http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1833 <pre>I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and I really miss Alexandria. It's my favorite book collection manager and the only one I've found that works with adlibris. Are you still planning to update the software? Best regards Chris _______________________________________________ Alexandria-list mailing list Alexandria-list-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list</pre> Alfa Omega 2012-05-14T18:07:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1832 <pre>Hey Cathal, Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu Precise (12.04), it's been dreadfully lonely without your incredible library management software to manage my collection. Is there any possibility you will update the build recipe at the Alexandria PPA for a Precise build target? Take care, </pre> Kip Warner 2012-05-09T00:05:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1830 <pre>(First of all excuse for my poor english) Hello, I am just new in the media library world. Some needs in my life given me at Alexandria. I ve been reading the mailing list archive and I consider to rewrite a list of features already requested and new features. I also know about project Palatina that have already some features requested for Alexandria. I don't checked the code (neither Alexandria or Palatina so I can't tell about features in the code structure, adn I am aslo not the better analyser -just amateur one-). So I list the features request and what I seen: 1- Add the possibility to have more than 1 book (palatina capable). Actually, if you want to add a duplicate ISDN, I think in future the GUI should ask you if you want to add a copy of the book. And add an option (a tag or someting) for the user to identify between the copies (imagine the user put fiscally a letter A for the first copy and a letter B for the second copy, so the user would set these options in Alexandria, so if he borrow the copy A, he know that copy B is/should be still somewhere in the library). I don't seen the code, but an ugly and fast way should be adding new file/database only for managing duplicates books. 2- Add the possibility to identify the origin of the book. Imagine that a friend of a the user borrow him a book, he whould insert that book in the database and let him know who borrowed it (borrow, gift, give, whatelse...). 3- Add the possibility of multiple users (reviews, reads, etc). I don't know about yours family, but in my house we are 6 at home. You can focus this feature in multiple ways. For example: Big familiy at home: you practicaly don't interested in which book is reading or have readed you brother, but it's possible you want to know the review of him about the book just reading is review instead of asking him (he is at this moment at work). Public Library: normally you don't need to read reviews of others (perhaps sometimes) but you want to know which reader have any pariculary book, from which time ago have it, or if they have more than one. Actually you can see a list of loaned books, but not the name. Public Libraris apps have noramlly a list of loaned books per users or per total. Implementation of this is more difficult. 4- View like icons better arrangment of images. Actually, if you set this view option, if the image is larger than other ones... you have an ugly des-arranged visualitation. It should be good to fit images with a predefined width (or something else) to prevent malformation of the columns. 5- Universal database storage like OpenLibrary. I think this is possible but I not sure if OpenLibrary is the perfect system. With OpenLibrary you can have duplicate books with duplicates images. I think it can be possible to do that with a semi-automatic insertion to Alexandria. If there are more than one possible ISDN with diferent results, you can show a preview window to the user with all of theme and let him to choose what data you want to use. 6- Auto-insertion of book without matches. Actually, if there is no matches with the ISDN or titles searchs, it stops. I think it should be good to add a button (or directly redirects users) for performing a manual insertion instead to lets user to close the windows, and open manual instertion option (one click is better than 3 or 4 clicks) 7- GIF implementation for book images. I only tried with JPG and GIF. JPG is working, GIF not. I don't know if Alexandria is PNG and SVG compatible for book images. 8- Auto-insertion of book retrieving external information with characters errors. In my language, we use áéíóú and another characters (UTF-8), so the system put symbols and other stuff like a diferent encoding charset. 