GPixPod

I have just uploaded on SF the new version of GPixPod, featuring:

• Drag & Drop of supported image files added for the treeview.
• Added gettext support for internationalization
• Added Italian translation
• Fixed a bug when browsing the filechooser with the keyboard
• Fixed a bug in the details pane: previous image not cleared if the next one is not found
• Removed iPod Photo/Nano warnings. Modified iPod Color warning
• Fixed exception about filechooser when creating new photo db.

Download!

I have finally implemented the much requested image preview in the filechooser when adding photos (now it remember the last locations, too!); the details of a photo in the right pane of the application are now displayed just with a single click on the left pane tree view. In the adding/renaming photo album dialog now it’s enough to press to confirm; many other bugfixes are related to the right pane details view and the preferences dialog.

Now the priorities of the work in progress are drag & drop support and internationalization. iPod Color users: I need to know if GPixPod is working for you. The iPod Color support is at moment only guessed, based on the iPod Photo details.
 Download tarball, deb or rpm from SF clicking here.

I have just released GPixPod 0.3.1 on SourceForge (tarball, debian package, rpm, win32 setup) with the following features:

• Fixed ratio scaling when converting images to interlaced UYVY (used in the iPod for TV output)
• Single function to load pixbuf properly scaled and with alpha channel removed
• Fixed HALdetect function, parsing only when modules available
• Fixed a bug when scaling fullscreen iPod thumbnail
• Fixed gpixpod.py to launch if passed to the python interpreter
• Fixed exception when displaying details of a new added photo
• Fixed details still displayed after deleted photo, now cleared
• Fixed details cleared when double-click a photo album
• Using webbrowser module for links
• iPod Color treated as iPod Photo: testing feedback needed
• Added menu entry to make a PayPal donation
• More tooltips in menu
• Debian/Ubuntu package
• Cross-platform fixes and win32 installation package
• Correct dependencies are python 2.4+ and gtk/pygtk 2.8+

Please upgrade to this version as soon as possible.

I have just released GPixPod 0.3 on SF with these new features:

• Now iPod Photo seems supported fine (probably iPod Color, too)
• All gdk-pixbuf image formats now supported for photo import. Thus in addition to JPEGs, now also PNGs, BMPs, GIFs, SVGs…
• Preferences dialog: automatic detection/opening, mountpoint, etc.
• Refined image conversion functions to keep ratio when scaling
• Added basic image conversion functions to rotate CCW and CW

After implemented proper iPod Nano support, I’m working on adding the same support for iPod Photo, too. Thanks to new informations that have been added on the iPodLinux.org wiki by other developers, too, probably it won’t take too long.

With the current 0.2.3 release the iPod Photo support is experimental: Photo Database is properly read and written, and small thumbnails are shown. Fullscreen photos on the iPod are still displayed as garbage.

Finally GPixPod 0.2.3 just released on SF gains proper support for the very popular iPod Nano. Tested successfully the creation of a new Photo Database from scratch and its next modification. It has not been tested yet the modification of an already existing Photo Database generated by iTunes, but hopefully also this operation should work straightforward. Please download it from SourceForge and try it!

GPixPod 0.2.2 has been just uploaded on SF with the addition of the requested Eject iPod feature. The program also checks for the proper disconnection of the iPod (when even the “Do not disconnect” message disappears from the iPod screen) suggesting to apply the required setuid permissions on the eject executable if needed.

A fast swap/not swap bytes optional argument to the RGB565 image conversion functions has been added for convenience, too.

I don’t know yet if GPixPod actually works with Photo and Color iPods. Please report bugs, comments and feature wishlists.

The only supported model is still only iPod video 5G. iPod Nanoes currently only recognize the database structure, with version 0.2.1.

Hoping to convert the highly experimental support to actual stable support soon.

I have published a small bug fix release on SF that solves proper displaying of generated photo albums on iPod Nanoes. But support is still not complete, thumbnails have problems.

A screenshot of the model autodetection feature added in the 0.2 release. Warning for an iPod Nano. In fact the iPod Nano support seems currently not working at all. Problems are being investigated.