[Clipart] Re: Clip Art Browser 0.39

[Greg Steffensen]

Oops... the link is 

http://download.berlios.de/ocalhelper/clipartbrowser-0.39.tar.gz

Greg

On 8/27/05, Greg Steffensen <greg.steffensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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