After updating to Natty: Why has Diodon stopped working?

Projects,

The question has been raised why Diodon is not running anymore after updating from  Maverick to Natty. If you have encountered the same problem I hope the following explanation will clear it up.

So in Maverick Diodon is linked against several libraries such as libdbusmenu-glib.so.1. This library has been updated in Natty and is there available as libdbusmenu-glib.so.3. This is actually not a problem as there are different debian packages available for Maverick and Natty which link to the different libraries.

However a problem can be raised when updating from Maverick to Natty. During the update process Ubuntu disables all 3rd party apt installation sources including the Diodon ppa. So the system will get updated but the correct Diodon version for Natty won’t be installed. This means the old Diodon Maverick binary, which is linked against libdbusmenu-glib.so.1, is still on the system. As this library is not available on Natty, however, it can not be started anymore.

To get around this, the Natty Diodon ppa needs to be configured and the Natty Diodon version installed. This can be done with the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diodon-team/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install diodon

So this way Diodon should be up and running again.

Diodon available for Lucid

Projects,

As Diodon has some dependencies not available per default in Lucid there was so far no package for it. However as Lucid is a LTS version and some user would still like to use Diodon on their machine I have some great news from you ;):

After some dependency fiddling and adjusting code a new Diodon version 0.3.1 is available which can now be built on Lucid as well (Note: ppa:sao/backports is needed however).

Find a package in the official Diodon ppa.

Diodon: Looking for a designer

Projects

You might have heard about the Diodon project, a new clipboard manager for GNOME./Unity. No? If not so find more about it on the Lauchpad Project side.

Diodon is a project aiming to integrate well into the GNOME and Unity desktop thereby having a small footprint.

Currently Diodon uses a application indicator to access the clipboard history. However, plans are to replace this with a more accessible dialog with filtering ability.

Although such plans will integrate Diodon better into the desktop there is no way around for a better look and feel but having the right icons maybe even wallpapers etc… Hence, we are looking for a designer who can help us out in this area.

Interested? Please contact us over irc, mail or whatever way you prefer (see here). Your help would be very much appreciated.

A new age

General

The frequency of posts has been pretty low in the last few months. However, there are many exciting things going on around esite.ch so I hope to get around more often to leave one or another message here.

To accomplish this it is important to me that this blog gains more focus. Therefore I have decided to change a couple of things. Firstly, you propperly already noticed, I have changed the new look and feel to the new wordpress theme ;). Secondly have I moved the blog to esite.ch. blog.esite.ch is still available but just redirects to esite.ch.

To reach a wider audience all future posts will be in English. However, all old posts will remain in German.

So I hope you like the changes and will see you around ;).