On 8/27/05, Greg Steffensen <greg.steffensen@...400...> wrote:

I'm releasing version 0.39 of the clip art browser. Naturally, this is an almost-ready snapshot of the next major release, 0.4. Installation works the same as with past releases, although I don't think Jon's very cool Makefile will work. The two big missing features that will be added for 0.4 are making the "Import Clip Art" gui (it requires threading, and pygtk threading always drives me nuts), and some kind of progress bar during the retrieval of large result sets.

For this version, a ton of code was revamped, and the result is a significantly more usable and more extensible product (I think). The interface, in particular, was violently redone.

http://sharelinux.org/?q=node/1

You'll have to index your clip art using the indexClipart.py script before using it. Also, for now, I wouldn't reccomend using the ocal_net module with it, simply for performance... once I have a progress dialog, that will be more doable. There's a ton of changes in here, most of which were inspired by the recent thread about the project on this mailing list (in particular, Nathan's xml category-hierarchy idea proved useful). Also, this version is significantly more independent of Inkscape. I'll provide more documentation soon, but check out the config file; you can now have it open up images in arbitrary programs that you specify, all cleanly integrated into the UI. Feedback, as always, is very welcome. I'll try to have 0.4 out by, oh say... Wednesday :).

Greg