poblenou_frontend should be relative to the
    canvas
  - 709: Use ReviewBoard for code reviews
  - 725: Unicode breaks media_uri (as usual)
  - 728: Typefinding potential improvements
  - 732: Windows/task system
  - 733: faster plugins loading
  - 738: HAL fails to initialize if dbus not running
  - 743: Cleanup and proper testing of lists in MVC
  - 745: Complete unit tests in core
  - 750: In Pigment based frontends, changing the size of the canvas does not
    work well
  - 762: use media_manager wherever os.open or open() is called
  - 774: Playing a video and then trying to play another one before its end does
    not work
  - 778: Hotplug is broken
  - 787: Remove the classic frontend plugin
  - 788: Split plugins.bad.media_bad in two plugins
  - 789: split plugins.good.input_good in two plugins
  - 790: split plugins.good.media_good
  - 791: move stage6 plugins in ugly
  - 792: split plugins.ugly.media_ugly in two plugins
  - 801: split plugins in plugins.base.media_provider
  - 839: update configuration updator
  - 846: Split plugins.bad.input_bad in two plugins
  - 847: Split plugins.good.services_good in three plugins
  - 850: Rename and move service plugin (elisa/plugins/service) into an about
    plugin
  - 865: Polish (pol) translation
  - 868: get_metadata should have a priority parameter
  - 722: PlayerRegistry should state a warning if there are no player engines in
    the configuration
  - 723: Play next song after current song is finished.
  - 724: Bind next track on streamzap remotes to next song by default
  - 760: make XDG user-dirs support optional
  - 761: gnomevfs plugin crashes if gnomevfs module is not installed
  - 765: Elisa starts when pysqlite2 is not installed, but segfaults when it is
  - 772: playbin engine/player engine will not open property_set('uri'....
  - 773: EXIF Rotated pictures are rotated  at low quality and not rotated in
    high
  - 852: move mouse in player frame dropping video
  - 854: Subtitles desynced when seeking in media
  - 861: Add moblin detection code in setup.py
  - 866: Untranslated strings
  - 894: GPL-Licence and copyright year update

  11 Dec 2007; Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> ++, ++:
  Bump to 0.3.2_p1
  	- Add a svn snapshot from 20071211 that hopefully works

  01 Nov 2007; Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> elisa-0.3.2.ebuild:
  Fix some deps

  10 Oct 2007; Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> ++, ++,
  -elisa-0.3.1.ebuild:
  bump; tests tail on amd64

  02 Sep 2007; Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> +elisa-0.3.1.ebuild:
  Bump to 0.3.1 This is the first release of the 0.3 Elisa branch, which is a
  major rewrite compared to the 0.1 branch. 
  
  Features added since 0.1.7:
  - new multi-frontend system allowing Elisa to run on various graphical
    toolkits, eventually synchronized
  - new artwork, including a Tango-like theme
  - media metadata retrieval support using various sources
  - improved user interface, it's now much more reliable
  - added a service to customize the screen aspect ratio
  
