From jcs at snowandsnow.us Mon Aug 1 16:54:42 2005 From: jcs at snowandsnow.us (jcs) Date: Mon Aug 1 16:49:00 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Barcode Reader Message-ID: <1122929682.3893.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Has anyone used a barcode reader other than a cuecat? I have a usb barcode reader that shows up as a TechScan Barcode reader v34a. It uses the usbhid driver. In attempting to see if it even works with linux, I've tried to look for out but I'm not sure where to look. There are no /dev/usb devices. Clifford -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/attachments/20050801/f7238c99/attachment.htm From kapheine at divineinvasion.net Mon Aug 1 20:56:36 2005 From: kapheine at divineinvasion.net (Zachary P. Landau) Date: Mon Aug 1 20:50:23 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Barcode Reader In-Reply-To: <1122929682.3893.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1122929682.3893.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <20050802005636.GA4905@localhost> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:54:42PM -0700, jcs wrote: > Has anyone used a barcode reader other than a cuecat? I have a usb > barcode reader that shows up as a TechScan Barcode reader v34a. It uses > the usbhid driver. > > In attempting to see if it even works with linux, I've tried to look for > out but I'm not sure where to look. There are no /dev/usb devices. > Clifford, I haven't tried it, but try checking the /dev/input/* devices. It may show up there. Also, check dmesg and/or syslog to see if the driver says what it attached to. -- Zachary P. Landau GPG: gpg --recv-key 0x24E5AD99 | http://kapheine.hypa.net/kapheine.asc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/attachments/20050801/3a9af924/attachment.bin From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Tue Aug 2 12:52:26 2005 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Tue Aug 2 12:46:36 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] news Message-ID: <1be7247c050802095215a67160@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, I have been working a bit today, especially on the GNOME version: - full Z39.50 support; - backward compatibility workaround for the Amazon developer token issue; - new icons; - smaller icons for the downloaded covers in the add book dialog; - in the main icon view, all icons are resized to have the same height and not the same width anymore; - some other small fixes. Please give it a try if you can. Note that you need the CVS version of Ruby/ZOOM in order to test the Z39.50 support (as the MARC decoding is not yet released). You can comment the "import 'marc'" line in z3950.rb if you want to test the new things but Z39.50. Liam, would it be possible to refresh the documentation with the new Z39.50 support? I will help you if you need. I will make a new release of Ruby/ZOOM at the end of the week, and we will enter the string freeze period, so that all translators can upgrade their work, in the meantime I go in vacation (exactly one week ;-)). Then I will release 0.6.0. Laurent From o.evans at gmail.com Tue Aug 2 17:49:13 2005 From: o.evans at gmail.com (Owain Evans) Date: Tue Aug 2 17:43:29 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] news In-Reply-To: <1be7247c050802095215a67160@mail.gmail.com> References: <1be7247c050802095215a67160@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <42EFEA59.3020102@gmail.com> Laurent Sansonetti wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been working a bit today, especially on the GNOME version: > > - full Z39.50 support; > - backward compatibility workaround for the Amazon developer token issue; > - new icons; > - smaller icons for the downloaded covers in the add book dialog; > - in the main icon view, all icons are resized to have the same > height and not the same width anymore; > - some other small fixes. > > Please give it a try if you can. Note that you need the CVS version > of Ruby/ZOOM in order to test the Z39.50 support (as the MARC decoding > is not yet released). You can comment the "import 'marc'" line in > z3950.rb if you want to test the new things but Z39.50. > > Liam, would it be possible to refresh the documentation with the new > Z39.50 support? I will help you if you need. > > I will make a new release of Ruby/ZOOM at the end of the week, and we > will enter the string freeze period, so that all translators can > upgrade their work, in the meantime I go in vacation (exactly one week > ;-)). Then I will release 0.6.0. > > Laurent > > _______________________________________________ > Alexandria-list mailing list > Alexandria-list@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list > Hi there, There is an error in z3950.rb or to files zoom.rb and marc.rb are missing from the CVS, or they need to be commented out - your choice! Owain From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Tue Aug 2 18:01:19 2005 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Tue Aug 2 17:55:29 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] news In-Reply-To: <42EFEA59.3020102@gmail.com> References: <1be7247c050802095215a67160@mail.gmail.com> <42EFEA59.3020102@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1be7247c050802150163ca154d@mail.gmail.com> Hi Owain, On 8/2/05, Owain Evans wrote: > Laurent Sansonetti wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have been working a bit today, especially on the GNOME version: > > > > - full Z39.50 support; > > - backward compatibility workaround for the Amazon developer token issue; > > - new icons; > > - smaller icons for the downloaded covers in the add book dialog; > > - in the main icon view, all icons are resized to have the same > > height and not the same width anymore; > > - some other small fixes. > > > > Please give it a try if you can. Note that you need the CVS version > > of Ruby/ZOOM in order to test the Z39.50 support (as the MARC decoding > > is not yet released). You can comment the "import 'marc'" line in > > z3950.rb if you want to test the new things but Z39.50. > > > > Liam, would it be possible to refresh the documentation with the new > > Z39.50 support? I will help you if you need. > > > > I will make a new release of Ruby/ZOOM at the end of the week, and we > > will enter the string freeze period, so that all translators can > > upgrade their work, in the meantime I go in vacation (exactly one week > > ;-)). Then I will release 0.6.0. > > > > Laurent > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Alexandria-list mailing list > > Alexandria-list@rubyforge.org > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list > > > Hi there, > > There is an error in z3950.rb or to files zoom.rb and marc.rb are > missing from the CVS, or they need to be commented out - your choice! > In fact, these files are provided by Ruby/ZOOM, that you can find here http://ruby-zoom.rubyforge.org/ marc.rb is not released yet, you must get the CVS version to get it. Laurent From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Tue Aug 2 19:49:19 2005 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Tue Aug 2 19:43:28 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria & Gconf In-Reply-To: <20050727142935.GS29038@muse.19inch.net> References: <42E6E4A7.6050005@paradise.net.nz> <20050727142935.GS29038@muse.19inch.net> Message-ID: <1be7247c0508021649149d6c1b@mail.gmail.com> Hi, I have done something I have been thinking about for a while. Now at install time (during install.rb), the GConf schema file will be parsed and a file named 'default_preferences.rb' will be generated. This file contains a hash with the name and the default values for all variables in the schema file. In the preferences backend, each time GConf returns nil for a given variable, we now inspect this hash and returns the default value (or nil, if not). This should fix all the issues related to the installation of the GConf schema, since we are now handling default values by ourself. And we are not the only GNOME project doing this... Laurent On 7/27/05, Dafydd Harries wrote: > Ar 27/07/2005 am 13:34, ysgrifennodd Adam Bogacki: > > Laurent, > > > > I noted that '/usr/share/gconf/schemas' did not have one for > > Alexandria so I copied one from > > /etc/gconf/schemas .. but it will still not change libraries in > > /home/adam although it will > > as root or as other users. I'm still stumped - how should one go about > > solving a > > possible interaction between source pkg and deb versions ? > > What do you mean by "possible interaction between source package and deb > versions"? > > The Debian package installs the schema in /usr/share/gconf/schemas. > > -- > Dafydd > _______________________________________________ > Alexandria-list mailing list > Alexandria-list@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list > From o.evans at gmail.com Fri Aug 5 16:25:00 2005 From: o.evans at gmail.com (Owain Evans) Date: Fri Aug 5 16:20:12 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Barcode Reader In-Reply-To: <20050802005636.GA4905@localhost> References: <1122929682.3893.