njpatel83 said:
I am also working hard to complete the folowing in Awn:<br /> + Task notifications (ie a little bubble over the task icon).<br /> + Ability to change the task icons.<br /> + Fixing *all* warnings and maybe compiling with -Werror<br /> + Plugins - yes, I'm not waiting for the next release, I want this feature, so its happening ASAP.

all this sounds great!!! Glad your back.

I can't wait to see plugins, i really want a gmail plugin.

Great to have you back! I can't wait to see Arena, I've been looking for a good front-row-like player for Linux that's not huge and monolithic like MythTV, and nothing I've found thus far (freevo, elisa) has worked. AWN plugins will be awesome (lots of people have been asking me if they're possible), but I'd also like to see some more work on task management too, mainly the ability to have all windows of an app in one icon.

I have just bought a domain on which I hope to public SVN my Nautilus & Gtk stuff, so you guys can test it. I'll blog it once it's ready.

Awesome! I'll probably put packages for those in my repo too. I think I may need to change the name of the repo section from 'avant-window-navigator', since it has a lot more than just AWN now. :)

Updated AWN-svn package is uploading to my repo as we speak. *prepares for deluge of support questions*

EDIT: Repo updated!

searayman said:
Just a quick suggestion now that you're back. You should probably make a post on your blog about being back cause mnay users might be watching your rss fedd but not this forum.

Yep, I see what you saying :). I didn't want to blog without some code to back it up, but I am currently putting the finishing touches on some work stuff, so I'm 90% sure I'll be blogging today and I'll be sure to add it in :).

delfick said:
your blog has been quiet for ages, and i just randomly had the urge to look at this forum (don't have time to read any forum on a regular basis anymore :( .....)

Depending on how much time I get, hopefully there will be another post today, and I promise it contains bling :).

delfick said:
can't wait for plugins to awn :D

Nor can I :). I have a mini cairo-clock sitting on my Awn right, now, and it looks very nice indeed :). I should have some inital code this weekend, so stay tuned!

JonathanC said:
I don't want to steal the pleasure of revealing new features from Neil, but one new thing is this:

(O.O)

Yay! Rebuilding SVN now, I'll update the Ubuntu repo too.

JonathanC said:
* A preferences window to change the position of the launchers in the dock: AWN Icon Preferences

how do u open that, i can't find it......JonathanC said:
* Fading icons: a new dock animation alternative to the bouncing icons (still buggy, at least for me)

this feature has been in the gconf-editor options but are u saying it is in the menue to chaneg now? If so where is this too?

JonathanC said:
Just right click on the dock (not on a launcher), there will be two options: one opens the usual preferences window, the other will open the new one.

yea i clicked that but mine doesn't work.....i click it and it never opens....grrrr

gilir said:
launch it in a terminal : avant-launchers.
For me, he can't find a .desktop on my Desktop (strange ...)

what are u talkign about?

JonathanC said:
What the heck... I just noticed this two edits of the first post by Neil... I feel dumb!

lol, i didnt notice those either. And Neil my thingy doesnt work like stated above...

karmapolice said:
It will crash if one of the launchers on the list doesn't exist.

Hmm, I'll check this out when I get home, must be a pyhon/gnomedesktop issue.

gilir said:
Test it with the command line. In a terminal, you can type "avant-launchers" to see why it's crashing.

mike@mike-desktop:~$ avant-launchers
/usr/local/share/avant-window-navigator/avant-launchers.glade
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/avant-launchers", line 166, in <module>
app = main()
File "/usr/local/bin/avant-launchers", line 84, in __init__
self.make_model ()
File "/usr/local/bin/avant-launchers", line 149, in make_model
self.model.set_value (row, 1, self.make_row (i))
File "/usr/local/bin/avant-launchers", line 153, in make_row
item = gnomedesktop.item_new_from_file (uri, 0)
gobject.GError: Error reading file 'file:///home/mike/Desktop/firefox.desktop': File not found
mike@mike-desktop:~$

searayman said:
mike@mike-desktop:~$ avant-launchers
/usr/local/share/avant-window-navigator/avant-launchers.glade
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/avant-launchers", line 166, in <module>
app = main()
File "/usr/local/bin/avant-launchers", line 84, in __init__
self.make_model ()
File "/usr/local/bin/avant-launchers", line 149, in make_model
self.model.set_value (row, 1, self.make_row (i))
File "/usr/local/bin/avant-launchers", line 153, in make_row
item = gnomedesktop.item_new_from_file (uri, 0)
gobject.GError: Error reading file 'file:///home/mike/Desktop/firefox.desktop': File not found
mike@mike-desktop:~$

grr, stuff like this makes me want to code it in C :-).

Can you please upgrade to latest svn and see if it works for you :-).

I think you probably have some old launcher paths in your gconf, hence avant-launchers couldn't find them.

--Neil

searayman said:
But no wi have a big white space inbetween the first entry and second entry, i am uploadign a screenshot as we speak

njpatel83 said:
niiice :). Can you update and try again please :)

all good now thanks!!

Thats whta i call real time bug fixes, lol

davim said:
So! No news yet?? :D

Not yet, I am working hard on the applets at the moment. I didn't want to use Bonobo like the gnome-panel, and it's important to have applets running as separate processes for Awn's stability. Hence I am 'rolling my own' by using GtkSocket & GtkPlug with DBus as the IPC. It's actually quite cool :).

Hopefully the weekend will give me enough time to finish/commit it.

--Neil