Elementary Needs You: What To Call Nautilus' CoverFlow View?

The Elementary-Nautilus team are trying to decide what to call their "CoverFlow" view in Nautilus and they need your help. See the image above? Well like me you probably call it CoverFlow in your head but since that name is all trademarked and stuff by Apple it can't actually be called that. So what do you call it? CoverView? SlideFlow? CoveryGloobusyFile... thingy? Vote in the poll and help shape the future!

Image courtesy of MastroPino

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Clutterflow 0.3.6 Released

Clutterflow - the cover-flow style interface for Banshee - sees another new release this month, this time version 0.3.6 which adds the ability to search your albums using the Banshee filter entry.

 

We've spoken at length before about Clutterflow so for a reminder checkout here and here.

Download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/clutterflow/files/banshee-extension-clutterflow.deb/download

Installation

Double-click the .deb, start Banshee and select 'Clutterflow' from the 'view' menu.

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New Release of Clutterflow - now with .deb installer!

Clutterflow 0.3.5 - a cover flow style plugin for banshee - released a revised Alpha version of their awesome add-on late last week. Quite a few significant changes have landed since we last blogged about this plugin: -

• Toggling the Clutterflow can now be done via the View Menu
• Clutterflow now has its own 'tab' with the preferences dialogue
• Album scrolling can be done by clicking and 'dragging' the mouse in a direction

Here is version 0.3.5 in action! Bugs! A few issues are present in this version including possible errors on start-up, search is no longer working and playing a track with no album meta-data will crash Banshee. Other than that it's a great improvement! Download/Install You will need a recent build of Banshee and various clutter libraries. See our previous post for getting and installing these. (Though you may not need them) Clutterflow itself can be installed using the following easy-install .deb: downloads.sourceforge.net/project/clutterflow/banshee-extension-clutterflow.deb Once installed don't forget to enable it in the Edit >Preferences > Extensions menu!

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Clutter-Flow Is A CoverFlow Plugin For Banshee

Clutter-Flow brings a CoverFlow interface to Banshee - allowing you to browse through your music in style.

Any Good? The extension uses the Clutter toolkit to provide the graphical interface and despite it currently being in Alpha, it is incredibly usable already. Albums are sorted alphabetically and using your scroll wheel to flick through them really shows off the power of Clutter with seamless and slick animation. The CoverFlow clone also works in full-screen mode - where it particularly shines!

Install Now I'm sure you want to install this - and who am i to advise you not to? Just keep in mind that this plug-in is still in development, is an Alpha and ergo things may crash. Capisce? Awesome. Installing Clutter-Flow itself is relatively easy, though it does require the following shopping-list of dependencies: -

• Mono (v2.4 or later)
• Monodevelop (v2.0 or later)
• Banshee (v1.5 or later)
• Clutter (v1.0.6 or later)
• Clutter-gtk (v0.10.2 or later)
• Clutter-sharp

Installing The Dependencies Mono, monodevelop and Banshee can all be installed via the Ubuntu Software Centre/Center. Clutter-GTK can be installed through the terminal using: -

• sudo apt-get install libclutter-gtk-0.10-0 && libclutter-gtk-0.10-dev

To get the required versions of "the other" Clutter stuff with a minimum of fuss you're going to need to get your hands dirty. First of all install git-core

• sudo apt-get install git-core

We need this to be able to pull the following branches. We'll do them one at a time. First up let's get and install Clutter

• git clone git://git.clutter-project.org/clutter
• cd clutter
• ./autogen.sh
• make
• sudo make install

Now we need to install Clutter-sharp.

• git clone git://git.clutter-project.org/bindings/clutter-sharp
• cd clutter-sharp
• ./autogen.sh
• make
• sudo make install

Providing those have all installed okay move on and install the coverflow for Banshee extension.

• Download the plugin by clicking here
• Extract the archive
• Press Alt+F2 and type
• gksu nautilus /usr/lib/banshee-1/Extensions
• Move the extracted Banshee.ClutterFlow folder into the folder that opened from the command above.

Now start Banshee! The extension will have been automatically enabled. Select 'Cover Flow' from the 'Music' menu in the sidebar to go to the Clutter-Flow view.

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