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050802005636.GA4905@localhost> Message-ID: <42F3CB1C.5050407@gmail.com> Zachary P. Landau wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:54:42PM -0700, jcs wrote: > >>Has anyone used a barcode reader other than a cuecat? I have a usb >>barcode reader that shows up as a TechScan Barcode reader v34a. It uses >>the usbhid driver. >> >>In attempting to see if it even works with linux, I've tried to look for >>out but I'm not sure where to look. There are no /dev/usb devices. >> > > > Clifford, > > I haven't tried it, but try checking the /dev/input/* devices. It may > show up there. Also, check dmesg and/or syslog to see if the driver > says what it attached to. > > -- > Zachary P. Landau > GPG: gpg --recv-key 0x24E5AD99 | http://kapheine.hypa.net/kapheine.asc > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try using 'lsusb' also? Owain From carnegie at liamjdavison.info Sun Aug 7 12:09:10 2005 From: carnegie at liamjdavison.info (Liam Davison) Date: Sun Aug 7 12:03:21 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Searching Message-ID: <1123430950.9969.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi Laurent Working on documentation for the latest CVS version of Alexandria, and I noticed that new search field doesn't work if I only want to search for a specific author or title. 'Match everything' works, but not authors, titles, publishers, etc. In fact, if I search for books published by 'Orbit' - it gives me one result - a book published by Penguin! Can anyone repeat these errors? -- Liam Davison Developer of Carnegie http://www.liamjdavison.info/carnegie/ From liam at liamjdavison.info Sun Aug 7 12:13:00 2005 From: liam at liamjdavison.info (Liam Davison) Date: Sun Aug 7 12:07:01 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] New providers - British Library, etc Message-ID: <1123431180.9969.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi Laurent Another little bug report. Z39.50 sources don't have a website (well, they probably do but Alexandria doesn't know about them), it doesn't make sense to include them in the 'Display Online Information' menu. Nothing bad happens, but it's not good UI to have menu options which don't do anything! Liam -- liam@liamjdavison.info From carnegie at liamjdavison.info Sun Aug 7 13:56:40 2005 From: carnegie at liamjdavison.info (Liam Davison) Date: Sun Aug 7 13:50:43 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] And finally... Message-ID: <1123437400.9969.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi, me again! Adding new books by ISBN doesn't update the main window... Although the status bar does update. Last annoying bug report, I promise! Liam -- Liam Davison Developer of Carnegie http://www.liamjdavison.info/carnegie/ From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Fri Aug 12 16:25:03 2005 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Fri Aug 12 16:18:59 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Searching In-Reply-To: <1123430950.9969.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1123430950.9969.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1be7247c05081213252c5958cc@mail.gmail.com> Hi Liam, (Sorry for the late response, I was on vacation this week.) On 8/7/05, Liam Davison wrote: > Hi Laurent > > Working on documentation for the latest CVS version of Alexandria, and I > noticed that new search field doesn't work if I only want to search for > a specific author or title. 'Match everything' works, but not authors, > titles, publishers, etc. In fact, if I search for books published by > 'Orbit' - it gives me one result - a book published by Penguin! > > Can anyone repeat these errors? Yes I can, and I have fixed the bug. Thanks for your report! It would have been bad to ship this bug with the release... Laurent From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Fri Aug 12 16:52:57 2005 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Fri Aug 12 16:46:50 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] New providers - British Library, etc In-Reply-To: <1123431180.9969.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1123431180.9969.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1be7247c05081213521c01adfa@mail.gmail.com> Hi Liam, On 8/7/05, Liam Davison wrote: > Hi Laurent > > Another little bug report. Z39.50 sources don't have a website (well, > they probably do but Alexandria doesn't know about them), it doesn't > make sense to include them in the 'Display Online Information' menu. > Nothing bad happens, but it's not good UI to have menu options which > don't do anything! > You're absolutely right. However I do not think it is a good idea to remove the providers that do not provide a URL from the list, I believe it is better to disable the menu items, because sometimes a provider can provide a URL for a book but not for another (if the latest does not have an ISBN for example). I have fixed that on CVS. Thanks again for the reporting :-) Laurent From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Fri Aug 12 16:56:14 2005 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Fri Aug 12 16:50:04 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] And finally... In-Reply-To: <1123437400.9969.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1123437400.9969.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1be7247c05081213567c53b41@mail.gmail.com> Hi Liam, On 8/7/05, Liam Davison wrote: > Hi, me again! > > Adding new books by ISBN doesn't update the main window... Although the > status bar does update. > Mmh, I can not reproduce this bug... Can you provide more info about this, so I can try to reproduce it? > Last annoying bug report, I promise! > No problem, you can continue submitting bug reports, I prefer to see these bugs fixed before the release :-) Cheers Laurent From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Fri Aug 12 17:24:43 2005 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Fri Aug 12 17:18:35 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] missing manual screenshot Message-ID: <1be7247c0508121424390eeeda@mail.gmail.com> Hi Liam, I just checked your update on the manual, this is great, thank you! Just one thing, I believe you forgot to commit the Z39.50 Add Dialog screenshot on the repository (apparently figures/alexandria_add_z3950.png). Cheers Laurent PS: sorry if you receive this e-mail twice, I did something wrong with the webmail's interface. From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Fri Aug 12 17:35:48 2005 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Fri Aug 12 17:29:40 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] manual change request, link to aws registration page Message-ID: <1be7247c05081214357b64e68a@mail.gmail.com> Hi Liam, I think it would be great to include a link to the Amazon developer token registration page in the manual: https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/registration/index.html/103-1840146-8033458 (Probably in the warning zone of the Amazon preferences section?). What do you think? Laurent From lrz at gnome.org Tue Aug 16 17:14:52 2005 From: lrz at gnome.org (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Tue Aug 16 17:09:02 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] [ANN] Ruby/ZOOM 0.2.0 Message-ID: <1124226892.5669.