Mirco Bauer has announced the new version of his GPL IRC Client called Smuxi. The version with the Codename ‘Bianca’ has four new major features included.
Mirco described the features by the following:
Initial support for Twitter has been implemented. This will allow you to send and receive tweets to the Twitter microblogging service. It supports the friends timeline, replies view, and direct messages. The character counter, Reply-To feature, and avatar support will follow in later releases.Smuxi is now able to flawlessly handle network connections with high latency which are common with UMTS, WLAN, and busy DSL and cable lines. All communication between the Smuxi frontend and the Smuxi server is now done as a background task using threads. This gives Smuxi a very responsive feel – just like a normal, locally running application – even with difficult network conditions
The IRC experience has been significantly improved. Smuxi will now send all unrecognized commands transparently to the IRC server and will show the reply directly to the user. In addition, the userlist and query menu have been extended to include common CTCP actions.
Smuxi now ensures that the text colors used in the tabs are easily readable, regardless of your GTK theme. It does this by using the proven-reliable color-contrast algorithm used by Smuxi 0.6.4.1 to generate nick colors.
Click on “more” to see the full feature list…
Source of this blog post: smuxi.org
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Today I was a little bit tired as I came home but I just wanted to install the new Smuxi 0.7 release on my Debian/Lenny Desktop PC. Now I will write just a small tutorial.
First, get the public key of Mirco Bauer (Key-ID: EEF946C8):
apt-key adv –keyserver pgp.surfnet.nl –recv-keys <keyid>
After that, add the key to apt:
apt-key export <keyid> | apt-key add -
Then you have to edit /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://debian.meebey.net/lenny-backports/smuxi /
At least you just have to install smuxi with apt-get install -t / “package”
I don’t have any idea why the packages cannot be authenticated. I just wanted to tell you how to import and add a gpg key, actually.
Cheers,
ikkerus
My collegue Mirco ‘meebey’ Bauer has announced that Smuxi has a cool new feature. He has integrated Twitter.
With the next Smuxi release you will be able to receive and send tweets from/to Twitter. For those who don’t know yet what Twitter is, it’s a micro-blogging tool which I integrated in this blog a few days ago. You can use Twitter from several applications. Smuxi supports the friends timeline, replies view and direct messages. Check out this screenshot which shows this feature in action.
Meebey is planning to add avatar and reply-mode support at some point later.
I’m looking forward to see what’s new in Smuxi. I’ll keep you posted.
You also can follow me at twitter: http://twitter.com/ikkerus
Take a look at meebey’s original post here
Today the Mozilla Foundation released their new version of the popular browser named Firefox. Firefox 3.6 is approaching the completion of development work. The new final 3.6 version will be available soon. The RC1 was released for public testing.
The new browser will change the handling of software add-ons from other manufacturers by using the Components director is blocked. There is a lot of Firefox’s own code and then try to recognize some of the enhancements in order to provide the browser with new features. However, this has no benefits, so the developers. There are drawbacks to the more: users can not manage these extensions on the add-on manager and there is no version control. The consequences include crashes because it can be incompatible with an update of the Firefox code these extensions. Dieses Eingangstor ist mit dem RC1 nun geschlossen worden. This gate has been closed with the RC1 now. Typical add-ons are not affected.
Firefox 3.6 with add-ons also know if they are expired. Thus, the browser will include the user from unsafe flash to warn players directly and ask for an update. That should eliminate vulnerabilities, but also stability problems more quickly, compared with the update mechanism from Adobe.
For now, only a few interesting is the possibility of Theora videos that have been involved with the Videotag to put directly from the browser via the context menu in full screen mode. The Videotag is one of the improvements in HTML 5, CSS and DOM. For further details about this can be found in the document Firefox 3.6 for Developers, which is still at the level of beta 5th
For further customizing the look of the browser user needs, there are now Personas directly in the browser. Zuvor brauchte es dafür ein Add-on. Previously it took for an add-on. The Tab-Preview-function for Windows-7-user has the development team of Firefox for the time being removed again. In the first beta versions it was still available.
If you want to download the RC1 of Firefox 3.6, go ahead here: Firefox 3.6 Download (there are several translations available)
Dear Blog-Reader,
I just got a few responses regarding to my project idea to develop a GUI for Git, called NautilusGIT. I registered the domain “nautilusgit.org” for a year and from now on its forwarded to the NautilusSVN project page. I think the forwarding via mod_rewrite will be changed again in a few days, maybe a week, to RabbitVCS.
RabbitVCS is a project with the goal of developing a collection of utilities to allow for better client integration with some of the popular version control systems. It’s written in Python. We’re looking forward for other contributors to this project.
I hope some other people who are reading this blog post will contribute to the project, maybe Development, Documentation, Translation etc.
Contact me via mail: ikkerus (at) ikkerus (dot) net
I will handle it. 
UPDATE: The domain nautilusgit.org is now forwarded to rabbitvcs.org !
The VLC Media Player was a project of a few students the French École Centrale Paris. They started to develop a cross-plattform multimedia-player. Now there are many many people arround the world (in 20 Countries) who are active in development.
Today the project management distributed the final release. The version 1.0 (Codename: Goldeneye).
Here are the features:
- Free, Open Source and cross-platform
- Independant of systems codecs to support most video types
- Live recording
- Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
- Finer speed controls
- New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, …)
- New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, …) and major improvements in many formats…
- New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
- Video scaling in fullscreen
- RTSP Trickplay support
- Zipped file playback
- Customizable toolbars
- Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
- Better integration in Gtk environments
- MTP devices on linux
- AirTunes streaming
- New skin for the skins2 interface
You can download the VLC Media Player at videolan.org.
Thanks for reading!
Today the Mozilla Coorporation released the new version of their developed Browser Firefox 3.5. The Browser comes with multiple changes.
Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use. Some of the notable features are:
- Available in more than 70 languages.
- Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio.
- Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
- Better web application performance using the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
- The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing.
- Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
- Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.
You can also see the full changelog here!
Well, I have heared some news about smuxi – developed by Mirco ‘meebey’ Bauer, a colleque.
This is about his new windows installer for smuxi. Smuxi is a smart and flexible IRC Client. I think I’m the only one who had the ability to get smuxi running on windows. But now the windows installer does anything you need to get that done for everyone!
The installer is a GUI using NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). I’ve written the main installer and meebey enhanced it with a full download implementation for the needed software like .NET and GTK# Runtime.
Taste the new installer – available on smuxi.org. There are some screenshots available, too!
- Download Smuxi
- View Screenshots
