Lots of new features in GPixPod 0.6!
The new 0.6 major release of GPixPod is out, featuring:
- Bottle-neck code (image conversions functions, used every time a photo is added) converted to C for much more speed than before (bit-to-bit operations in Python even using the operator module are so sloooow)!
- Thumbnail files are rebuilt only when really needed: actually when you have deleted one or more photos. When you will only add photos, saving will be much faster (thumbnail parts will be appended, instead of re-written all from scratch!)
- You could almost safely kill the application (both CLI and GUI versions, however Ctrl-c works only with CLI): it will save at the current status!
- When you attempt to save hundreds/thousands of photos, you could need either to pause and resume the upload to the iPod, or to completely stop the operation saving at the current status. Now you could do this with the new behaviours of the buttons near the progress bar.
- New “View” menu to hide/show GUI sections, including thumbnails as previews in the treeview of the list of the photos.
- New “Photo Album” details notebook page.
- Rename album option now also in the “Edit” menu, besides double-click on an album: improves usability.
- New “Rescue” option tries to fix the Photo Database if inconsistent: use this if you end to see nothing more on your iPod Photos section.
- Fixed exceptions, when using sync file from CLI, and when adding photos and thumbnails cache directories are missing (deleted).
- Removed wrong filechooser options when saving images.
- Properly managing special empty database formatted by some versions of iTunes sometimes.
- Made all dialogs modal to avoid multiple instances.
- Some other gettext and GUI clean-ups (ugly borders removed, etc.)
To jkohen and other users who kindly reported bugs recently on SF: this “euphoric” release launchs now completed code, I will release a new maintenance 0.6.1 version shortly trying to fix all those bugs! Thanks for your advices and reports!
September 10th, 2006 at 00:14
Hi Flavio,
The .deb for Debian/Sid won’t intall. Gpixpod requires libc6 > 2.4 (Debian has 2.3.6) and libglib2.0 > 2.12 (Debian has 2.10.3).
:(
Cheers.
September 10th, 2006 at 02:54
Same problem here with Dapper.
gpixpod depends on libc6 (>= 2.4-1); however:
Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6-0ubuntu20.
gpixpod depends on libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0); however:
Version of libglib2.0-0 on system is 2.10.3-0ubuntu1.
September 10th, 2006 at 22:26
Hi Carlos, hi phlegm,
I have updated the gpixpod_0.6.0-1_i386.deb and the rpm packages, they should install cleanly now on both Debian Sid and Ubuntu Dapper Drake.
Please don’t use the ubuntu-specific .deb package unless you are using Edgy.
September 11th, 2006 at 00:07
Sorry, Flavio, still no go:
Selecting previously deselected package gpixpod.
(Reading database … 210511 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gpixpod (from gpixpod_0.6.0-1_i386.deb) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gpixpod:
gpixpod depends on python2.4-gtk2 (>= 2.8); however:
Package python2.4-gtk2 is not installed.
gpixpod depends on python2.4-glade2 (>= 2.8); however:
Package python2.4-glade2 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing gpixpod (–install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
I believe the right packages for debian are python-gtk2 and python-glade2. I’m not sure how the new python policy deals with different python versions.
Cheers,
Carlos
September 16th, 2006 at 05:23
The same with me,
I installed Python2.4, gtk2 and glade2.Installed the .deb with dpkg -i and got(sorry this is in Portuguese)
Descompactando substituto gpixpod …
dpkg: problemas de dependência impedem configuração de gpixpod:
gpixpod depende de python-support (>= 0.2); porém:
Versão de python-support no sistema é 0.1.1ubuntu1.
dpkg: erro processando gpixpod (–install):
problemas de dependência - deixando desconfigurado
Erros foram encontrados durante processamento de:
gpixpod
In the end GpixPod was installed and I can transfer photos to my Ipod. I just don’t now if its is working with total power, but I know its woring…
One question: It doesn’t scan and import folders? I must create a Photo Album open the folder where the photos are and copy then. If I have a subfolder I will need to create a new Photo Album and copy. Is that rigth?
Tks a lot a very good solution for linux.
Rodrigo.
September 18th, 2006 at 00:48
Default python version in both ubuntu/edgy and debian/sid is 2.4, so it should be safe to depend only on ‘python-gtk2 >= 2.8′ (instead of ‘python2.4-gtk2 >= 2.8′) and ‘python-glade2 >= 2.8′ (instead of ‘python2.4-glade2 >= 2.8′). Just to be sure you might add a ‘python >= 2.4′ dependency…
September 18th, 2006 at 04:40
I have created an ebuild for Gentoo users for this build of GPixPod. Goto https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121744 to download and report any issues you may have with it.
Thanks for a great app.
September 20th, 2006 at 16:12
The gpixpod_0.6.0-1_i386.deb does not install without broken dependencies. In order to install further software I had to remove it. Could you provide a static executable?
Thanks for making this application freely available,
Jarlath
September 25th, 2006 at 03:46
I’ve hacked the .deb so it depends on python-gtk2 and python-glade2 so it can be easily installed in Debian without breaking any dependencies. You can get it here: http://mother.lugmen.org.ar/~crux/cosas/gpixpod_0.6.0-2_i386.deb
September 28th, 2006 at 20:37
Hi all,
please download the new 0.6.1 release from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpixpod I have hopefully built the new packages with the correct dependencies.
Flavio
December 24th, 2006 at 04:27
I have an Ipod Nano (2gig) that definitely can down/upload photos! Why do I always get the message that “you have a ‘none’ which can not take photos and does not have a color screen, quit now” something like that. I do not have a ‘none’, it is an Ipod nano. I run Ubuntu and this is the most unfriendly piece of software I’ve ever tried to use. Can you help? Thanks!