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi, I am happy to announce the 0.2.0 release of Ruby/ZOOM. Ruby/ZOOM provides a Ruby binding to the Z39.50 Object-Orientation Model (ZOOM), an abstract object-oriented programming interface to a subset of the services specified by the Z39.50 standard, also known as the international standard ISO 23950. You can get more information from the home page: http://ruby-zoom.rubyforge.org This release fixes a bug in the ZOOM::ResultSet#[] method and introduces an experimental decoder for the MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging) format. Unfortunately the MARC decoder is not yet documented, but reading the marc.rb file should be helpful. Enjoy! Laurent From lrz at gnome.org Tue Aug 16 18:37:44 2005 From: lrz at gnome.org (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Tue Aug 16 18:31:54 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] amadeus provider is broken Message-ID: <1124231864.5646.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi Rene, Apparently the amadeus provider is broken (the unit test fails), can you have a quick look and fix the regression? Thanks! Laurent From lawa at gmx.at Tue Aug 9 03:05:23 2005 From: lawa at gmx.at (Gregor Hlawacek) Date: Sun Aug 21 14:42:19 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Crash report Message-ID: <1123571123.28948.2.camel@localhost> Hi! I installed alexandria but it doesn't work. I am running gentoo 2005.0. I tried to reinstall ruby ruby-amazon ruby-gettext and intltool annd alexandria again but this didn't help any suggestions Gregor ----------------------- Alexandria just crashed ----------------------- Timestamp: Tue Aug 09 09:02:49 CEST 2005 Message: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2) Backtrace: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:528:in `move' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:528:in `restore_preferences' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:81:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:40:in `new' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:40:in `main' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria.rb:60:in `main' /usr/bin/alexandria:10 Release: 0.5.1 Uname -a: Linux g4634m 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 #1 Wed Apr 6 18:08:59 CEST 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux -- Please report this dump to 'alexandria-list@rubyforge.org' with some additional information, such as the description of the crash and the steps to reproduce it (if it's possible). -- Dipl.-Ing. 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I was adding a book that wasn't in any of the sources, so i added it manualy. Then I added a picture that i found online of the cover. Finally I checked the sources to see if I could add some more, clicked on the "down" button, ended in the crashing above. Regards, Diana -- Sade, es-tu diabolique ou divin? From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Sun Aug 21 15:09:03 2005 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Sun Aug 21 15:02:39 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Crash report In-Reply-To: <1123571123.28948.2.camel@localhost> References: <1123571123.28948.2.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <1be7247c05082112091ad5108b@mail.gmail.com> Hi, (Sorry for the late response.) Please restart GConf and try again. A new version will be released soon with a fix for this GConf issue. Laurent On 8/9/05, Gregor Hlawacek wrote: > Hi! > > I installed alexandria but it doesn't work. I am running gentoo 2005.0. > I tried to reinstall ruby ruby-amazon ruby-gettext and intltool annd > alexandria again but this didn't help > > any suggestions > > Gregor > > ----------------------- > Alexandria just crashed > ----------------------- > Timestamp: Tue Aug 09 09:02:49 CEST 2005 > Message: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2) > Backtrace: > /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:528:in `move' > /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:528:in > `restore_preferences' > /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:81:in `initialize' > /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:40:in `new' > /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:40:in `main' > /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria.rb:60:in `main' > /usr/bin/alexandria:10 > Release: 0.5.1 > > Uname -a: Linux g4634m 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 #1 Wed Apr 6 18:08:59 CEST 2005 > i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > -- > Please report this dump to 'alexandria-list@rubyforge.org' with some > additional > information, such as the description of the crash and the steps to > reproduce it > (if it's possible). > -- > Dipl.-Ing. Gregor Hlawacek -- http://www.unileoben.ac.at/~hlawacek > 8700 Leoben, Austria > (o_ (o_ (o<)< (o< -! > //\ //\ //\ //\ > V_/_ [ ]/_ V_/_ V_/_ > penguin eating fish > travelling being noisy > GPG ID: FBCDF36E > GPG Finger Print: 1AA0 DC5C 186F 6144 01F0 8FB2 7ABD D7FB FBCD F36E > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBC+FWzer3X+/vN824RAj7EAJ4gxkIVDT7/sGkJyxN4lb65EdBjywCcD3LV > t4g3YKpFjopoSkSAT6LmyM4= > =pfMj > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Alexandria-list mailing list > Alexandria-list@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list > > > From lrz at gnome.org Sun Aug 21 16:18:59 2005 From: lrz at gnome.org (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Sun Aug 21 16:12:38 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Dump: can't dup NilClass In-Reply-To: <20050821145120.drpic1npwxs000wk@www.sadevil.org> References: <20050821145120.drpic1npwxs000wk@www.sadevil.org> Message-ID: <1124655539.5633.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi, (Sorry for the late response.) On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 14:51 +0200, Diana Romero wrote: > --------------------- > Alexandria just crashed > ----------------------- > Timestamp: Sun Aug 21 16:46:45 CEST 2005 > Message: can't dup NilClass > Backtrace: > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/preferences_dialog.rb:133:in `dup' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/preferences_dialog.rb:133:in `on_provider_down' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/libglade2.rb:44:in `connect' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/libglade2.rb:44:in `call' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:41:in `main' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria.rb:60:in `main' > /usr/bin/alexandria:10 > Release: 0.5.1 > > Uname -a: Linux artemis 2.6.12.3 #1 Wed Aug 3 21:14:28 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux > -- > Please report this dump to 'alexandria-list@rubyforge.org' with some additional > information, such as the description of the crash and the steps to reproduce it > (if it's possible). > > I was adding a book that wasn't in any of the sources, so i added it manualy. > Then I added a picture that i found online of the cover. Finally I checked the > sources to see if I could add some more, clicked on the "down" button, ended in > the crashing above. > As I am reading the exception I suspect you checked in an unstable version of the sources (it has been unstable for a couple of days). Please check it again, and tell me if the problem persists. Thanks Laurent From bob.paddock at gmail.com Sun Aug 21 17:15:07 2005 From: bob.paddock at gmail.com (Bob Paddock) Date: Sun Aug 21 17:25:35 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Crash report In-Reply-To: <1123571123.28948.2.camel@localhost> References: <1123571123.28948.2.