[ANNOUNCE] Released xnoise v0.2.12

[shuerhaaken]

Dear all,

xnoise media player v0.2.12 and it's plugins are released.

The big new things for users are the Quicklist integration with Unity and alot of GUI changes, namely
the redesigned settings & add-media dialogs and plugin integration with
normal settings. There is also a new dialog that is presented on the first start, so that the user can easily add some media folders.

Also, there is a better user experience with desktop notifications and
the presentation of embedded album images.


I like to thank Georgi Karavasilev, who proposed a lot of GUI
improvements (not all of them have been implemented), created a new icon and brought some new ideas for usability improvements.
He made a lot of sketches to point out what should be improved and we had some discussions on xnoise design on irc (xnoise on freenode).


New Features and Fixes
======================
* Integrate Unity quicklists
* Add new application icon
* Add new first-start-widget for initial media import
* Redo Settings dialog with integration of plugins
* Redo Add-Media dialog
* Add preamp to equalizer
* Replace libotify based notifications with dbus based notifications
* Remove libnotify dependency
* Improve loading of embedded images
* Add keyboard shortcuts for various control actions
* Double-click on album image now toggles video fullscreen
* Add menu entry for fullscreen video and update translations
* Hide track progressbar in fullscreen window for streams
* Speed up album art update
* Do not import playlist files when scanning local folders
* Code cleanup
* Update translatations
* Bug fixes

You can download the new version here:
https://github.com/shuerhaaken/xnoise/downloads

Ubuntu ppa (build pending):
https://launchpad.net/~shkn/+archive/xnoise

Thanks to helpers, bug reporters and translators!

Regards
Jörn

[Georgi Karavasilev]

Georgi here:

Firstly - there are *a lot* more sketches that are yet to/can be implemented and we are bound to talk about those someday.

Second - If XNoise article appears on OMG! I am to be blamed for (yup, I happen to be Journalist there and I wrote an article about the player)

Third - why can't I connect to the #xnoise IRC room? IRC spills out something about bad key?

Fourth - I am also on Google+, but the XNoise account  there is not paying attention to my mentions (i iz sad kitteh)