Mumbles & Jaunty

I updated to Jaunty today & found a few issues with mumbles, the most problematic being the need for the plugins to be built with python 2.6.

I have updated the 0.4.2 branch to work in Jaunty.

Again, this is the branch that is in line for the next release and any testing/feedback would be appreciated as we work out the rest of the kinks.

On top of the plugin update, I updated the libnotify interceptor to replace the new Jaunty notify-osd (comments on notify-osd later…). The interceptor still has some issues with certain parts of the Freedesktop spec, so it can be unstable (it’s known to crash gwibber) and needs to be updated before we can release this version. The interceptor has just been updated to support the freedesktop 0.9 spec. This fixed my problem with gwibber and is hopefully complete enough to function without problems (though more features of the spec would be nice). Let me know if you run into any problems.

I also updated the theme handling so that themes can now use system theme colors (or continue to use theme overrides) - you’ll notice a new default theme and some updates to a few others. This was a feature request a while back and I think it it’s a very nice addition.

I know I suggested the release was coming out “soon” quite some time ago, but life managed to get in the way for all of us working on it (especially me). We do still have some things to update before it can be released but hopefully we can get it out the door soon.