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <200508211715.07770.bob.paddock@gmail.com> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 03:05 am, Gregor Hlawacek wrote: > I installed alexandria but it doesn't work. I am running gentoo 2005.0. > I tried to reinstall ruby ruby-amazon ruby-gettext and intltool annd > alexandria again but this didn't help I had a lot of trouble getting Alexandria up and running under Gentoo as well. Finally tracked it down to this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88509 Remove RUBY16 from the ebuild. Don't know if it will help you out or not, but it got Alexandria up and running on my Gentoo system. -- ? ? ? http://www.softwaresafety.net/ ?http://www.unusualresearch.com/ http://www.bpaddock.com/ From berkerf at yahoo.com Mon Aug 22 08:17:30 2005 From: berkerf at yahoo.com (Berker FIÇICILAR) Date: Mon Aug 22 08:24:28 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Error in run of alexandria Message-ID: <20050822121730.217.qmail@web50204.mail.yahoo.com> berker@matrix:~$ alexandria (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?NSUFF?C?ENT_MEMORY' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?NVAL?D' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?CON' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?MAGE' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?NTERNAL_FRAME' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?NVAL?D' - skipped (eval):1: warning: rb_define_const: invalide name `MD?' for constant (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?NVAL?D' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?CON?F?ED' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?NDETERM?NATE' - skipped /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?NVAL?D' - skippe d /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?NDENT' - skipped /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?NV?S?BLE' - skip ped /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?NVAL?D' - skippe d /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?TAL?C' - skipped /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux/gtk22.so: warning: Invalid constant name '?NVAL?D_T ?ME' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?CON' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?RON_CROSS' - skipped /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?GNORE' - skipped /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?NFER?OR' - skipp ed /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?CON?F?ED' - skip ped (eval):18: warning: Invalid constant name '?NVERT' - skipped (eval):18: warning: Invalid constant name '?NCLUDE_?NFER?ORS' - skipped /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?N' - skipped (eval):41: warning: Invalid constant name '?NSENS?T?VE' - skipped (eval):5: warning: Invalid constant name '?NERT' - skipped (eval):3: warning: Invalid constant name '?NCHES' - skipped (eval):3: warning: Invalid constant name '?MMED?ATE' - skipped (eval):3: warning: Invalid constant name '?N' - skipped (eval):3: warning: Invalid constant name '?NSENS?T?VE' - skipped /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: rb_define_const: invalide name `UR?' for constant /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?NVAL?D' - skippe d (eval):33: warning: Invalid constant name '?MAGE' - skipped (eval):33: warning: Invalid constant name '?CON_SET' - skipped (eval):33: warning: Invalid constant name '?CON_NAME' - skipped /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?NFO' - skipped (eval):29: warning: Invalid constant name '?N_DESTRUCT?ON' - skipped (eval):4: warning: Invalid constant name '?NVAL?D' - skipped (eval):4: warning: Invalid constant name '?NCLUDE' - skipped (eval):4: warning: Invalid constant name '?NSENS?T?VE' - skipped (eval):4: warning: Invalid constant name '?M_MODULE_PATH' - skipped (eval):4: warning: Invalid constant name '?M_MODULE_F?LE' - skipped (eval):24: warning: Invalid constant name '?F_VAL?D' - skipped /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?CONS' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?TERS_PERS?ST' - skipped (eval):39: warning: Invalid constant name '?NTO_OR_BEFORE' - skipped (eval):39: warning: Invalid constant name '?NTO_OR_AFTER' - skipped /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?TEM' - skipped /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?TEM_CONF?GURABLE ' - skipped /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid constant name '?NCLUDE' - skippe d (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?F_RUNN?NG' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?MMED?ATELY' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?DLE' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?S_CONNECTED' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?NTERNAL' - skipped (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?CONS' - skipped ----------------------- Alexandria just crashed ----------------------- Timestamp: Pzt A?u 22 15:16:43 EEST 2005 Message: uninitialized constant Alexandria::UI::Icons::ALEXANDRIA_SMALL Backtrace: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:616:in `initialize_ui' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:79:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:40:in `new' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:40:in `main' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria.rb:60:in `main' /usr/bin/alexandria:10 Release: 0.5.1 Uname -a: Linux matrix 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp #1 SMP Mon May 30 20:47:11 UTC 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- Please report this dump to 'alexandria-list@rubyforge.org' with some additional information, such as the description of the crash and the steps to reproduce it (if it's possible). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Mon Aug 22 15:51:10 2005 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Mon Aug 22 15:44:42 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Fwd: next release wednesday In-Reply-To: <1be7247c050822124775f42aea@mail.gmail.com> References: <1be7247c050822124775f42aea@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1be7247c05082212516a7f781d@mail.gmail.com> Just FYI... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laurent Sansonetti Date: Aug 22, 2005 9:47 PM Subject: next release wednesday To: alexandria-i18n-list@rubyforge.org Hi all, I will release 0.6.0 wednesday 24, unless something bad appears. Do not worry if you can not complete your translation at this time, I will make another release after with the rest of all translations. Laurent From iglitia at gmail.com Tue Aug 23 06:57:20 2005 From: iglitia at gmail.com (Ioana Glitia) Date: Tue Aug 23 06:50:49 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] error while launching application Message-ID: When I try running alexandria, I get this error /usr/bin/alexandria:6:in `require': No such file to load -- gettext (LoadError) from /usr/bin/alexandria:6 How can I fix it? I am running SuSE 9.2. From tao at acc.umu.se Tue Aug 23 15:45:24 2005 From: tao at acc.umu.se (David Weinehall) Date: Tue Aug 23 15:38:58 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] [wishlist] Please remove New from toolbar Message-ID: <20050823194524.GF16852@khan.acc.umu.se> The New button, that creates new libraries, feels a bit unnecessary to have in the toolbar, since creating a new library is something you do very seldom. It's causing a bit of annoyance, since I usually mentally associate "New" -> add New book. Could you consider removing it, and just keep the menu entry? Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/ From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Wed Aug 24 10:42:09 2005 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Wed Aug 24 10:35:38 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] error while launching application In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1be7247c050824074272d19d83@mail.gmail.com> Hi, On 8/23/05, Ioana Glitia wrote: > When I try running alexandria, I get this error > /usr/bin/alexandria:6:in `require': No such file to load -- gettext (LoadError) > from /usr/bin/alexandria:6 > > How can I fix it? > Apparently you are missing the Ruby-GetText library. This is a requirement, as specified in the README (you can find there a URL to the package). Cheers Laurent From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Wed Aug 24 10:42:51 2005 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Wed Aug 24 10:36:22 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Error in run of alexandria In-Reply-To: <1be7247c05082407406e391a64@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050822121730.217.qmail@web50204.mail.yahoo.com> <1be7247c05082407406e391a64@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1be7247c05082407423e0e550f@mail.gmail.com> (Forgot to reply on the list...) ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Laurent Sansonetti Date: Aug 24, 2005 4:40 PMSubject: Re: [Alexandria-list] Error in run of alexandriaTo: Berker FI?ICILAR Cc: ruby-gnome2-devel-en Hi, On 8/22/05, Berker FI?ICILAR wrote:> berker@matrix:~$ alexandria> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name> '?NSUFF?C?ENT_MEMORY' - skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?NVAL?D' -> skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?CON' -> skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?MAGE' -> skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name> '?NTERNAL_FRAME' - skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?NVAL?D' -> skipped> (eval):1: warning: rb_define_const: invalide name> `MD?' for constant> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?NVAL?D' -> skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?CON?F?ED' -> skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name> '?NDETERM?NATE' - skipped> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?NVAL?D' - skippe d> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?NDENT' - skipped> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?NV?S?BLE' - skip ped> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?NVAL?D' - skippe d> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?TAL?C' - skipped> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux/gtk22.so: warning:> Invalid constant name '?NVAL?D_T ?ME' - skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?CON' -> skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?RON_CROSS'> - skipped> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?GNORE' - skipped> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?NFER?OR' - skipp ed> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?CON?F?ED' - skip ped> (eval):18: warning: Invalid constant name '?NVERT' -> skipped> (eval):18: warning: Invalid constant name> '?NCLUDE_?NFER?ORS' - skipped> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?N' - skipped> (eval):41: warning: Invalid constant name> '?NSENS?T?VE' - skipped> (eval):5: warning: Invalid constant name '?NERT' -> skipped> (eval):3: warning: Invalid constant name '?NCHES' -> skipped> (eval):3: warning: Invalid constant name '?MMED?ATE' -> skipped> (eval):3: warning: Invalid constant name '?N' -> skipped> (eval):3: warning: Invalid constant name '?NSENS?T?VE'> - skipped> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning:> rb_define_const: invalide name `UR?' for constant> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?NVAL?D' - skippe d> (eval):33: warning: Invalid constant name '?MAGE' -> skipped> (eval):33: warning: Invalid constant name '?CON_SET' -> skipped> (eval):33: warning: Invalid constant name '?CON_NAME'> - skipped> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?NFO' - skipped> (eval):29: warning: Invalid constant name> '?N_DESTRUCT?ON' - skipped> (eval):4: warning: Invalid constant name '?NVAL?D' -> skipped> (eval):4: warning: Invalid constant name '?NCLUDE' -> skipped> (eval):4: warning: Invalid constant name '?NSENS?T?VE'> - skipped> (eval):4: warning: Invalid constant name> '?M_MODULE_PATH' - skipped> (eval):4: warning: Invalid constant name> '?M_MODULE_F?LE' - skipped> (eval):24: warning: Invalid constant name '?F_VAL?D' -> skipped> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?CONS' - skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name> '?TERS_PERS?ST' - skipped> (eval):39: warning: Invalid constant name> '?NTO_OR_BEFORE' - skipped> (eval):39: warning: Invalid constant name> '?NTO_OR_AFTER' - skipped> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?TEM' - skipped> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?TEM_CONF?GURABLE ' - skipped> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:44: warning: Invalid> constant name '?NCLUDE' - skippe d> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?F_RUNN?NG'> - skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?MMED?ATELY'> - skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?DLE' -> skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name> '?S_CONNECTED' - skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?NTERNAL' -> skipped> (eval):1: warning: Invalid constant name '?CONS' -> skipped> -----------------------> Alexandria just crashed> -----------------------> Timestamp: Pzt A?u 22 15:16:43 EEST 2005> Message: uninitialized constant> Alexandria::UI::Icons::ALEXANDRIA_SMALL> Backtrace:> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:616:in> `initialize_ui'> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:79:in> `initialize'> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:40:in `new'> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:40:in `main'> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria.rb:60:in `main'> /usr/bin/alexandria:10> Release: 0.5.1>> Uname -a: Linux matrix 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp #1 SMP> Mon May 30 20:47:11 UTC 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux> --> Please report this dump to> 'alexandria-list@rubyforge.org' with some additional> information, such as the description of the crash and> the steps to reproduce it> (if it's possible).> This looks like a serious problem, apparently not related toAlexandria. Probably either a Ruby-GNOME2 or a Ruby problem... What is your version of Ruby-GNOME2? CC'ing this e-mail to the Ruby-GNOME2 mailing list. Any thoughts there folks? Laurent From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Wed Aug 24 10:46:34 2005 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Wed Aug 24 10:40:05 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] [wishlist] Please remove New from toolbar In-Reply-To: <20050823194524.GF16852@khan.acc.umu.se> References: <20050823194524.GF16852@khan.acc.umu.se> Message-ID: <1be7247c0508240746418ed80d@mail.gmail.com> Hi, On 8/23/05, David Weinehall wrote: > The New button, that creates new libraries, feels a bit unnecessary to > have in the toolbar, since creating a new library is something you do > very seldom. It's causing a bit of annoyance, since I usually > mentally associate "New" -> add New book. > > Could you consider removing it, and just keep the menu entry? > I understand your opinion... but I believe this new button should not be deleted. I believe some people are creating a lot of libraries, some do not (using 'My Library' to store everything). Perhaps a solution would be to use another icon for that button. A little poll, would you prefer to see this button removed from the toolbar? Any other suggestion? Laurent From bel8 at lilik.it Wed Aug 24 10:59:42 2005 From: bel8 at lilik.it (Claudio Belotti) Date: Wed Aug 24 10:54:02 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] [wishlist] Please remove New from toolbar In-Reply-To: <1be7247c0508240746418ed80d@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050823194524.GF16852@khan.acc.umu.se> <1be7247c0508240746418ed80d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20050824145942.GA8802@windmill.ifac.cnr.it> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Laurent Sansonetti wrote: > On 8/23/05, David Weinehall wrote: [..] > > Could you consider removing it, and just keep the menu entry? [...] > A little poll, would you prefer to see this button removed from the > toolbar? Any other suggestion? well I don't use it, so I agree with David to leave it in the menu. Is it a huge work to add customize toolbar functionality? Claudio From lrz at gnome.org Wed Aug 24 17:14:50 2005 From: lrz at gnome.org (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Wed Aug 24 17:08:24 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] [ANN] Alexandria 0.6.0 Message-ID: <1124918091.5619.