Release Digest: GNOME, November 12, 2003 | Linux Today

Release Digest: GNOME, November 12, 2003

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 13, 2003

Rhythmbox 0.6.0

Hi,

The Rhythmbox team is very proud to announce Rhythmbox 0.6.0.
The release name signifies the fact that there is actually in
theory still a limit to the amount of music you can put in
Rhythmbox’s library, since you are bounded by the universe’s finite
size.

Ok, so we haven’t tested putting the universe in Rhythmbox.
Yet.=20 However, those of you with a lot of songs should notice a
speed boost and a reduction in memory usage.

Speed isn’t the only thing that’s changed with this release
though; we have some sexy new features and a number of bugs
squished. Here’s a list:

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.6.0

  • Speed and incremental display of queries [Colin Walters]
  • Major source code refactoring and cleanup [Colin Walters]
  • Improved menu layout [Luca Ferretti, Colin Walters]
  • Shiny new icons [Jakub Steiner]
  • Use Name_Rhythmbox,GenericName_Music Player in .desktop [Colin
    Walters]
  • Numerous HIG spacing and usability fixes [Christian
    Neumair]
  • Playlists are now user-orderable [Colin Walters]
  • Automatic playlists [Colin Walters]
  • Allow selecting multiple genres/artists/albums [Colin
    Walters]
  • Direct editing of playlist names [Colin Walters]
  • Major Bonobo interface improvements [Christophe Fergeau, Rached
    Ben Musta= pha]
  • Keep a playback history [Jeffrey Yasskin]
  • Major DND work [Yann Rouillard]
  • Use GnomeHRef for links [Mark Humphreys]
  • Tooltips, tooltips, tooltips everywhere! [Colin Walters]
  • Display time remaining in tray icon tooltip [Colin
    Walters]
  • Pass “make distcheck” [Colin Walters]
  • Squash various circular dependencies in the build system [Colin
    Walters]
  • Various other misc. bugfixes [Colin Walters, Yann Rouillard,
    Christophe Fergeau, Sean Harshbarger, Jeffrey Yasskin]

Also, there are new and updated translations:

Duarte Loreto (pt)
Murgel Tudor (ro)
Christophe Fergeau (fr)
Miloslav Trmac (cs)
Christian Rose (sv)
Kjartan Maraas (no)
Danilo =C5=A0egan (sr, sr@Latn)
Christian Neumair (de)
Evandro Fernandes Giovanini (pt_BR)
Mohammad DAMT (id)
Vincent van Adrighem (nl)
Metin Amiroff (az)
Young-Ho Cha (kr)
Abel Cheung (zh_TW)
Telsa Gwynne (cy)

As always, the latest Rhythmbox is available here:

http://rhythmbox.sf.net/download.html

http://web.rhythmbox.org/download.html

Enjoy!

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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