Reign Drops Fall…

Version 0.1.2 of Coaster is here. Here is what I have added/fixed in this release:

• Added Undo/Redo for adding, removing, and renaming.
• Added the use of icon themes and icon caching.
• Removed dependency on libgnomeuimm and libgnomecanvasmm.

That’s right, last night was laundry night, but really, for Coaster, it was all weekend. I cleaned up the icon changing stuff. I now have a program-wide Gtk::IconTheme and Gnome::UI::ThumbnailFactory which store Gdk::Pixbuf refptrs into a std::map for quick lookup. It actually works pretty slick. I’ll get it uploaded as soon as harshy gets our arch repo (which I screwed up) fixed. Hopefully that’ll be within the next few days.

Speaking of harshy, he uploaded new screenshots which were made of the latest Coaster using gtkmm 2.4.

The remainder of this week should be spent working on more fixups for Coaster’s GUI as well as finding a reception spot for my wedding in August and a hotel for that night. Finding a honeymoon suite in Omaha, NE online is harder than you think (or maybe I’m just looking in the wrong spots).

Coaster development has started moving lately. harshy has just updated the site with screenshots of the GUI and how to download all the parts of Coaster (that don’t really do much right now).

Lately, my work has been on getting icon themes to work with the GUI of Coaster. It works, but it’s still too slow for my tastes. For the past few days, I’ve been planning out a mechanism that caches icon themes in a std::map for quick lookup based on mime-type. I know, I know… I should be focusing on getting session removing and other important things working, but this was too much fun .

I still don’t have a release of libpanelappletmm ready. I think I’ll either get that out tonite or tomorrow (at the latest). Oh, and I’m on Planet GNOME now. It’s quite exciting.

Tonite will be spent babysitting (yeah, people let me watch their kids… it’s pretty scary), but hopefully I won’t be too wiped after that to finish that release. And for the record, I love September a ton!