ANNOUNCE: parole 0.6.0 released

Sean Davis smd.seandavis at gmail.com
Sat Jan 25 19:11:05 CET 2014


parole 0.6.0 is now available for download from
  
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/0.6/parole-0.6.0.tar.bz2
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/0.6/parole-0.6.0.tar.bz2.md5
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/0.6/parole-0.6.0.tar.bz2.sha1
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/0.6/parole-0.6.0.tar.bz2.sha256


What is parole?
===============

Parole is a modern simple media player based on the GStreamer framework
and written to fit well in the Xfce desktop.

Website: 
  http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/parole


Release notes for 0.6.0
=======================
Below are the changes since 0.5.4.  Version 0.6 is the latest stable
release, and from this point forward, stable release series will be
represented by even point numbers (0.6, 0.8, 1.0).

0.6.0
=======
- Completed port to GTK+3
  - Remove deprecated GTK+2 items
  - Use GtkOverlay for player controls
  - Use symbolic icons for menus, plugins
- Improved window maximization
  - Window dimensions are no longer saved when maximizing
  - Added "window-maximized" setting to xfconf to keep maximization
across sessions
- Rearranged and improved menubar
  - Renamed "Edit" menu to "Playback"
  - Renamed "Languages" menu item to "Audio Track"
  - Added Tools menu
  - Moved Plugins and Preferences to Tools menu
  - Added DVD menu (visible only when a DVD or DVD ISO is being played)
  - Added "Save Playlist" item to Media menu
  - Added "Contents" item to Help menu
  - Added "Report Bug" item to Help menu
- Improved playlist
  - Use symbolic icons in an inline toolbar
  - Removed redundant settings button
  - Added Move Up/Down buttons
  - Improved search
- Plugin updates
  - Added Previous/Next Track menu items to Tray plugin
  - Added Previous/Next Track menu items to Notification plugin
  - Added NEW MPRIS2 plugin
- Other improvements
  - Updated artwork (background image, icons)
  - Fixed GStreamer 1.0 support
  - Added ability to play DVD ISOs from the Open dialog
  - Plugins now correctly report when they fail to load
  - Plugin API documentation updates
- Bugs fixed
  - Fixed missing option to open DVD from iso (bug #10300)
  - Fixed allowing a playlist to be sorted and/or items to be moved (bug
#10066)
  - Fixed Remember playlist option in GUI not working (bug #10269)
  - Fixed Parole showing irritating edge (bug #10081)
  - Fixed untranslatable strings (bug #10418)
  - Fixed loading of playlists with relative paths (bug #10436)
  - Added realmedia video to supported video mimetypes (bug #10434)
  - Fixed IF/ELSE for plugin installation on multiple platforms (bugs
#10142, #10441)
  - Fixed building with enable-debug=full on some platforms (bug
#10525)
  - Fixed crash for m3u files with all absolute paths
  - Fixed "Remove Duplicates" functionality.


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