Thanks for the confirmation handful ! I for one am more than ready to try something newer than good old Web or Gtk UIs, just as long as it's in Python, so I'll definitely join in trying to make Canola do things it wasn't supposed to :-)

Fpp: We had in mind that : (if becomes quite slow, let's use C) but believe it or not in the UI there's no need for C coding. The only component that needed C love was the scanner. Because we heard a lot about taking so much time to read etc etc, and scanning up to 8 gigas is too much for the python to do in record time. So the scanner is being rewritten in C but almost everything is pure python + edje code!

please send me and email, so we can send you a earlier build to test the plugin development as soon as we are ready for that (at least 1 week before the launch)

Thanks for the support, I'm really prepared to get a lot of stones thrown in us, critics coming etc but I also new that a few people would enjoy the efforts and recognize that we are not only working hard, but we want to make the Nokia tablets even greater, call the attention, show that we can be eye candy also.

=)

hi,
canola is using epsilon (an application from EFL) to generate thumbnails. these images will be saved under the standard ~/.thumbnails/normal path. the thumbnails will be reused if they are already generated or created on demand, if needed.

br

Man this looks amazingly good! much props to marcelo on this beautiful interface! Iphone/touch eat your heart out LOL

I have always loved canola from day one. my question is will it have a2dp support?
with the last version everytime i started my n800 or removed my memory card there used to be a process called canola-conf which used to take 90% of the cpu cycles. will that be fixed and i will canola let us play all sorts of video files mplayer can play??

Regarding canola-conf we are looking forward a new daemon aiming to decrease this cpu cycles that you talked about, but it's important to keep in mind that it's very hard to scan for medias very fast (this problem is not solved even on the desktop). So it will take a while to scan media but you can be sure that it'll be fast enough ;-) .

You'll also be able to play all your videos because the new Canola Media Engine (Atabake) uses mplayer to play movies, so video experience will increase a lot (playing videos locally and remotely also).

About a2dp, we'll support it as well. =D

Do we have ogg support including id3 tagging.

Sachin : Gustavo would be the perfect guy to answer, but this has been such a common topic that I can also answer :

1) Scanner ( the dreaded Canola conf ) is being rewritten to avoid all these problems. It will also support "specif" folders for each kind of media (photo / video / audio )

2) We didn't use mplayer in the first version, now we are going to use so yes we will suport a2dp.

3) Even using Mplayer you don't have to "leave" canola to watch the movie / audio.

4) we will do our maximum to debug faster the scanner to avoid any cpu problems. and to avoid this startup and removing card problems, we will try to make it more "manual"

What was the problem : if you remove the card we need to make sure canola will not try to access a non-existing media, so a "refresh" was needed. for people with maemo mapper and a lot of media this could be a drag.

The first release will help us identify those problems and we will fix them ASAP if they appear. But we are "old school" now with those problems =) hope we don't make them again

great guys. just cant wait for december.!!!!!

So to simplify and to answer again zerojay =)

What we really did was to listen to people's suggestion / critics and try to really solve them in the best way, not doing hacks on the old canola =)

Wait to see the podcast support (very criticized on the past version) =)