Font Sadness
I remember the days, not so long ago, when I could drop new fonts in my ~/.fonts directory and run fc-cache. The next time I instantiated a GNOME font chooser dialog somewhere, I would see my new fonts. It seems that in GNOME 2.20, I now need to restart my entire GNOME session to have the fonts show up. What is up with that? There must be a way around this. Anyone? Anyone?
Suboptimal Theming in GTK
I am a fan of custom widgets. I write a lot of them. Most are not over the top, or even noticeable, but are useful. In fact, most of my widgets I more often call "composite" widgets instead of "custom." That is, a widget that does some common things to a group of child widgets. Not much involved, but reusable and useful in some context. Gtk# makes this kind of widget writing actually a simple and natural thing to do, unlike C, where you start your work by despising the task at hand. Ahhh - the usefulness of a good binding.
Audio profile configuration for the masses
Welcome to the second part of the "Things you may not know about Banshee" series of posts, where I highlight some cool features about Banshee that have been introduced in the 0.11.x series. I'm making up for all the blogging I haven't done in the last 4-5 months.
Just give them pictures
Last night I spent a little time updating the Banshee Wiki with a new home page layout and a new screenshots page - it was time for a little change. The screenshots that had been there since August of last year were showing just the bare functionality of 0.9.2, so it was time to show off all the new things Banshee can do!
Modern cars - they all look like electric shavers
Without any further delay, I bring you the Podcast plugin for Banshee, thanks to the arduous work of Mike Urbanski.
More from the Banshee Universe
At around 4 this morning I released Banshee 0.10.9, which encompasses some excellent changes.