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi, Alexandria 0.6.0 has just been released. Alexandria is a GNOME application to help you manage your book collection. You can get more information (screenshots, features, download links, packages...) on its web site: http://alexandria.rubyforge.org The two major points of this release are full Z39.50 support and a complete Docbook manual (with integration to the GNOME help system). A native MacOS X version (based on Cocoa) is currently being developed and the sources are available in this tarball, but there is no official release of this version yet because the code is still very alpha. All details about this release are following. Enjoy! New features: * Z39.50 support, with the possibility to manage your own sources ; * New book information providers: Internet Bookshop Italia, US Library of Congress and British Library ; * Complete manual (in English only), available either from the GNOME help application and Alexandria itself (via Help buttons) ; * Autocompletion is available in all fields of the Add Manually Book and Book Properties dialogs ; * Add a heart emblem to covers of books that have a 5 rating ; * Support for American UPC barcodes ; * Display covers in the search results of the Add Book dialog ; * Added a 'Match everything' filtering option ; * New icons ; * More ONIX compliance. Bugs fixed: * Loading the model is now a bit faster ; * Fixed a Proxis bug that was returning all editions of a book from an ISBN search ; * Labels in alert dialogs are now selectable ; * Improved the wording of the status bar text ; * Ignore CVS directories when looking for themes ; * Ignore whitespace characters when extracting numbers for ISBN/EAN/... ; * In the HTLM export, create the directory if it does not exist yet ; * In the ONIX export, do not write ProductWebsite elements for providers that return nil URLs ; * Handle low-case 'x' when validating ISBN/EAN/... ; * In the ISBN-list text file import, iterate on the progress bar when downloading covers ; * In the ISBN-list text file import, start importing if there is at least one valid ISBN in the file ; * Added a backward compatibility hack to upgrade the old developer token to a new valid one ; * Resize all icons in the icon view to have the same height (and not the same width as before) ; * Handle GConf default values by ourself when the GConf client returns nil values, this should fix all issues related to the installation of GConf schemas ; * Disable the 'View Online Information' actions if the according providers do not provide a URL for the selected book. Added translations: * Jiri Pejchal (cs) ; * Ligia Moreira (pt) ; * Lucas Rocha (pt_BR). Updated translations: * David Weinehall (sv) ; * Joachim Breitner (de) ; * Laurent Sansonetti (fr) ; * Masao Mutoh (ja) ; * Miguel ?ngel Garc?a (es) ; * Mirko Maischberger (it). Laurent From carnegie at liamjdavison.info Thu Aug 25 03:02:26 2005 From: carnegie at liamjdavison.info (Liam Davison) Date: Thu Aug 25 02:55:54 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] [wishlist] Please remove New from toolbar Message-ID: <1124953346.8028.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Laurent Sansonetti wrote: > On 8/23/05, David Weinehall wrote: [..] > > Could you consider removing it, and just keep the menu entry? [...] > A little poll, would you prefer to see this button removed from the > toolbar? Any other suggestion? Well, it's not something I use very often, but I don't think it should go. I'd rather have a more helpful icon, one which looks a bit like a library icon. Liam -- Liam Davison Developer of Carnegie http://www.liamjdavison.info/carnegie/ From bel8 at lilik.it Thu Aug 25 07:33:16 2005 From: bel8 at lilik.it (Claudio Belotti) Date: Thu Aug 25 07:27:36 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] exporting to bibtex Message-ID: <20050825113316.GC11365@windmill.ifac.cnr.it> Hi Laurent, hi all, congratulations for the new alexandria release! As I want alexandria to export to bibtex format, I added an "export_as_bibtex" to export_library.rb, this is just an alpha version I wonder if you are interested in adding it to alexandria. What it does: - export to a .bib file each book is a @BOOK entry eg. @BOOK{citation_key, author = "The Author", title = "The Title", publisher = "The Publisher", year = 2005 } 1 - for the moment I used ISBN as a citation_key, this as to be changed (should be unique but also easy to remind) 2 - latex-escaping has to be implementented 3 - year is a mandatory entry in latex book, but there isn't such a field in alexandria books Any suggenstion on issues 1,2,3? ciao Claudio From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Thu Aug 25 09:25:02 2005 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Thu Aug 25 09:18:29 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] exporting to bibtex In-Reply-To: <20050825113316.GC11365@windmill.ifac.cnr.it> References: <20050825113316.GC11365@windmill.ifac.cnr.it> Message-ID: <1be7247c05082506257694c356@mail.gmail.com> Hi Claudio, On 8/25/05, Claudio Belotti wrote: > Hi Laurent, hi all, > congratulations for the new alexandria release! > Congratulations to everybody that have contributed to that version! > As I want alexandria to export to bibtex format, I added an "export_as_bibtex" to export_library.rb, this is just an alpha version I wonder if you are interested in adding it to alexandria. > > What it does: > - export to a .bib file each book is a @BOOK entry > Sounds good!! I wanted to implement this, but you were faster than me :-) > eg. > @BOOK{citation_key, > author = "The Author", > title = "The Title", > publisher = "The Publisher", > year = 2005 } > > 1 - for the moment I used ISBN as a citation_key, this as to be changed (should be unique but also easy to remind) Mmh, maybe you could generate something intelligent from the title and authors. Also, some books do not have an ISBN. If I have correctly understood the citation key is often the name of the authors plus the publication date, for example 'Dick95'. Since we do not support publication dates ATM, you can still generate something unique like 'Dick1', 'Dick2'... > 2 - latex-escaping has to be implementented Should not be hard :) > 3 - year is a mandatory entry in latex book, but there isn't such a field in alexandria books Yeah, we do not store the publication date for the moment... Apparently you can put text in this field, can you put something like 'n/a' for the moment? We can support publication dates in the next release, if this is really necessary. I tried to avoid that to keep a very simple data model for the user, but if this is mandatory, we do not have the choice. Thanks for the work Laurent From bel8 at lilik.it Thu Aug 25 10:13:53 2005 From: bel8 at lilik.it (Claudio Belotti) Date: Thu Aug 25 10:08:09 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] exporting to bibtex In-Reply-To: <1be7247c05082506257694c356@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050825113316.GC11365@windmill.ifac.cnr.it> <1be7247c05082506257694c356@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20050825141353.GA18414@windmill.ifac.cnr.it> Hi