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GPX Viewer improvements

  • Show a list of track points. (see screenshot)
  • Docks, so you can reorder the view.
  • Improved playback
  • Multiple map source support.
  • Show/Disable graph data points.
  • Recent file support.
  • About window

Added but not enabled:

  • Vertical speed graph.
  • Acceleration graph.
  • Filter out bad data points using the Chauvenets Criterion.

Posted in General.

By Qball
March 7, 2010

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GPX-Viewer improvements

Last few days I have been improving gpx-viewer, a quick list:

  • Support multiple maps (cycle map, transport map, etc).
  • Fix playback
  • Show elevation difference/Gradient.
  • Recent File support.
  • Distance vs. time graph.
  • Docks.

I added docks using libgdl, but having some problems.  If somebody can tell me what I am doing wrong?

Problems I am having: 1. Sometimes the dock when dragged is empty (until docked again). 2. Sometimes widgets in the dock are disappearing.

I do think it is some improvement..

Screenshots:



Posted in General, gpxviewer.

By Qball
February 27, 2010

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Photo 2

Photo of same scene. Different weather (and post processing)

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By Qball
February 25, 2010

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Photo

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By Qball
February 16, 2010

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Use GMRUN as run dialog

Open ‘gconf-editor’

Lookup the ‘apps/metacity’ folder.

Open the subfolder “global_keybindings”and set “panel_run_dialog” to “disable”.

Next set (in the same folder), “run_command_1″ to “<Alt>F2″

Now open (in “apps/metacity”) the subfolder “keybinding_command” and set key “command_1″ to “gmrun”.

Now hitting Alt-F2 should get you gmrun, instead of the stock run dialog.

Posted in General.

By Qball
February 16, 2010

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Abusing gmpc-shout for visualization.

Who sais you need to use gmpc-shout for audio playback?

Enter this as command (adjusted for you use case offcourse):

?????????gst-launch souphttpsrc location=http://localhost:8000/ ! queue ! mad ! audioconvert ! libvisual_jess ! video/x-raw-rgb,width=640,height=360,framerate=25/1 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! queue ! xvimagesink

(this is for an http output running on localhost, streaming mp3 data).

Posted in gmpc.

By Qball
February 14, 2010

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Odd pricing

I managed to break my watch 1 month ago when falling down with my bike riding on a completely iced up road. The glass actually broke on the inside. It is a (simple) pulsar watch I like a lot.

Today I got it back with a new glass, waterproofed and all. They charged me € 25 for this. (it was send to pulsar and back again, the form I had to fill in was in German.)  Now the odd part is, last time the battery was empty, and I wanted it replaced (and water proofed) this would cost me 10 euro for the battery and +- 20 euro for the water proofing (I finally just let the local shop replace the battery).  How the hell is something simple as replacing the battery more expansive then replacing the glass (that is some sort of hardened mineral crystal thingy).

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By Qball
February 13, 2010

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GMPC, a new release is due. Maybe!

I have been working on and off on the new GMPC release.

Until now there have been 3 pre-releases:

?Beta 1, 2, 3

But I need help!  Help on this release (testing mostly!) and in general.

For this release I need people testing GMPC:

  • I have hit several times a rare crash, that I was unable to track back or reproduce.
  • Marking bugs “to be tested” as fixed.  Bugtracker.
  • Website needs updating. (screenshot, guides etc)
  • Plugins need to be verified if they still work.

Most of the work is coordinated via #gmpc @ irc.freenode.net, I also try to announce things on the #gmpc on identi.ca.

You can get the latest (testing) gmpc here:

Changes in the upcoming release (not complete):

New features

  • Humanity icon theme
  • A pixbuf cache. Avoid loading image at the same size twice, and reloading images.
  • Async loading/scaling off images from the hard-disk.
  • Async mpd query handler. Loads data over a separate connection.
  • Copy message to clipboard button.
  • Use load command to make mpd load remote playlists (mpd 0.16 only)
  • Update now playing look.
  • Support for showing and setting ‘raw image data’. This makes a plugin that reads embedded image possible.
  • Make HTML text correctly display. (Converting to utf8)
  • Do no close the popup, when mouse over.
  • Remember previous path in file-selectors.
  • Add quick-playlist-add menu to favorite button.
  • Add ’search-as-you-type’ option to search.
  • Support easy-command via gmpc-remote
  • Allow to jump to metadata browser from now playing.

Updates

  • A updated hicolor theme.
  • Make metadata browser use the style off the new now-playing browser.
  • Fix sorting order off the Database browser.
  • Speedup filling of directory view in file browser.
  • Fixed several smaller and larger memory leaks.
  • Sorting bug in metadata.
  • Remove unused function.
  • metadata browser: Double click opens song, not plays it.

Removed

  • Do not load weblinks from the wiki anymore (possible security risk)

Build updates

  • Do not include vala generated C code, generate this build time. (in git)

Posted in General, Grind My Gears, gmpc.

By Qball
February 7, 2010

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My server moved

Greg (the best!!)  who is generously (thank you) hosting my website moved servers. So please let me know if you encounter errors.

In other news, well there is none..

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By Qball
January 18, 2010

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Stuffkeeper, finally an update

I finally updated stuffkeeper again, this is support for supporting visual links to f.e. files,

This was allready somewhat possible with the link entry. But this is nicer for linking files in an item.

The files are not copied in the database, because off the simple reason I do not want the duplicate files and so. (could be done offcourse).

Posted in General, StuffKeeper.

By Qball
January 10, 2010

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