Wiican

Last week I got surprised by a Wiican user who is using it for controlling MOC (Music on Console). Kinda geek mediacenter! isn’t? I love it If you’ve curious: a video for seeing Wiican over MOC in action has been recorded by Oscar, click on the image on the right. Oscar has been [...]

Finally I found some time for fixing some bugs and coding a new feature: now the user can mark a mapping for being autostarted at Wiican launching. It was reported as wishlist at #502292 and it turns Wiican as a partner for wiimote-controlled media centers or HTPCs. The way to proceed is quite simple: Use the “Autostart” [...]

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

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 ... [More] menu New fancy symbolic high-contrast icons ‘Show mapping manager on startup‘ option added i18n impulse! supporting chinese, asturiano, estonian … Download [...] [Less]

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 ... [More] 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 [...] [Less]

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 ... [More] Zeuthen himself, HAL developer, announced the aim for replace HAL with udev there where amounts of small [...] [Less]

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 ... [More] downloadable via getdeb software portal. The first package 0.3.0-1~getdeb1 contained small bugs and some people [...] [Less]

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 ... [More] Wiican 0.3.0 The d-bus api isn’t documented yet but i think it’s easy enough to understand. Next steps [...] [Less]