Laurent, On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Laurent Sansonetti wrote: > > eg. > > @BOOK{citation_key, > > author = "The Author", > > title = "The Title", > > publisher = "The Publisher", > > year = 2005 } > > > > 1 - for the moment I used ISBN as a citation_key, this as to be changed (should be unique but also easy to remind) > > Mmh, maybe you could generate something intelligent from the title and > authors. Also, some books do not have an ISBN. > > If I have correctly understood the citation key is often the name of > the authors plus the publication date, for example 'Dick95'. Since we > do not support publication dates ATM, you can still generate something > unique like 'Dick1', 'Dick2'... Citation key is just a reminder for the bibliographic entry, easy enough to recall when you are citing it in your latex doc. I thought about a combination of Auth+Title but taking significative words from titles (not using articles for example) is not so easy and can vary from language to language. I think 'Dick1'... is a good idea. > > 3 - year is a mandatory entry in latex book, but there isn't such a field in alexandria books > > Yeah, we do not store the publication date for the moment... > Apparently you can put text in this field, can you put something like > 'n/a' for the moment? > > We can support publication dates in the next release, if this is > really necessary. I tried to avoid that to keep a very simple data > model for the user, but if this is mandatory, we do not have the > choice. BibTeX manual define year as 'required' for a @BOOK, I noticed 'n/a' it's ok, an empty year gives a warning when you compile the file with bibtex. But in general the year of publication is really important when you add a bibliography to a document. > > 2 - latex-escaping has to be implementented > > Should not be hard :) yes, of course, as soon as I have implemented this I will "cvs commit" ciao Claudio From carnegie at liamjdavison.info Thu Aug 25 17:29:00 2005 From: carnegie at liamjdavison.info (Liam Davison) Date: Thu Aug 25 17:22:33 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Publication Dates Message-ID: <1125005341.8058.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hey I have started to implement publication dates for Carnegie - only fetching dates from Amazon so far, and, in my code, there's quite a lot of converting from one date format to the next, but it seems to work. I've also got a problem pre-epoch dates (before 1st Jan 1970), but, for my purposes, that's OK because pre 1970 I don't think books had ISBNs. If you are interested, check out the code at the link below. I think publication dates would be good for Alexandria too. -- Liam Davison Developer of Carnegie http://www.liamjdavison.info/carnegie/ From kfoss at adelphia.net Fri Aug 26 09:31:55 2005 From: kfoss at adelphia.net (Kevin A. Foss) Date: Fri Aug 26 09:25:29 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Publication Dates In-Reply-To: <1125005341.8058.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1125005341.8058.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1125063115.27232.7.camel@kfoss> On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 22:29 +0100, Liam Davison wrote: > I've also got a problem pre-epoch dates (before 1st Jan 1970), but, for > my purposes, that's OK because pre 1970 I don't think books had ISBNs. If I remember correctly, the current ISBN system was adopted in 1968. And books throughout the 60s often were coded with (shorter) pre-ISBN formats before the standard was finalized, it was called something like SBN, but I'd have to check some books when I get home -- I doubt that any electronic catalogs are using those numbers however. IMO, As long as private presses exist, tying anything exclusively to the existence of ISBNs is a prescription for problems down the road. Even Amazon keeps stub entries for books which have been published without an ISBN (and which they probably can't even get for you.) -Kevin -- Kevin A. Foss From marrakis at gmail.com Sat Aug 27 17:04:49 2005 From: marrakis at gmail.com (Arrakis Muadib) Date: Sat Aug 27 16:58:08 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Problem with alexandria and libgettext-ruby Message-ID: <1125176689.25260.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi, Lastly I upgraded my computer to the last development version of Ubuntu Linux. I decided to retry alexandria and I installed it and all what it need (gtk/gnome stuff, yaml, gettext, etc.) But when I launch it, it failed and tell me: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/locale_default.rb:12:in `require': no such file to load -- gettext/_locale (LoadError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/locale_default.rb:12 from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/locale.rb:15 from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext.rb:18 from ./alexandria:6 I know that it is not a problem with alexandria but a distribution (ubuntu) problem, I decided to report the bug in ubuntu bugzilla, but I would like know if there is other people having the same problem. Math -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I decided to retry alexandria and I installed it and all what it >need (gtk/gnome stuff, yaml, gettext, etc.) > >But when I launch it, it failed and tell me: >/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/locale_default.rb:12:in `require': no such >file to load -- gettext/_locale (LoadError) > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/locale_default.rb:12 > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/locale.rb:15 > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext.rb:18 > from ./alexandria:6 > >I know that it is not a problem with alexandria but a distribution >(ubuntu) problem, I decided to report the bug in ubuntu bugzilla, but I >would like know if there is other people having the same problem. > > I've got an identical problem, same distribution, same message. ian. From bel8 at lilik.it Sun Aug 28 05:12:22 2005 From: bel8 at lilik.it (Claudio Belotti) Date: Sun Aug 28 05:05:49 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] exporting to bibtex In-Reply-To: <20050825141353.GA18414@windmill.ifac.cnr.it> References: <20050825113316.GC11365@windmill.ifac.cnr.it> <1be7247c05082506257694c356@mail.gmail.com> <20050825141353.GA18414@windmill.ifac.cnr.it> Message-ID: <20050828091222.GA13130@windmill.ifac.cnr.it> Hi all, I committed the export_as_bibtex. Bibtex entries are @BOOK, year is set to "n/a" for the moment, until it is supported. Alexandria notes field is exported as OPTnote (delete "OPT" in .bib if you want this in the bibliography). The citation_key is constructed using the first word of the first author + a counter (Dick1, Adams1, Dick2) I'm afraid this sometime can be either the first name or the last name (i.e. Douglas Adams -> Douglas1). ciao Claudio From bel8 at lilik.it Sun Aug 28 05:17:05 2005 From: bel8 at lilik.it (Claudio Belotti) Date: Sun Aug 28 05:08:27 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] [wishlist] journals/pdfs Message-ID: <20050828091705.GA4624@idrogeno> There was some talking on debian-science mailing list (http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00180.html) on using alexandria + other software to manage personal (scientific) literature. Laurent, this is my (very) personal wishlist - alexandria to manage (scientific) journals - alexandria to manage pdfs Claudio From john at stoffel.org Sun Aug 28 18:10:58 2005 From: john at stoffel.org (John Stoffel) Date: Sun Aug 28 18:04:19 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Barcode scanner report Message-ID: <17170.13938.922843.393911@smtp.charter.net> Hi all, Just found out about Alexandria and I'm already very impressed with what is offers. Just a quick note that it does support my Symbol Technologies cordless barcode scanner quite well. This model sits on the PS/2 keyboard port and inserts ASCII characters. Once I get