9- Up-to-date home page. Actually the latest available stable version at homepage section is 0.6.7 and in the section download is the version 0.6.6 (like last stable) and in mailing list we can obtain 0.6.8 (but I don't know if it is considerad stable or not). _______________________________________________ Alexandria-list mailing list Alexandria-list-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list</pre> Add User 2012-03-18T11:26:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1828 <pre>Hello guys! We have a big home library about 3000 books. Does Alexandria have any limits on the number of books that can be added to collection? Best regards,      Svyatoslav. _______________________________________________ Alexandria-list mailing list Alexandria-list-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list</pre> Сидоров Святослав 2012-01-06T11:40:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1828 <pre>Hello guys! We have a big home library about 3000 books. Does Alexandria have any limits on the number of books that can be added to collection? Best regards,      Svyatoslav. _______________________________________________ Alexandria-list mailing list Alexandria-list-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list</pre> Сидоров Святослав 2012-01-06T11:40:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1828 <pre>Hello guys! We have a big home library about 3000 books. Does Alexandria have any limits on the number of books that can be added to collection? Best regards,      Svyatoslav. _______________________________________________ Alexandria-list mailing list Alexandria-list-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list</pre> Сидоров Святослав 2012-01-06T11:40:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1827 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Another very quick release, Alexandria 0.6.8 http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=205&amp;release_id=46374 This should now run on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) It's also installable from the Alexandria Team PPA https://launchpad.net/~alexandria-team/+archive/ppa A proper announcement should follow soon. Several providers are broken, but Amazon works. The "Acquire from Scanner" dialog maximises when scanning with a CueCat (regression). Also, Alexandria is very "crashy" at the moment, which I don't like! I feel like every click is going to break something. So, if you encounter any *reproduceable* crashes, please reply-all to this message and I'll try and tackle problems quickly. Cheers, - Cathal. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: GnuPT 2.6.2.1 by EQUIPMENTE.DE iEYEARECAAYFAk7C4rcACgkQfMAUnRdb+8rk1QCcCczKabclQZBi4utlwH31pAVk bDgAnjw1H3nIuwg8+nv2wKme8G14cVeX =btSt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </pre> Cathal Mc Ginley 2011-11-15T22:07:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1826 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Another change to the Amazon API broke support in Alexandria, so I made a quick bugfix release. Release nootes are here: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/news/2011-11-03--0.6.7-released.html Note: this will install on versions of Ubuntu *before* 11.10 - Cathal. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: GnuPT 2.6.2.1 by EQUIPMENTE.DE iEYEARECAAYFAk635/QACgkQfMAUnRdb+8o9qgCfbhPtnIIgAtntbMRlu3cu4C0N nMYAniwy7yMmCnwbRhhwvn85fdpBlbuL =mmBd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </pre> Cathal Mc Ginley 2011-11-07T14:15:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1825 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've put up a nicely-formatted version of this message on the Alexandria website: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/news/2011-11-07--ubuntu.html But I'll include the text version here for convenience (and the mailing-list archive). Alexandria has been removed from the Ubuntu package repositories for the new 11.10 (oneiric) release. This is because the alexandria package depends on old ruby-gnome2 packages which have been dropped from Ubuntu. The reasons behind this are a little complex, and took me a while to work out, so I shall go through them. * In the course of developing GTK+3, the GTK+ developers decided to tidy up [1] libraries of unrelated modules. So, for example, libgnome was refactored and classes like Gnome::Program were pulled out into Gtk::Application in the main libgtk library. Similarly, the functionality of libglade2 is now provided by Gtk::Builder. And use of libgconf2 is discouraged (without any simple drop-in replacement, as far as I can tell so far). * The Ruby/GNOME2 team, with limited resources, cannot keep supporting soon-to-be discontinued libraries. So, coming up to their recent 1.0.0 release, they marked [2] libgnome2-ruby, libgconf2-ruby and libglade2-ruby (and many others) as deprecated. This means [3] “considered obsolete but still available for use, though planned to be phased out”. * Debian dropped [4] all the deprecated packages from Debian Testing in July 2011, since they are “unmaintained upstream”. This also meant that any packages which depended upon