Notes (week 14) – HTPC madness

No progress on CE this week. Last weekend I started to rebuild my HTPC. I figured since I’ve been using Windows to handle that task for many years, it’s time to see what Linux has to offer. The plan was to get everything up and running over the weekend. Obviously it was way too optimistic timeframe since I’ve been working with it whole week. Finally yesterday I finished the job… kinda. Due to my own stupidity, I managed to blow up the motherboard! So no HTPC for a while :( . I’ll write more about the HTPC endeavor in my blog.

Anyway, next week I’ll go back to the regular schedule and do more work with CE. I’m hoping to release 0.90 final next Friday. After it’s released I’ll write a proper roadmap for CE and also open help wiki. If anyone knows a good, easy to use (wysiwyg) wiki or help system, let me know. This server can only support PHP and MySQL.

Have a nice weekend everyone :)

6 Comments
1.
2301

Hi,
I know a good open-source wiki system, it’s called WikiWig: http://wikiwig.sourceforge.net/

2301

2.

OK, thanks. I’ll check it out.

3.
Andrew

Hi Marko,

Can you clarify your license please. It says:
“CubicExplorer is provided as FREEWARE for non-commercial use.”
What is the situation if I want to use it at work?

From the comparison on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software WikkaWiki looks quite nice and works with PHP and MySQL. http://demo.wikkawiki.org/SandBox

4.
EvilDave

Bug Report: CE 0.9b3
Vista Business 32-bit

The thumbnail preview for CE is generic and doesn’t show the application’s screenshot.
When you mouse over the taskbar button for an application in Vista Aero, it shows a thumbnail version of the app. CE 0.9b3 doesn’t do this. Instead it shows a generic icon instead.

Yeah, I know with such a major bug I am sure you’ll get right on that :) but I figured I’d document it nonetheless.

5.
EvilDave

Feature Request: Variable directory depth in tab titles

It would be nice if I could select how many directory levels to include in tab title (e.g, 1 (default), 2, etc.).
Or some string naming scheme (you know like The Godfather uses for MP3 tags, or the Firefox extension Date Picker/Calendar uses for the clock) that would allow me to see directory levels 1 & 3, for example.

My work uses a standardized directory structure:
Client IDApplication
Client IDSpecification
Client IDEmails
etc.

Which means I usually have 2 or 3 tabs open to different folders (client IDs) that have the title “Application” and I have no idea which tab is for which client unless I select them.
Seeing 2 directories would mean I’d have titles like “0051-033Application” and “0007-151Application”.
It may make tab titles fairly long, but you could always have a long tab title under the current scheme.

Alright I’ll stop procrastinating and get back to work.

6.

@Andrew
Sorry it took so long, your comment went to moderation queue for some reason.

I’ll should rewrite the license. Basically it means you can’t sell CE or directly profit from it without permission. You are free to use it anywhere you like. If there is some indirect profit from CE (more work = more money), it just means CE is working :)

Thanks for the wiki tip, I’ll check it out.

@EvilDave
- I’ve been meaning to fix that thumbnail problem. Added in todo list (#97).

- Good idea. Added in todo list (#98)

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