it to send the Barcode plus an appended return, life will be good. This leads to a couple of wish list items: - Allow bulk adds of books. With the scanner, I can just go through a bunch of them quickly, but having to hit Alt+N all the time for each new one gets to be a drag. I'd love a 'add multiple' button so I can just scan in barcodes without waiting. - The next one is to allow ISBN lookups to happen in the background. As I scan items in, just start looking them up, but don't wait too much and keep going. Especially with some of my older books which aren't on amazon since they're not available anymore, it's a pain to have to stop each time. - Allow feed back to be audible, instead of with popups and dialogs. A nice cheery beep for a good scan, and "blah" beep for a failure of some sort. Again, to make it easy to scan in stuff quickly. I'll go back later and do the data cleanup. Thanks again for a great tool, I can't wait to see how it gets better! John From lrz at gnome.org Mon Aug 29 06:34:19 2005 From: lrz at gnome.org (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Mon Aug 29 06:29:30 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] exporting to bibtex In-Reply-To: <20050828091222.GA13130@windmill.ifac.cnr.it> References: <20050825113316.GC11365@windmill.ifac.cnr.it> <1be7247c05082506257694c356@mail.gmail.com> <20050825141353.GA18414@windmill.ifac.cnr.it> <20050828091222.GA13130@windmill.ifac.cnr.it> Message-ID: <19462.81.255.72.1.1125311659.squirrel@mail.dhertog.be> Hi Claudio, On Sun, August 28, 2005 11:12 am, Claudio Belotti wrote: > Hi all, > I committed the export_as_bibtex. > Bibtex entries are @BOOK, year is set to "n/a" for the moment, until it is > supported. Alexandria notes field is exported as OPTnote (delete "OPT" in > .bib if you want this in the bibliography). > I did think about this and I decided to support publication dates in the next release. For Amazon this is very simple (as Liam said), but for other providers this will require some extra work. Stay tuned. > > The citation_key is constructed using the first word of the first author > + a counter (Dick1, Adams1, Dick2) I'm afraid this sometime can be either > the first name or the last name (i.e. Douglas Adams -> Douglas1). > Well, Owain's surname parsing support (that will also be added in the next release) should fix this problem :-) Thanks for your work Laurent From lrz at gnome.org Mon Aug 29 06:36:02 2005 From: lrz at gnome.org (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Mon Aug 29 06:29:56 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] [wishlist] journals/pdfs In-Reply-To: <20050828091705.GA4624@idrogeno> References: <20050828091705.GA4624@idrogeno> Message-ID: <18608.81.255.72.1.1125311762.squirrel@mail.dhertog.be> Hi Claudio, On Sun, August 28, 2005 11:17 am, Claudio Belotti wrote: > There was some talking on debian-science mailing list > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00180.html) on using > alexandria + other software to manage personal (scientific) literature. > Very interesting. I will follow this thread. > Laurent, this is my (very) personal wishlist > - alexandria to manage (scientific) journals > - alexandria to manage pdfs > Also interesting. Could you file some entries in the features request tracker, so we do not forget about this? Thanks -- Laurent From lrz at gnome.org Mon Aug 29 06:39:52 2005 From: lrz at gnome.org (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Mon Aug 29 06:33:14 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Barcode scanner report In-Reply-To: <17170.13938.922843.393911@smtp.charter.net> References: <17170.13938.922843.393911@smtp.charter.net> Message-ID: <19755.81.255.72.1.1125311992.squirrel@mail.dhertog.be> Hi John, On Mon, August 29, 2005 12:10 am, John Stoffel wrote: > > Hi all, > > > Just found out about Alexandria and I'm already very impressed with > what is offers. Just a quick note that it does support my Symbol > Technologies cordless barcode scanner quite well. This model sits on > the PS/2 keyboard port and inserts ASCII characters. Once I get it to send > the Barcode plus an appended return, life will be good. > > This leads to a couple of wish list items: > > > - Allow bulk adds of books. With the scanner, I can just go through a > bunch of them quickly, but having to hit Alt+N all the time for each new > one gets to be a drag. I'd love a 'add multiple' button so I can just > scan in barcodes without waiting. > > - The next one is to allow ISBN lookups to happen in the background. > As I scan items in, just start looking them up, but don't wait too > much and keep going. > > Especially with some of my older books which aren't on amazon since > they're not available anymore, it's a pain to have to stop each time. > In fact as you could see the barcode support in the current version is pretty poor. We have been thinking about a new dialog window dedicated to barcode scanning, featuring what you described; scanning a bunch of barcodes with Internet lookups in the background, then adding them all at once. Wait for the next release to see this :) > - Allow feed back to be audible, instead of with popups and dialogs. > A nice cheery beep for a good scan, and "blah" beep for a failure of > some sort. Again, to make it easy to scan in stuff quickly. I'll go back > later and do the data cleanup. > Mmh I did not think about that. This is a good idea, I need to check the GNOME API to see how we could do that (using GStreamer would be IMHO a bit overkill). Thanks for your feedback! -- Laurent From todd at hardboot.org Mon Aug 29 09:24:21 2005 From: todd at hardboot.org (Todd Walton) Date: Mon Aug 29 09:17:43 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] [wishlist] journals/pdfs In-Reply-To: <20050828091705.GA4624@idrogeno> References: <20050828091705.GA4624@idrogeno> Message-ID: <43130C85.9000202@hardboot.org> Darned it. I sent this email only to Claudio. I always do that with this list... Anyway, here. I've edited it some since I sent it to you, Claudio. Claudio Belotti wrote: >- alexandria to manage (scientific) journals >- alexandria to manage pdfs > > Well, I can't say I'm personally very interested managing scientific journals. But pdfs! I have many pdf files that are large, subject specific, and that I intend to keep forever. They're basically books without the physical paper and glue. It'd be nice to have a system of organizing them. Plus, with Amazon coming out with their "Shorts" project, there might grow to be more people in this situation. Amazon Shorts is a new thing they're trying. An author will write a short (500 to 3000 word essay, article, or short story) and Amazon will sell it for half a U.S. dollar. 49 cents, specifically. When you buy one, you get the option of downloading it in text, HTML, or PDF. I would personally always go for PDF. -todd From marrakis at gmail.com Sat Aug 27 16:09:44 2005 From: marrakis at gmail.com (Arrakis Muadib) Date: Fri Sep 2 06:41:23 2005 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Problem with ruby and libgettext Message-ID: <1125173384.14917.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi, Lastly I upgraded my computer to the last development version of Ubuntu Linux. I decided to retry alexandria and I installed it and all what it need (gtk/gnome stuff, yaml, gettext, etc.) But when I launch it, it failed and tell me: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/locale_default.rb:12:in `require': no such file to load -- gettext/_locale (LoadError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/locale_default.rb:12 from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/locale.rb:15 from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext.rb:18 from ./alexandria:6 I know that it is not a problem with alexandria but a distribution (ubuntu) problem, I decided to report the bug in ubuntu bugzilla, but I would like know if there is other people having the same problem. 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