Announcing the release of Alexandria 0.6.4 * What is Alexandria? ===================== Alexandria is an application for managing a personal book library. Its main recommending feature is its clean, intuitive interface. Alexandria is able to retrieve book information and cover images from a wide variety of online data sources. It also features extensive import and export options, a loan interface, and smart libraries. Alexandria is written in Ruby using ruby-gnome2. * Where can I get it? ===================== - A source package can be downloaded at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=205 - An ad-hoc deb file (for Debian, Ubuntu & gNewSense) can be downloaded from there too - SVN can be accessed here: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/alexandria * What's New in 0.6.4? ====================== New Dependencies: - All web-based book providers now require Hpricot (a.k.a. libhpricot-ruby) for HTML and XML parsing - DeaStore also requires HTMLEntities (a.k.a. libhtmlentities-ruby) Changes: - Better GUI feedback when adding books by ISBN - Removed the obsolete Amazon (ECS) provider and replaced it with the new AWS-based Amazon provider - Fixed several book providers (DeaStore, Siciliano, AdLibris & WorldCat) - Temporarily removed some broken providers - Now supports non-CueCat "keyboard wedge" barcode scanners; no settings interface yet, but you can run gconf-editor /apps/alexandria and set barcode_scanner to KeyboardWedge - Better (though not perfect) handling of character encoding - Improved stability (fewer crashes) 0.6.4 contains a large number of bug fixes. These include fixes for: - [#19042] Icon view tooltips cause crashes on x86_64 [Work-around for an issue with ruby-gnome2 (pre 0.17.0)] - [#20080] Icon view tooltips cause crashes when publisher not defined - [#23908] Adding manually without ISBN is unstable - [#10929] Usability: advanced settings checkbox invisible without Ruby/ZOOM - [#20168] Cannot use non-western characters in Library names - [#16707] Cancelling image change in book properties not as expected - [#20201] Cannot export to ONIX or Tellico format - [#9010] Crashes when cancelling a library import Translations: - New Greek translation ( Michael Kotsarinis) - New Macedonian translation (Damjan Dimitrioski) - New Norwegian (BokmÃ¥l) translation (Jack Myrseh) - New Slovakian translation (Peter Kovac) - Improved Italian translation (Giacomo Margarito) - Improved Polish translation (Piotr DrÄ g) - Improved Portuguese (Brazil) and French translations (LÃgia Moreira) - Improved Swedish translation (Martin Karlsson) Where can I find out more? ========================== * Website: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/ * Screenshots/Screencast: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/screenshots.html * Mailing List: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/ * Bugs: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=205