them had to be dropped, including Alexandria. [5] * Ubuntu, which takes most of its software packages from Debian, followed suit in not including the deprecated Ruby/GNOME2 packages, and therefore also had to drop Alexandria in the 11.10 release. [6] Since the three deprecated packages Alexandria needs have been removed from the Ubuntu repositories, any attempt to simply install the latest Alexandria deb package will fail due to broken dependencies. Therefore, to get Alexandria up and running on Ubuntu again I must do some combination of these: * Re-write parts of Alexandria so it no longer requires those libraries. * Re-package some dependencies and make them available on the Alexandria Team PPA. This is the current plan. Where possible, I will use re-writing, which should lead to fewer maintenance worries in the future. Keep an eye on the mailing-list [7] for progress reports. How did I miss this? * I haven't been working on Alexandria for many months. * I don't use the latest Ubuntu. I use Trisquel GNU/Linux, which is based upon an older version of Ubuntu. * I'm not subscribed to any of the relevant Debian mailing-lists to which notifications were sent. * The Debian maintainers of Alexandria did not contact the Alexandria mailing-list or leave a bug report on the tracker on RubyForge. So I had no knowledge of the problem until #29415 [8], #29418 [9], and #29419 [10] were posted on the tracker a few days ago. - Cathal Mc Ginley [1] http://live.gnome.org/LibgnomeMustDie [2] http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/980605 [3] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deprecated [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ruby/2011/07/msg00049.html [5] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/alexandria.html [6] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot [7] http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/ [8] http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&amp;atid=865&amp;aid=29415&amp;group_id=205 [9] http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&amp;atid=863&amp;aid=29418&amp;group_id=205 [10] http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&amp;atid=863&amp;aid=29419&amp;group_id=205 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: GnuPT 2.6.2.1 by EQUIPMENTE.DE iEYEARECAAYFAk636nYACgkQfMAUnRdb+8qFTQCeNYRpzpofkbfzfAe+eCy3A+tL Hw0Anih/UebK3GeUFFUbYa/ludnH6I6Q =FhSX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Alexandria-list mailing list Alexandria-list&lt; at &gt;rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list</pre> Cathal Mc Ginley 2011-11-07T14:25:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1822 <pre>Hey folks, I don't use OS X myself, but someone I know of does and would benefit from Alexadria. Has anyone in the past attempted successfully to get Alexandria running under it? PS Please cc me as I don't believe I am on the list. </pre> Kip Warner 2011-10-19T00:05:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1821 <pre>Good Afternoon, I recently downloaded and installed Alexandria ver 0.6.6 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It has started crashing and just now I went to add a book by ISBN. Alexandra found it on the WorldCat however it loaded the book in a language other than english and without the blue cover. When I try to remove the blue cover and information by clicking on the icon, Alexandria crashes repeatedly. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Randy _______________________________________________ Alexandria-list mailing list Alexandria-list-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list</pre> Randy Santaga 2011-08-28T22:39:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1819 <pre>Good Day, while manually entering the Author's name Alexandria does not show the recently added name. It continues to show "Author". Has anyone come across this situation before? I am running version 0.6.5 of Alexandria under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Thanks, Randy _______________________________________________ Alexandria-list mailing list Alexandria-list-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list</pre> Randy Santaga 2011-08-23T20:08:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1818 <pre>Hello! Siciliano changed their site again and the image URLs have broken. I've attached a patch that fixes that. (: Igor Santos Web developer _______________________________________________ Alexandria-list mailing list Alexandria-list-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list</pre> Igor Santos 2011-05-21T16:59:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1814 <pre>alex'ers based on all my poking around (refer to Export Error thread) there does seem to be some sort of glitch in web_themes.rb where/when the WebTheme.new pixmaps_directory directory name is being established. i don't actually understand the use/purpose of this