[Clipart] Clip Art Browser 0.39

[Greg Steffensen]

I'm releasing version 0.39 of the clip art browser. Naturally, this is an 
almost-ready snapshot of the next major release, 0.4. Installation works the 
same as with past releases, although I don't think Jon's very cool Makefile 
will work. The two big missing features that will be added for 0.4 are 
making the "Import Clip Art" gui (it requires threading, and pygtk threading 
always drives me nuts), and some kind of progress bar during the retrieval 
of large result sets. 

For this version, a ton of code was revamped, and the result is a 
significantly more usable and more extensible product (I think). The 
interface, in particular, was violently redone.

http://sharelinux.org/?q=node/1

You'll have to index your clip art using the indexClipart.py script before 
using it. Also, for now, I wouldn't reccomend using the ocal_net module with 
it, simply for performance... once I have a progress dialog, that will be 
more doable. There's a ton of changes in here, most of which were inspired 
by the recent thread about the project on this mailing list (in particular, 
Nathan's xml category-hierarchy idea proved useful). Also, this version is 
significantly more independent of Inkscape. I'll provide more documentation 
soon, but check out the config file; you can now have it open up images in 
arbitrary programs that you specify, all cleanly integrated into the UI. 
Feedback, as always, is very welcome. I'll try to have 0.4 out by, oh say... 
Wednesday :).

Greg
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