Re: Gnome-Media 1.520.2 released for Gnome 2.

[<bordoley msu edu>]

Best release notes ever!!
dave

iain <iain ximian com> said:

> Following the trend of minor programs[1] making important sounding press
> releases[2], we at the Gnome Media Project proudly present The Gnome
> Media Media Related Utilities Package (TGMMRUP) 1.520.2 ("And Miss
> Celine Dion sings love songs while our cities burn").
> 
> DATELINE APRIL 17, 2002
> 
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> 
> Gnome-Media Project Releases a New Version of the Gnome Media Media
> Related Utilities Package.
> 
> April 17, 2002 (The INTERNET). The Gnome Media project (consisting of
> Iain, a few voices inside his head, and some other cool people) is
> pleased to announce its umpteenth version of the increasingly popular
> Gnome Media Media Related Utilites Package for the second generation
> GNOME Desktop Environment. Gnome Media is a collection of bits and bobs
> that do stuff with media.
> 
> "Well, I think that we managed to conceptualise the synergy of the
> various forms of communication and lots of other stuff we found lying
> around and increased the speed of work." said Iain, some random guy who
> somehow ended up with task of maintaining this collection of "Media
> Utilities". "It is, to be blunt a whole new paradigm for the way people
> will view media. Well, listen to media, because we haven't got anything
> overly visual yet."
> 
> Bob, a voice inside Iain's head, commented, "The Gnome Media Media
> Related Utilities Package has evolved into something I could never have
> imagined. Like an application that controls the translation of digital
> data stored on small, flat round discs called Compact Discs into audio
> signal. Quite frankly I feel that we have outdone all of the previous
> attemps to create such an application."
> 
> "I think, that we, the Gnome Media Media Project team, have finally made
> a release that we can be proud to put on an FTP server somewhere.", said
> Janice, another of the myriad voices in Iain's head. "I am hopeful that
> this release will attract more contributors to find and fix bugs, add
> new features that we can't be bothered to do ourselves and expand The
> Gnome Media Media Related Utilities Package into a larger project which
> is more visible by Unix users."
> 
> Shortly after making this comment, Janice was slapped by Bob.
> 
> "The Gnome Media Media Related Utilities Package is possibly the best
> thing I have ever used," said a random person called Alex. "I think the
> way in which it has been written is a classic, and should go down in
> history along with that Knuth guys work. Classics. I especially love the
> way the buttons have been aligned with each other in Gnome-CD. That just
> screams "STYLE" at you."
> 
> Gnome Media Media Related Utilities Package 1.520.2 - Codenamed "And
> Miss Celine Dion sings love songs while our cities burn."
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Gnome-CD: Since the last release, 1.236.117 or something like that (see,
> even Iain can't remember the version numbers), Gnome-CD has come on in
> leaps and bounds. Iain contributed a very nicely laid out widget that we
> like to call a "volume control", and Theo made the FreeBSD
> implementation for it.
> 
> The theme selection is now instant apply, so when you click on a theme
> name, the theme changes. This code was courtesy of Iain.
> 
> Thankyou to Tigert who made a new icon for the eject button.
> 
> Gnome-Volume-Control: Again, this application has gone from strength to
> strength in this wonderfully wonderful release. Courtesy of Diego
> Gonzalez it now works if your OSS card name has spaces in it. 
> 
> And Iain kindly gave us the code to make the Volume Control be shrunk.
> Now you can have it only display the Main volume and CD volume, if you
> prefer, or, if you don't any other combination.
> 
> Gnome-Sound-Recorder: Some marvelous people fixed some evil evil bugs
> and made this great program even greater.
> 
> CDDBSlave2: Our amazing maintainer, Iain, made the track editor actually
> work, so now we can all change the names of the tracks on other peoples
> CDs so that they have no clue what they're listening to. I suggest
> changing Aaron Carter to Slipknot, so when your Slipknot loving friend
> goes to listen to his favourite CD, he'll find the sweet pop soundings
> of the lovable Aaron. If that doesn't stop him/her wearing black, then
> nothing will.
> 
> There would have been a website, but someone forgot the password. Doh.
> That website would have had screenshots, but thems the way the apples
> crumble.
> 
> Download The Gnome Media Media Related Utilities Package from
> ftp.gnome.org or its nearest mirros.
> 
> PR release written by Iain of the Gnome Media Project.
> (Miss Celine Dion is a trademark of the Sony Corporation of Canada)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> 
> Peace, love and harmony[3]
> iain
> 
> [1] See http://www.kdedevelopers.net/kopete/
> [2] See http://www.kdedevelopers.net/kopete/announce-0_3.html
> [3] Very nice, very nice, very nice, very nice, but maybe in the next
> world, maybe in the next world.
> 
> -- 
> "I think what we don't need is this worldwide apathy where people wait
> for a leader. It shouldn't be like that, especially after Spetember 11.
> England feels a bit like Germany before Adolf Hitler came along. There's
> more unemployment, more crime and people are wondering, `Who is going to
> get us out of this shit?` It's very dangerous." -- Alec Empire
> 
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