Conduit 0.3.13

What's New?

  • Much improved RSS feed enclosure support, thanks to the use of the python-feedparser module.
  • Merge platform abstraction branch for improved startup time and a great many architectural improvements.
  • Conflict inprovements. Duplicate conflicts should no longer be shown in the UI.
  • The UI should will now reuse your theme colors
  • Finer borders and smaller rectangles to match closer with GNOME style
  • Usage hints are now displayed at the bottom of the window, indicating steps that should be taken after one adds items to the Canvas
  • A number of example Conduits can be created from the File->Examples menu

Bugs Fixed

  • Fixed #516646, Welcome message remains on canvas after dataprovider added (John Stowers)
  • Fixed #517877, Scrolling in Canvas Pane not working correctly (John Stowers)
  • Fixed #525259, the canvas pane become a mess for remote startup (John Stowers)
  • Fixed #528221, Evo to iPod synchronisation fails (John Carr)
  • Fixed #530768, update conflicts after a new sync (John Stowers)
  • Fixed #543366, Replacement of modified items could be more efficient (Manuel J. Garrido)
  • Fixed #543534, The "Conduit Manual" window crashes. (John Stowers)
  • Fixed #543685, Feedmodule should use feedparser (John Stowers)
  • Fixed #543738, Patch: Add data-type for bookmarks. (Andrew Stormont)
  • Fixed #544712, "Add directory" button throws error when adding "Files" source (John Stowers)
  • Fixed #545129, GoogleContact : Crash to push a contact with not email (Roumano)
  • Fixed #545728, Picasa doesn't delete photos in one way syncs (Manuel J. Garrido)
  • Fixed #509702, conduit segfaults when quitting (John Stowers)

Translations

  • Updated gl: Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
  • Updated es: Jorge Gonzalez <jorgegonz@svn.gnome.org>
  • Updated ar: Djihed Afifi <djihed@gmail.com>
  • Updated pt_BR: Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
  • Updated pt: Duarte Loreto

Notes to Packagers

  • Web browser problems and crashes
    • If users experience crashes using online data providers, this could be due to a combination of;
      • Using conduit's built in web browser AND the /usr/bin/conduit wrapper not picking up firefox libs/run-mozilla.sh script (which sets mozilla LD_LIBRARY_PATH hacks correctly)
    • To resolve these issues ;
      • Look at the conduit wrapper and ensure the run-mozilla.sh gets called OR
      • Make the default web browser the system one patch Settings.py (not recommended)
      • You can test these changes by clicking on the developer menu items in the Help menu
    • The run-mozilla.sh hack is no longer needed with Gecko 1.9/Firefox 3
  • F-spot
    • If you do wish to make the Conduit + F-spot experience better then consider changing the default value of F-spot's "Allow other programs to manipulate F-spot" preference to True
  • Dependencies
    • We require pygoocanvas > 0.9.0
    • We depend on python-vobject (and it brings in python date-util)
    • We ship a modified FlickrAPI (do not remove it)
    • iPod photos requires libgpod > 0.6.0
    • If you use the gtkmozembed web browser then we require the python bindings to it (gnome-python-extras)
    • The AV converters require ffmpeg and mencoder
    • Since evolution-python is now in gnome-python-desktop we require a recent unstable release of that module (or the standalone evolution-python)
  • Conduit is configured to autorun at system startup. You can disable this if you like as there is currently no way to do so within conduit