particular directory but the path being generated on my system is wrong ... I, [2011-05-17T11:37:42.199152 #16469] INFO -- &lt;Obj Alexandria::SortedLibrary&gt;: theme pixmaps_directory: /usr/share/alexandria/web-themes/list/usr/share/alexandria/web-themes/list/preview.jpg/pixmaps the statement that sets pixmaps_directory for a given theme is (from web_themes.rb) themes &lt;&lt; WebTheme.new(css_file, preview_file, File.join(path, file, "pixmaps")) not knowing for sure what is kept or expected to be in a themes pixmaps_directory the best corrective action i can envision is themes &lt;&lt; WebTheme.new(css_file, preview_file, File.join(path, "pixmaps")) which yields "/usr/share/alexandria/web-themes/list/pixmaps" instead of the erroneous "/usr/share/alexandria/web-themes/list/usr/share/alexandria/web-themes/list/preview.jpg/pixmaps" whether this will help kip warners export crash problem isn't clear, but it makes no difference here (that i've been able to observe). [note: i'm of the belief that the theme 'pixmaps_directory' is intended to be an additional subdir for a given 'theme'. that none of the supplied themes utilize a 'pixmaps' subdir explains why this bug hasn't been found 'til now.] anybody care to comment? aloha ras </pre> Robert A. Schmied 2011-05-17T22:12:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1801 <pre>Hey folks, I am trying to export one of my libraries as HTML Web Page (directory) using the Clean theme. I get the following error: "Export failed No such file or directory - /home/kip/.alexandria/My Library/-1191581792.cover" It looks like it is missing some data it needs? PS Please cc me, if you remember. I can't remember if I am subscribed or not anymore. </pre> Kip Warner 2011-05-06T22:02:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1797 <pre>Hi, exporting books in bibtex-format creates a unique label for each book to use as a referrer in Latex. The label is created based on authors forename - a little bit inconvenient to remember. Example: &lt; at &gt;BOOK{Thomas1, author = "Thomas Pfeiffer and Andreas Wenk", title = "PostgreSQL 8.4", publisher = "Galileo Press GmbH", year = 2009 } In my Latex-Code I have now to use {Thomas1} in my \cite-commands. I didn't find any possibility to change this behavior to create the label based on at least one of the authors lastnames. Does anyone have an idea to solve this item? Thanks in advance Tom </pre> tomnor-Mmb7MZpHnFY< at >public.gmane.org 2011-02-25T18:00:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1795 <pre>Hello! I've just made a fix that makes searching for brazilian books in the Siciliano site work again. I've edited my /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/book_providers/siciliano.rb... How can I submit the code for you to test, etc (dunno how alexandria development works)? I'm actually using it right now to add new books =D Best regards, Igor Santos Web developer _______________________________________________ Alexandria-list mailing list Alexandria-list-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list</pre> Igor Santos 2011-01-10T02:03:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1793 <pre>Hi Lennart, I don't think the GTK libraries are the problem. I have libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common libgtk2-ruby1.8 all installed. As I say, Alexandria worked previously with KDE 3.5 but refuses on KDE 4. George </pre> george parker 2010-12-29T16:52:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1791 <pre>I have used Alexandria for some time with no problems. I run Simply Mepis, a debian based distro and have recently upgraded to version 8.5 which has KDE 4. Alexandria installs (ver 0.6.1_1) in synaptic but will not run. If I run it from a terminal it gives a message: ruby1.8: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/gtk2.so: undefined symbol: gtk_file_system_error_quark I have installed the latest version which gives the same result with an additional message: W, [2010-12-28T12:44:46.702997 #10951] WARN -- [Cls Alexandria::BookProviders]: Can't load 'hpricot' and 'htmlentities', hence AdLibris, Barnes &amp; Noble, DeaStore, Proxis, Siciliano, Thalia and Worldcat book providers will not be available I'm not too bothered about that as I saw a reference to it on another post. Any ideas? George </pre> george parker 2010-12-28T17:48:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1781 <pre>Hey list. I'd like to request the current PPA have the Maverick series added. https://launchpad.net/~alexandria-team/+archive/ppa Right now we have up to Karmic. </pre> Kip Warner 2010-10-29T01:16:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria/1778 <pre>_______________________________________________ Alexandria-list mailing list Alexandria-list-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list</pre> Putr 2010-09-05T20:30:06 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.gnome.apps.alexandria