[Gtkboard-devel] Version 0.11pre0 is out!

[Arvind N. <ar...@me...>]

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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:16:44 +0530
From: Arvind Narayanan <ar...@me...>
To: gtk...@li...
Subject: [Gtkboard-devel] Version 0.11pre0 is out!


Hi guys,

0.11pre0 is out!
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=193676

The changes in this release are mainly in UI and usability. This will
probably be the last release for a while, so I'm hoping that we can
get some testing and make a fairly stable 0.11 release. So it would
be nice if everyone could pitch in with some testing. Thanks.

After 0.11 there's a lot of work to be done in terms of API, code 
cleanup and other backend stuff, so I'll be shifting to that. I'm
taking a break for the next 10 days or so, though. Since Ron said
he'll start getting more free time, the logos module should pick
up in the meantime :)

Gtkboard finally has a gtkboardrc file (~/.gtkboard/gtkboardrc).
Currently there are only a few settings that can be changed in the
config file, but the important thing is that the code to parse
and write the file is there.

So what else is new? We have a logo :)
http://gtkboard.sourceforge.net/images/logo.png
The logo is shown in the About dialog box, but only when gnome
support is enabled.

That brings us to gnome support. I've added optional gnome 
support with the --enable-gnome configure option (turned off by
default.) Currently it doesn't do much; just the gnome_about 
widget and for launching a url from the program. But I plan
to make use of the gnome libs for lots more things in the 
future: documentation, gconf, libxml, i18n etc. Since not
everyone will have gnome, it will always be optional. IMHO
better gnome integration will go a long way in having a better
chance to get included in linux distros.

Coming to distros, gtkboard is now in debian testing
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gtkboard.html
thanks to Barak Pearlmutter. Maybe we should try to get shipped
by default with some other distros? (that is, before we reach
1.0). That would require stuff like documentation and i18n to
get priority, diverting resources, but on the other hand it 
will give us a huge userbase. What does everyone think? Should
we make a bid for it? What's involved in getting shipped by
say Redhat anyway? I've no idea... 

The only major features that need to go in before gtkboard
is release-worthy are saving/loading games, proper plugin
support, and drag and drop. The rest is just polishing. I'd
love to hear your opinions on this issue.

The current set of sounds is stolen from various programs
in my /usr/share/sounds directory. They'll be there until I
get time to make some sounds for gtkboard. BTW, how does a
program know where the sounds are installed? The DATADIR
variable is known at compile time, but this can be overridden
by the user at install time (eg: relocatable rpm). I couldn't
find any solution to this. I checked the source of some other
games but they use a compiled-in path as well. Anyone know a
better solution?

I'm using the SDL_Mixer module for sound, and it seems to
have a bug due to which sometimes, *randomly*, there are
delays of up to 1 second between the program calling the
play function and the sound actually playing. There is a known
issue where delays occur if the buffer size is large, but
that's not the case here. So I'm just hoping that this 
problem will go away in the future.

Arvind
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