Handful of Nothing

I know there’s no much time left, but I think it should be nice to see at least in a blurry way (sorry folks only my 3250’s camera photos) some of the things that we pumped into canola since the testing release (last week). I’m impressed with the amount of work and debugging we did.

First thing I would like to thanks again every single tester that gave us a lot of excellent feedbacks and bug reports. This really made us focus on the things that needed a lot more love : the canola configuration tool, and the scan for new media daemons.

Also, Chenca did some nice key + touch combos for browsing the list along with some improvements on text rendering. He and Cidorvan also did a great job pumping the volume bar and rating features in the playing screen. Now I think we are even closer to the point that we really want for local media playblack. Some basic features are missing, and some users will complain about it… but we swear that we are going to release it as fast as possible!

To finish, I think people will also like Miguels (the new graphics intern) new theme, wood_box, and I will also release for the themers, a guide line with all dimensions and how to create new themes. To change them is pretty easy just go to the Canola Web Configure and choose your favorite theme!

Tip for themers : Chenca did us a great favor : you can just (via ssh) create a new dir, and put there only the images that you want to change. Some people just want a new background, so just place you background.png image in the /usr/share/canola/themes/YourBrandNewTheme/data/ folder that the theme changer will treat it as a complete folder =) A simple 200×120 png saved as thumb.png in the root of your theme’s folder will also make it better !

See you all in 1 day! =)