The Board 0.1.0
Today I’m officially joining the GNOME Old Farts Club. I thought it would be a good time to make the first release of The Board. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Board 0.1.0! I wanted to do this a few weeks ago but with so many moving parts in our platform it was actually a bit hard to reach a point where all dependencies were actually working fine together. So, what is this release about?
Feedback. First of all, this is not a release for users. The Board is buggy, unstable, and lacking features at the moment. But it’s in a dogfoodable state for developers and expert Linux users. Current feature list includes:
- Add, load, remove pages
- Photo, video, note and label elements
- Add, edit, remove, resize elements in a page
- Basic Firefox and Chrome extensions
- Basic Nautilus extension
I’m expecting to get some useful feedback from early testers and developers on those features and the general UX. You can get an idea of what’s in the release by having a look at the previous blog posts and respective videos listed in The Board’s wiki page.
Contributors. If you’re a developer interested in setting up a development environment to start hacking on The Board, have a look at the hacking page. I wrote a script—heavily based on what GNOME Shell provides—that automates most of the process of fetching and building dependencies from git. Please report any build problems on GNOME Bugzilla. I filed bug reports for quite a few known bugs and missing features that should be a good source for initial contributions.
Distros. Even though building The Board and its dependencies became much easier with the above-mentioned script, it’s might still be a bit painful to get The Board running on your system. So, here’s a call for distro packagers to create easy-to-install packages to be used by early testers. The idea is to be able to provide the simplest possible way to get The Board running on all major Linux distros.
So, what’s next? I’ll continue to fix bugs and hopefully make a 0.2.0 release soon with a couple of new features: audio elements with voice recording capability and support for actions—align, distribute, remove, etc—on multiple elements in a page. I expect to be doing more frequent releases from now on.
Looks interesting, not bad for developing on free time.
No seu aniversário é você que dá presente a comunidade? :)
Isso que é um cara com espírito da dádiva! Parabéns então pela nova versão 0.1.0 do the board e pela nova versão “30.0″ da vida! rsrs
Abração!
Nice! Please think about adding pasteboard functionality like moblin used to have: http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-netbook-intro/how-get-around-moblin-netbook-ui/pasteboard-panel
Thanks!
@anonim: as the author of the moblin pasteboard, and though I loved the functionality, I strongly advise against implementing it. there are a number of issues that are barely specified, and functionality that would be very useful to provide cannot be implemented.
Looks great.
Just a heads up, I had to do:
jhbuild -f ~/.jhbuildrc-the-board buildone libsoup
so that the-board would finish building.
Maybe this can be added to the moduleset file.
@Ryan, Strange, it shouldn’t fail when libsoup is not available. Maybe you have libsoup-dev distro packages installed without the introspection bits? Anyway, I added libsoup and libnotify to the moduleset. Thanks!
Hi Lucas! :-)
the only thing is that each of these things have their own private copy of the gnome stack. Painful since I now have more than one copy of glib etc etc. Any chance we could have a single cohesive one that we can build anything including gnome 3/ gnome 3 + theboard etc?
@Sri, Yeah, ideally, there should be a nice way to share module among different jhbuild setups. The build script and instructions are for beginners on jhbuild stuff. For instance, it’s totally fine to just build The Board inside, say, a GNOME Shell jhbuild setup. You’d only need to build a few extra dependencies. But that’s the kind of thing that experienced jhbuild users will do anyway.
Parabéns, cara! Muitas felicidades! Ano que vem eu entro para o clube. Abração! Ah… sua filha tá linda demais!
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