Wiican

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People from getdeb.net did it again! Now wiican 0.3.3 it’s packaged for Ubuntu 11.04 (codename natty narwhal) and downloadable via getdeb software portal.
Thanks Christoph Korn and the getdeb.net team!

A new cycle of wiican development has been finished, this time a minor release for getting better compatibility with Gnome3 and Unity desktops:

Tray icon migrated to AppIndicator for better working on Unity desktop
Merged all options into one single menu
New fancy symbolic high-contrast icons
‘Show mapping manager on startup‘ option added
i18n impulse! supporting chinese, asturiano, estonian …

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Let me introduce you, first, what wiican-0.3.2 offers:

HAL replaced with udev, for detect wiimote connection state.
New look&feel for the mapping manager.
Drag’n’Drop for ordering mappings on mapping manager.
Improved mapping editor via GTKSourceView: line numbers, better syntax highlighting, etc.
New translations added, others updated.

Where can you download a source tarball:
http://launchpad.net/wiican/0.3/0.3.2/+download/wiican-0.3.2.tar.gz
And now my memory dump:
It has been a long time [...]

It’s well known HAL, the hardware abstraction layer for Unix-like systems, it’s today deprecated. GNU/Linux distros and desktops have all planed to remove HAL as dependency step by step. HAL deprecation it’s also on the Wiican Roadmap.
When David Zeuthen himself, HAL developer, announced the aim for replace HAL with udev there where amounts of small [...]

One moth ago since i had got a big surprise: Ubuntu User magazine published a two full-page article about 0.2.x series Wiican.
It was at 2010-6 issue, titled ”Issue 6: Expert Security“, and even Wiican appears at the editorial note:
“Wiican: The Wiimote can act as a mouse substitute or a presentation remote.”
Not bad but the wiican-team [...]

I’m happy to announce Wiican it’s moving infraestructure from Launchpad to Gnome!
This is the first evidence of Wiican approximation to the Gnome community. With this change I hope to expand the number of users and developers by listening how to improve the software the Gnome way … maybe some day i’ll propose it as [...]

GetDeb is an unofficial project with the mission to provide the latest open source and freeware applications for the current Ubuntu Linux release.
People from getdeb.net did the work! Now wiican 0.3.0 it’s packaged for Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid lynx) and downloadable via getdeb software portal.
The first package 0.3.0-1~getdeb1 contained small bugs and some people [...]

First of 0.3.x Wiican series released!
This release it’s focused on making easy for users to build and share mappings across network and provide developers a way to explore and manage the wiimote connection status through a d-bus interface.
Download Wiican 0.3.0
The d-bus api isn’t documented yet but i think it’s easy enough to understand. Next steps [...]

Two enhancements has been almost finished for Wiican 0.3: a mimetype for wiican mapping packages and a syntax validator.
With the goal of making easier to edit and share mappings Wiican will provide a mimetype that allows to edit and execute a mapping from the mapping package directly. As you can see, in the new mapping [...]

I’m very happy to announce the first time Wiican has been included in a distro: Guadalinex v7. Guadalinex it’s a Ubuntu based distro developed in Andalousia by the regional government with citizens as target users.
The version choosed: Wiican 0.2.1. I know Guadalinex team has strong criteria for selecting apps to be included by default, so [...]