General Features and Responsiveness

• Add threading of operations so GUI doesn’t appear to hang
  • especially when doing online searches.
  • Right clicking on libraries[#17437]
  • Threading-related bug: Delete in context click disappears on initial click.
• Add visual feedback to long running operations (the application status bar can have an indeterminate progress bar, for instance).
  • For library loading
• Exceptions in the application layer should no longer cause the application to crash. (In glade_base.rb, the event handling block should wrap the call to method(handler) in a begin and rescue.)

New Features

• Switch to Amazon ECS 4.0 in the Amazon provider, as AWS 3.0 will be deprecated on March 31 2008. [Fixed in svn r917]
• [17255] Tooltips in the icon view [Implemented, but not perfect yet]

Bugs to Close

Suggested by L.C. Karssen

• [#14163] Newly added book is not selected
  • In Listview
  • In iconview
• [#16708] Hitting refresh button makes deleted books reappear
  • Remove refresh button from UI
• [#16619] When searching by isbn misses information [Fixed in svn r920]
  • Note: Refers to WorldCat provider
• [#16618] When you go back into properties program removes read it tag
• [#15329] Using & in library name is impossible
  • Note: Maybe a simple workaround is all that’s needed here, the overhaul of the way libraries are stored on disk can wait.
• [#14592] Fails to start: undefined method `isbn’
  • Note: Cathal fixed this partially but added a ToDo comment. Need to catch empty YAML files for books (usually corrupted by bad versions of Alexandria) and offer the user to re-import them from providers. [The method handle_ruined_books in ui_manager.rb does something very similar already.]
• [#18197] Setting book rating through right-click menu causes crash [This actual bug is fixed, but the report is kept open to deal with related issues]

• [#13302] z3950.bibsys.no does not support “search and retrieve” Z39.50 piggybacking, so make separation of search and retrieve an option on Z39.50 providers. [Fixed in svn r915]

Distribution

• ruby-zoom deb
• revolution deb
• virtual package for alexandria? [I think this idea has been discarded – CathalMagus]
• RPMS? [The Fedora packager, Mamoru Tasaka, might help us with this]

Website

• Update notes
• Gnome-updates list
• Alternate translations?
  • Perhaps just of release announcement?

Internationalization

• Updated Czech translation (note on website)
• New Galician translation (note on website)
  • Check encoding problems
• Japanese manual
• New Norwegian (Bokmål) translation (Jack Myrseth)
• New Irish (Gaelic) translation (Cathal Mc Ginley)