  Bugs fixed since 0.1.7:
  - 361: Music only lists 250 of my 267 folders.
  - 516: Seeking videos => audio/video desync
  - 366: Failed to play video with external subtitles (.str)
  - 400: Media scanner monopolizing main thread
  - 412: Make poblenou frontend aspect-ratio dependent
  - 413: alphabetical order of songs / albums / artists
  - 414: Movie preview overlaps image preview
  - 424: Seeking quickly in the player is not possible (CPU dies)
  - 425: Previews clutter the main menu.
  - 435: Down arrow in the menu
  - 444: elisa hangs on new media in audio
  - 445: playing ipod and audiocd hangs off whole elisa
  - 461: Integrate grid widget
  - 485: staying icons because of list-renew
  - 528: remove problem in lists
  - 529: Removing parent leads to problems
  - 540: PlayAll does not work the second time
  -  61: Smart media tag browsing
  -  71: Non-english filename support
  -  75: Improve GUI fluidity on older GPUs
  -  97: Precise timeout handling for animations
  - 163: Wait animation when starting to play a file
  - 175: Watching big pictures causes a lot of CPU usage
  - 202: CPU usage on tiny computers
  - 264: Video thumbnailer adaptation to make use of DataAccess plugins
  - 291: Rotating an image only rotate the thumbnail and not the picture when
    displayed in the background
  - 307: Manage hotplug sources plugged when Elisa is not running
  - 308: Media manager scan interruption
  - 333: more remote actions, especially in combination with the Coherence
    MediaRenderer backend
  - 337: Start reading a videofile during thumbnail generation cause DeadLock
  - 339: off-center text
  - 347: Make use of freedesktop's xdg-user-dirs to locate media
  - 352: Extended automation Cover-selector (like in Pictures-Plugin)
  - 359: Selecting Play All  in a music folder crashes elisa
  - 372: [debian/ubuntu] Depend on python-daap
  - 373: if config fails to parse, eception about Application not having close
    method is raised
  - 374: [PATCH] error in audio_activity.py
  - 375: [PATCH] media_uri doesn't url encode strings when creating the uri
  - 376: [PATCH] gtk ui treeview needs to be scrollable
  - 381: boost python traceback
  - 382: inotify problem when missing ctypes
  - 387: /usr write check fails under fakeroot
  - 390: Elisa does not start when a USB drive is plugged in during start
  - 392: the mediascanner have to start 10 s after the application launch
  - 394: application.stop() should return a Deferred
  - 395: Video display is overlayed by the video icon
  - 404: Review Player for blocking calls
  - 406: Failure in plugin loading gives wrong error message
  - 410: Navigation fix, hitting OK should go down in the menu
  - 415: Volume level not displayed when changed
  - 419: When the media playback is finished, the menu should reappear
  - 422: Uniformise repeat behaviour across the different input devices
  - 426: Preview focus not set when going in a section: switching to fullscreen
    makes the wrong preview grow
  - 428: Movie preview should pause when going into another section
  - 429: Player shows weird things on streams
  - 431: Support for non-seekable Videos in Thumbnailer (like Flash-Video)
  - 433: gtk frontend broken
  - 441: playing media files without required gstreamer plugins makes elisa sooo
    slooow
  - 442: Plugin registry changes behaviour if -t is specified
  - 448: Player options
  - 452: Investigation on poblenou:node_controller
  - 453: Media scanner traceback
  - 462: non local pictures display support
  - 464: cover support in UPnP MS
  - 468: Cover retrieval not yet fine on daap:// and ipod://
  - 471: While playing a playlist, hit stop => player goes to next track
  - 484: no title and arrow for loading-image, please
  - 505: elisa breaks at start if ~/.elisa/plugins is missing
  - 508: DVD actions
  - 510: make label of a location configurable
  - 511: Video preview timeout
  - 512: Explicit folder actions
  - 514: Preview cleanups
  - 515: Playing elisa:// URIs with empty media_db
  - 517: Adding files on a directory browsed by elisa
  - 518: Remove duplicated API docs
  - 524: theme switcher: error in observer
  - 525: theme switcher icon in tango theme is wrong
  - 527: HAL makes problems on plugging in seconds stick
  - 532: no volume in pause
  - 533: volume stays longer than progress bar on menu appearing
  - 536: USB key hotplugged results in seeing /media in Elisa
  - 537: replugging stick while elisa runs raises exception
  - 539: Menu items thumbnails interverted
  - 360: Scrolling is to slow.
  - 383: Macedonian translation
  - 384: Macedonian translation
  - 386: exceptions should be caught in ListObservable if an Observable raises
    an exception
  - 393: media_scanner must parse sources one by one
  - 403: local media fails on  wrong encoding in filename
  - 407: AudioCD without MusicBrainz2
  - 408: gst-metadata breaks on special filenames sometimes
  - 409: media_db has problems, when there is no media provider
  - 416: Cover lookup doesn't work with daap:// and ipod://
  - 423: Nice fade-in/fade-out at startup/shutdown
  - 437: Pressing enter on audiocd gives traceback
  - 438: lirc should use a temporary file
  - 450: start_fullscreen poblenou frontend option
  - 459: cache amazon covers in ~/.elisa
  - 495: my favorites of stage6
  - 513: Drop 10 items limit in playlists
  - 493: support non-square pixel aspect ratio
  -  84: Asynchronous Flickr?
  - 306: Make the mouse pointer disappear after a few seconds
  - 355: livecd
  - 356: livecd
  - 357: livecd
  - 389: RTL Language support

  28 Apr 2007; Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> +elisa-0.1.6.ebuild:
  Bump to 0.1.6
  The Elisa team is happy to announce the 0.1.6 release of the Elisa
  home multimedia system.
  
  We fixed 2 crasher bugs in this release:
  
  - Under Ubuntu Feisty any attempt to close the elisa's DBus session
    would lead to a segfault, preventing the configuration from being written
    back to disk. We don't close the dbus session anymore, it's not even
    recommended in the DBus developer documentation (and now we know why).
  - If you were missing multimedia codecs to play a file, in some cases
    GStreamer would fail to parse the resulting error message, leading
    to an assertion error and a segfault of the application

  16 Apr 2007; Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> +elisa-0.1.5.ebuild:
  Bump to 0.1.5
  - 2 new config options were added for the player to allow the user to
    customize how much seconds the player can seek
    forward/backward. Options are seek_forward_step and
    seek_backward_step.
  - a UPnP MediaRenderer plugin has been added, it allows Elisa to
    display media available on the network via UPnP. This plugin is
    still experimental, hence disabled by default.
  - Elisa is now more able to detect missing audio/video codecs and cancel
    media playback if anything is missing.
  - New Catalan translation by Josep Torra.

  16 Mar 2007; Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> +elisa-0.1.4.2.ebuild:
  Bump to 0.1.4.2
  - the .desktop file has been fixed and is now valid. Elisa menu will
    appear in xdg compatible menus
  - Elisa now detects ogg theora files and is able to play them
  - the audio visualization effects are now disabled in the default
    configuration, this doesn't work well and need more work
  - Elisa now detects coldplugged devices (ex: usb disks plugged before
    elisa has been started)
  - next/previous track buttons have been added, allowing the user to
    skip track currently being played
  - a Last.FM_ webradios streaming client has been added, it allows
    Last.FM users to listen music via the Last.FM streaming platform.

  19 Feb 2007; Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> elisa-0.1.4.1.ebuild:
  Oops, 0.1.1 for pigment version

  19 Feb 2007; Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> +elisa-0.1.4.1.ebuild:
  Bump to 0.1.4.1
  - the media database system has been improved, one step further
    towards big media collections support
  - pictures/movies thumbnails are now compatible with Freedesktop
    specifications
  - the skin has been slightly improved in many places (new pictos,
    better animations, picture-folders icon compositing)
  - Pigment labels now display much better and are now scalable
  - The SDL Pigment backend has been replaced by a XWindow/GLX backend
  - Pigment now handle screens with non-square aspect ratio resolutions

  24 Jan 2007; Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> ChangeLog:
  Bump to 0.1.3