Qball’s Weblog

This release is spit and polish release, on both the gui side: new icon theme (humanity), updated base icons theme, updated metadata browser, etc. and the code side: Async image loader, Async mpd query, more code moved to vala, vala generated code is no longer included, etc.

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)

Download

Source release: here Windows 32 release: here Windows 32 portable app: here