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Totem StatusIcon plugin

infinito — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:54:44 +0000

This sunny sunday morning, I’ve spent my time writing my first plugin for the Totem Player. It’s a simple plugin that adds a status icon to Totem, which you can use to hide/unhide Totem’s window, toggle play/pause, go to the next or previous item in the playlist, or go to fullscreen mode.

Some people will say this is useless, but sometimes, I use Totem as a music player, because I don’t like Audacious, BMP, and those WinAmp clones no more, and I just wanted a status icon to hide the window from the taskbar. Maybe more people feels like me…

Download from here: totem-statusicon-0.1.tar.gz
Check for new versions here: http://www.infinicode.org/code/totem/

Rhythmbox Open Folder plugin updated to 0.3

infinito — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:02:39 +0000

After I read this bug report, I updated my Rhythmbox Open Folder plugin with a patch provided by Steven Brown, which basically add supports for the plugin on podcasts list, playlists and the queue list. And also, in future versions, make the plugin appears above the “Properties” menu option, instead of below (see screenshot below).

Download: rb-open-folder-0.3.tar.gz

DokuWiki plugins

infinito — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:05:33 +0000

Well, I’ve forgot to post that I’ve published two little DokuWiki plugins, one for adding a search form to any page, and another to add little 16px icons, like folder, image, sound….

You can grab them (and show some examples) here.

And of course, you can watch them in action in the wiki.

Booting into a “powersaving” version of Ubuntu

infinito — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:16:52 +0000

In this article I will explain how to boot into different environments with the same operative system (Ubuntu in this case) from the grub bootloader.

I wanted this setup to have an option in the boot menu to load a light and powersaving environment in my laptop, so I can use it on trains or air planes without AC outlet as long as I can.

Also you can use this setup to have, for example, a standard Ubuntu, a Media Center Ubuntu (using Elisa or XBMC), a Text Console Ubuntu (for maintenance duties), a GNOME Ubuntu, a KDE Ubuntu, etc…

Read the article here

pyRenamer 0.6.0 released

infinito — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:44:27 +0000

Well, after a few days of coding, I’ve finally released the 0.6.0 version of (your favourite mass renaming application) pyRenamer. It comes with the most requested features from users, as well as lots of bugfixes. I hope everyone like this new version!

Also, pyRenamer’s website has been modified, with new screenshots, information on how to help translating pyRenamer to your language, new bug tracker and questions/answers system, etc.

In next version, I will focus on make the patterns more powerful, moving the image renaming to hachoir-metadata like music, and add some GUI improvements. You can check the TODO file for more information.

By now, you can download it and install it!


Downloads:
→ Source code: pyrenamer-0.6.0.tar.gz
→ Debian/Ubuntu: pyrenamer_0.6.0-1_all.deb


New features:
→ You can save your favorite patterns to reuse them
→ Undo/redo feature
→ Now you can rename more music formats (ogg, real… those supported by hachoir)
→ You can keep file extensions untouched while renaming
→ Now you can rename directories
→ Allow renaming files and moving them to another directory
→ Added some icons to identify file types
→ Added random number pattern {rand}
→ Added refresh option, to reload files and directories
→ Added autopreview option
→ Add option to fix duplicated symbols on filename
→ Add option to ignore next errors while renaming
→ Better explanations on error dialogs
→ New icon


Bug fixes:
→ Files don’t appear duplicated anymore
→ The position of the window is now placed correctly when pyRenamer starts
→ Fixed bug when trying to display error dialog on bad preferences
→ Reverse elements on recursive listing, so we rename deeper files and directories first
→ Fix file capitalization
→ If root or active dir is hidden, pyrenamer fails no more
→ Use {myear} for getting an album year in music renaming, instead of {year}
→ Fix crash when a id3 tag is not available or wrong, returning an empty filename (LP: #235161)
→ Fix crash while processing some bad exif tags, catching possible exceptions (LP: #261832)
→ Fix crash while starting, fixing src/treefilebrowser.py (LP: #237482)
→ Fix crashing when extension or name are empty
→ Fixes on manual renaming: cleaning correctly and changing file with keyboard.


Thanks:
Christophe Perez (French translation)
Vinzenz Vietzke (German translation)
Christian Kirbach (German translation)
Piotr Ożarowski (Debian sponsor)


This version of pyRenamer was released while listening to Posession‘s “Memento Mori” and Baroness discography.

pyRenamer 0.5.0 released

infinito — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:07:25 +0000

I’ve just released a little bugfix version of pyRenamer, with just one new remarkably feature, the posibility to load the filenames from a text file. Changelog:

* Added option to read new file names from a text file
* Smaller progress bar and new stop icon
* Added option to replace spaces to dashes and viceversa
* Czech language accents replacement (thanks to Jan Virt)
* Fixed pygtk imports (add pygtk.require())

Downloads from the usual place.
Source code: pyrenamer-0.5.0.tar.gz
Ubuntu/Debian: pyrenamer_0.5.0-1_all.deb

UPDATE: Ubuntu Gutsy .deb: pyrenamer_0.5.0-1_all~gutsy.deb

pyRenamer video manual II

infinito — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:16:05 +0000

Thanks to Guillermo Latorre, you can watch a new video manual for pyRenamer, with spanish audio.

Rhythmbox Open Folder Plugin

infinito — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:58:42 +0000

I’ve been using Rhythmbox as my main music player for years, and I’ve always missed an option to open the folder that contains one chosen song. So yesterday, I wrote my first plugin for RB, that fix this. Now you right-click a song, and select “Open containing folder” to get its folder opened. Easy and fast.

You can grab the sources from here.

To install it:
$ cd ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/ $ wget http://www.infinicode.org/code/rb/rb-open-folder-latest.tar.gz $ tar xzf rb-open-folder-latest.tar.gz

And then open rhythmbox, go to Edit -> Plugins and enable Open Folder.

That’s all folks!

pyRenamer 0.4.1 (was) released

infinito — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:11:06 +0000

Just for the record (and for Pichal), pyRenamer 0.4.1 was released a few weeks ago…

Source code
Debian/Ubuntu package

You can also install it from official repositories on Debian Unstable, Debian Testing, Ubuntu Gutsy, FreeBSD ports…

pyRenamer 0.3 released

infinito — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:18:47 +0000

I’ve released a quick new release for pyRenamer, with bugfixes and other stuff:
* Added internationalization support (english and spanish by now)
* Better handling of file selection filter
* Better manual renaming (you can use page_up and page_down to select next/prev file)
* Set good default values for window pos/size (bugfix)
* Bugfixes

Download:
Source code: pyrenamer-0.3.tar.gz
Debian/Ubuntu: pyrenamer_0.3-1_all.deb

Enjoy!