GNOME Do 0.8 alpha 1 release!

[Christopher Halse Rogers]

Good morning 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 31 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
develop, leading to:
*

[Christopher Halse Rogers]

Leading to me accidentally hitting send!
To finish, then:

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. Linq is now used extensively, so
IEnumerable is the order of the day.

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!

[Bas]

 * 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.

Parts of that are still non-correctly-working, you'll see me in IRC tomorrow with my results. :D

[Siegfried Gevatter (RainCT)]

You can get an amd64 tarball for Ubuntu Intrepid from here:

http://utils.eurion.net/hosted/gnome-do_0.7.95.1-0~intrepid~ppa1_amd64.deb

[David Siegel]

We have our own, official amd64 deb file:
https://edge.launchpad.net/do/trunk/0.7.95

David