Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Banshee, OLPC, Flourishing

Banshee Bookmarks If you use Banshee to listen to audio books, lectures, or similar, you'll enjoy the new Bookmarks plugin I committed tonight. It will ship with Banshee, but be disabled by default.
OLPC The latest build (368) is much faster, more responsive. I finally really played around with TamTam and eToys; what a blast! I also submitted my first patch to Sugar. Flourish There is a Linux conference called Flourish being held this weekend, April 6 and 7th, at UIC in Chicago. The conference is free if you register in advance. There will be speakers from Google, IBM, Red Hat, FSF, and Drupal. I'll be attending a couple of talks and the mixer (held at my office), and I'll bring my XO and Neo1973.

5 comments:

  1. Would be better if Bookmarks were a top level menu like it normally is in most applications.

    Do these bookmarks also make note of the positions within a file or just the file? (I see a number in the screenshot but that could be the offset or the track length.)

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  2. Hi Alan,

    I considered making it a top level menu, but didn't since it's not nearly as common of a thing to use in a music player compared to a browser. But that decision is not set in stone.

    And yes, they make note of your position within the file.

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  3. You could take a leaf out of Epiphany's book and organize bookmarks under topics (such as genre, or artist, but also user-specified).

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  4. This is what I'm looking for. I'm an Ubuntu noob coming from Windows. I like the 'resume' feature built in Itunes. How do I get this bookmarks pluggin? I don't see it listed in my Banshee installation.
    Thanks

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  5. Steve,

    You can get the bookmarks plugin in the latest Banshee release, 0.13.0. The plugin itself is actually compatible with much older versions, too. See https://banshee-project.org for more details.

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