Bugs can be reported here: http://bugs.launchpad.net/do Please search for your problem before posting a bug to be sure that you don't create a duplicate bug report.
When you get the alpha up and running, please reply to this thread with a nice screenshot :) We'd like confirmation that it works (and we'd like to see how well it works). Thank you, David On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Christopher Halse Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good morning (again) campers! > > After a long gestation, the next release of GNOME Do and its plugins > is now ready to enter alpha testing. While the new features and code > are now nearly complete, there are still some edges to knock off. > Help us do this by testing, and filing bugs! > > Some of the new features include: > * For the users: > - shiny new Do themes, with animations. > * Items with children now have arrows indicating the fact. No more > right-arrowing just to see if it works! > * New interface style: Docky. A panel interface for Do, dynamically > showing the top-relevance items in Do's universe. Docky displays > running processes, and supports drag-and-drop of items to and from the > panel. Also has sweet, smooth zoom! > * A new all-in-one plugins tarball! Now contains both official and > community plugins, for a total of 57 plugins currently available. In > return, online repositories have been dropped; there are too many bugs > they cause that we can't fix. > > * For the hackers: > - Pluggable interfaces, making new UIs easier to write and ship > - Core is now mostly a set of (hopefully) cross-platform interfaces > with pluggable implementations. This should make porting Do to Windows > and OS X easier. > - The plugin API has changed. Arrays have been replaced with > IEnumerables across the board. > > So, time for testers to step up! > > - Tarballs can be found on Launchpad - Core at > https://launchpad.net/do/+download and plugins at > https://launchpad.net/do-plugins/+download > - Intrepid packages can be found in the do-testers PPA at > http://launchpad.net/~do-testers/+archive > - SuSE users can use the Mono:Community repositories > * http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/Mono:Community/openSUSE_11.0/gnome-do.ymp > for SuSE 11.0 > * http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/Mono:Community/openSUSE_11.1/gnome-do.ymp > for SuSE 11.1 > > Get cracking! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GNOME Do" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
