Conduit 0.3.8

What's New?

  • New icons (mejogid)

Bugs Fixed:

  • Fixed #515648, [Patch] Added RGBA support for conduit (Jon Bolt, Andrea Cimitan)
  • Fixed #516410, Error in GoogleModule loading (John Stowers)
  • Fixed #516523, RSS FEED of mp3 doesn't download (John Stowers)
  • Fixed #516567, Please fix conduit.desktop file... (Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo)

Evolution Python

  • This has now been moved to GNOME SVN in the gnome-python-desktop module
  • You may use the standalone evolution-python, or the GNOME one (depending on your distro/packager)

Notes to Packagers

  • Web browser problems and crashes
    • If users experience crashes using online data providers, this could be due to a combination of;
      • Using conduit's built in web browser AND the /usr/bin/conduit wrapper not picking up firefox (and doing all its LD_LIBRARY_PATH hacks correctly
    • To resolve these issues ;
      • Look at the conduit wrapper and ensure the run-mozilla.sh gets called OR
      • Make the default web browser the system one patch Settings.py (not recommended)
      • You can test these changes by clicking on the developer menu items in the Help menu
  • F-spot
    • Support for non DBus enabled Fspot has been disabled. If you are packaging for an older release (e.g Gutsy) then you should disable FSpotDBusTwoWay and re-enable FSpotTwoWay (see MODULES at the top of FSpotDbusModule.py)
    • If you do wish to make the Conduit + F-spot experience better then consider changing the default value of F-spot's "Allow other programs to manipulate F-spot" preference to True
  • Dependencies
    • We require pygoocanvas > 0.9.0
    • We depend on python-vobject (and it brings in python date-util)
    • We ship a modified FlickrAPI (do not remove it)
    • We use libgmail from SVN
    • iPod photos requires libgpod > 0.6.0
    • If you use the gtkmozembed web browser then we require the python bindings to it (gnome-python-extras)
    • The AV converters require ffmpeg and mencoder
    • Since evolution-python is now in gnome-python-desktop we require a recent unstable release of that module (or the standalone evolution-python)
  • Conduit is configured to autorun at system startup. You can disable this if you like as there is currently no way to do so within conduit
  • There is no way to configure the gconf sync at this time. You can select a default set of gconf keys to sync by patching the dataprovider directly.
  • 0.4.0 will be a stable release. It is scheduled to be released with (and support) GNOME 2.22

Warning

This is a development release. Please do not use on data which you do not have otherwise backed up. If you are uncertain about Conduit then please select the "Ask me" option from conduit preferences with regard to two way synchronization - this prevents Conduit from deleting or overwriting files unless you explicitly tell it to.