Category: Planet GNOME
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PiTiVi on Windows
A little while back, Andoni Morales (author of Longomatch) had managed to run PiTiVi on Windows “just for the sake of testing gstreamer python bindings”. His efforts have resumed and been posted to a new bug report as a serie of patches, and here is how it looks like: This is also part of his…
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Themed ruler widget in PiTiVi
Edward released PiTiVi 0.13.3 today. Brandon recently spent some time working on the timeline’s ruler, and his changes are part of that release. So now, it looks like this: What’s the difference, you say? It looks slightly better visually; The timecodes are displayed/managed in a smarter way; The “ticks” are now on the bottom of the…
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Volume curves that render
Up until today, volume curves in PiTiVi were not correctly taken into account when rendering. This has now been fixed. I will be able to do my sound mixing natively for my future screencasts 🙂
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Performance vs usability
I had an idea to make Evolution display more human-readable/stuff-I-care-about-only sender information, but it was scrapped. It is sad when you hit technical roadblocks in technology (here, performance considerations) that trump usability (well, that and the fact that the devs were not too enthusiastic about the idea to begin with).
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Smaller tabs and source list
Last week, in quest for space-efficiency after tackling this bug, Alessandro removed some padding in the tab above the source list, as well as padding around the source list and previewer. Before: After:
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Toolbar items prioritization
As I requested, PiTiVi now has some of its toolbar buttons prioritized. This enhances usability by giving more importance and discoverability to more commonly used buttons. It now looks like this: Thanks, Brandon!
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PiTiVi manual
I have spent approximately 15.6 hours (in the past week or so) writing a new user manual for PiTiVi. By hand. With a pen and paper during boring meetings. And then converted it to the digital medium with my awesome dvorak typist skills. The result can be seen in PDF here as a preview (temporary…
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PiTiVi 0.13.1, Twitter
So, after many days of messing around with re-recording my screencast, I finally published the final version of my “PiTiVi 0.13.1 Release Demo” (also on Youtube), complete with clean sound recording and music. Edward just blogged about the release, so this will probably create a surprisestorm on planet GNOME, or so I hope. To complement…
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Managing Missing Media
Yesterday, Edward added a nice new feature PiTiVi: it now doesn’t die when you open a project file with missing media, and allows you to locate the new location of the files if they have moved. It looks like this: Now, seeing this automatically made me file two new bug reports. First, the default size…
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Specto 0.3 release candidate 1
Since hell is freezing over today, I’ve been nailed to my chair to prepare a new Specto release, at last. Uploaded packages, checked release notes, and reworked the website. Now, 0.3 RC1 is available for the masses, go test it! If no significant problems are found, this will become Specto 0.3 final. Special thanks to…