Few days ago was girlfriend’s 22th birthday, and I gave her a Creative Zen with video support… to let her be able to cross the world watching her favorites cartoons and youtube videos! 
During last nights I worked hard (yeah it was my first GUI ever, and first attempt with Gtk#) to give them another gift (it is a surprise), and now something is working: ZenCoder is ready!
ZenCoder is an usable frontend to mencoder, with a simple usage: just drop your videos on the Zen icon to start the conversion!
You can also choose the video (xvid scaled 320×240) and audio bitrate (mp3lame abr), skip conversions and view queued files.
Of course it supports RGBA colormap!
Yeah my girlfriend is both pretty and uses Linux, why I’m so lucky?
P.S.: If you have suggestions for improvements in the code feel free to poke me, this was really my first attempt in GUI programming, and it may have odd points. It also lacks of a good Makefile, an installation script and a .desktop entry. Please write me an email if you want to contribute.
Posted in English, GNOME, GTK, Murrine, Zencoder | 18 Comments »
I know that there are a lot of things that could look better with murrine, starting for example from tabs…
So here’s an anonymous, no registration required, mockup-submission-service for murrine:
http://murrine.cimitan.com/node/add/mockup
So, please send all your ideas! (starting from notebook/tabs… eheheh)
Good luck!
Posted in English, GNOME, Murrine, Themes | 7 Comments »
Unfortunately many people don’t use bugreports, maybe because they came from Windows where bugreports are not present and not encouraged. This post is just about this: please use bugreports.
If you find something that you don’t like, something that you think that can be improved, or if you just have an idea, use the bugzilla!
For example: there are some glitches when using a dark gtk+ theme with the murrine/clearlooks engine and…I’ll attach a screenshot…
Or: I would like to have an option to change the progressbar style on my murrine themes…
Or even more: I have made a mockup for the tabs/notebook of murrine, here it is…
So, please click here to send a new bugreport for murrine (development version, svn).
Eheheh… I love the GNOME’s bugzilla logo from andreasn (ops) alberto
Posted in ArchLinux, Compiz, English, GNOME, GTK, Icons, Metacity, Murrine, Themes | 11 Comments »
…or maybe you prefer help me with Murrine getting things done faster!
Due to lack of time I haven’t updated the code in the last few months, but If you want to help me we can start working on it from october.
The amazing stuff I’ve added from 0.53.1 in the development trunk guarantees a great flexibility in terms of *new styles* that can be added easily, so if you have some ideas or you are dreaming an innovative new style there’s no reason to keep it private in your mind.
I would really like to have a big community around Murrine and its website, there are a lot of things that can be done.
The channel is of course #murrine, in irc.freenode.net.
Comments are welcome too!
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We need a stronger community, new mockups and ideas, new good coders.
Would you like to join us?
If you want to be in, start writing a comment here, and join the gnome art channel (#gnome-art, irc.gimp.org).
Posted in English, Murrine | 6 Comments »
