We’re about to release a new version of Vagalume and this one will be the first with gettext support. So if you want to help to see Vagalume in your language feel free to send me an e-mail, download the latest vagalume.pot file and send me the translation (you can also join the vagalume-devel mailing list).

Note that there are people already working on translations, so if you want to help please have a look at the translations that we already have and ask me before starting.

I’m also glad to announce that I’ll be talking about Vagalume in a couple of conferences:

• First, at LinuxTag 2008 in the Maemo track (Thursday 29 May) with other Maemo hackers and users.
• Second, at Guadec 2008 in Istanbul where I’ll give a lightning talk. It has been scheduled for 14:55 on 11 Jul 2008.

Hope to see you there! 🙂

Mario and me have just arrived from our trip to San Jose (California) for the Mobile Rules! awards ceremony. Unfortunately we had no luck this time and we didn’t get the award.

We had a great time nonetheless and I’d like to congratulate Nokia for having organized the event and all the other participants (namely the winners, specially the people from MyStrands who beat our Vagalume in the Multimedia category). The trip was great, we enjoyed it a lot and we met some cool people.

A thing I’m more sure about now is that Vagalume still needs lots of improvements. I’ll continue working on it very soon (but it’ll take me some days because I’m starting teaching this weekend in our Master of Free Software). So it is time to get back to work!

Oh, no, we didn’t get the award!

Greetings from California!

The Mobile Rules award ceremony will begin in a few hours. Me and Mario from the Vagalume team are already here in San Jose ready to talk about our program and tell everyone how cool Maemo and Gnome are for developing software for mobile devices.

Let’s cross our fingers and see what happens!

OMG ! Last Friday I published the new version of Vagalume and the same day the list of finalists of the Mobile Rules! competition was announced. Guess who is one of them …

Award ceremony in San Jose (California) next month.

Thanks Óscar for your words of support!

The people have spoken and the results have been overwhelming.

Vagalume 0.5.1 is out. More UI updates soon.

Thank you all for your comments and see you at FOSDEM 🙂

FOSDEM 2008 is around the corner. Of course I’ll be there along with other igalians so I hope to see you there 🙂

If you’re a Maemo user/hacker then you’ll probably be interested in this wiki page where we’re trying to coordinate a meeting.

By the way, some people have suggested me to use GTK themeable icons in Vagalume instead of the custom ones that come with v0.5. Here’s a couple of screenshots comparing both (click on the images to view them full size).

I’ve just created a survey so you can vote which one you prefer 🙂 If you don’t have a user at garage.maemo.org, just leave a comment in this post.

See you at FOSDEM !

The last version of Vagalume was released more than a month ago. And although it was dead for some weeks because I had many other things to do, here comes Vagalume 0.5, back from the dead!

As I said before, I’ve been busy lately so the list of changes is not as big as it might be, but thanks to the help of my colleagues Mario and Felipe we have some new things. The list of changes include:

• New buttons and other minor UI improvements
• New plugin for the Maemo status bar (IT OS2008 only) ^(*)
• Fixed a bug that made scrobbling fail under certain conditions
• A window to see the progress of downloads (and cancel them)
• A new setting to select the download directory

Here’s the new look of Vagalume under IT OS2008:

And for those interested, now we have a new vagalume-users mailing list.

(*) Mario has written a detailed post about the status bar plugin, including a screenshot. Check it out!

Go here to download Vagalume.

And that’s all. Enjoy!