Gloobus Getting New Interface, Features [Updated With Screenshots]

By , Published December 21, 2009

GloobusPreview sits merrily as one our favourite apps of the year and with todays’ announcement that it will be getting a shiny new interface – as mocked up by Dan Rabbit – it looks like it won’t be letting go of that title into 2010!

Annoyingly i can’t get the new interface to compile. The “New Interface” (which is under development) adds reflection, duration and current time information stamps and some shiny improved close and menu buttons.

Let’s take a quick gander: -

New buttons: -

Old docky inside new docky for comparison

Gloobus also adds .psd (Photoshop file) previewing: -

Reflections, timestamps and (eventually) a new button for music previewing!

Install

If you’re brave and want to try it out already – you can!

You will need bzr installed, so grab that if you don’t already have it.

then simple follow the set-up below: -

  • bzr branch lp:~gloobus-dev/gloobus/newInterface
  • cd newInterface
  • ./autogen.sh
  • make
  • sudo make install

Remember to be helpful and report bugs back @ the launchpad page.

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://disqus.com/forums/omgubuntu/willwillibex_one_of_the_best_forgotten_themes/trackback/ virtualspectre8@googlemail.com

    Holy CRAP that looks so freaking beautiful!!!!!!!! I love it!!!

    Man, Dan Rabbit is the best!!!

  • http://twitter.com/SeifSallam Seif Sallam

    shouldn’t this be available through the PPA?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      They’ve only just started implementing it, so i doubt it’s ready for prime PPA action. That said, i’d love to see a “daily” PPA for Gloobus using the bzr.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/6YKBQ6636DQ525ETHRSVJJOS4Y RSVR85

    How do we uninstall it and retain the ‘old’ version?

  • DanRabbit

    I think we blew up the bzr yesterday on accident :D

    But, you have to run both “./autogen.sh” and “./configure” to compile ;)

  • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

    It’s interesting how these new apps have all some gui consistency; gnome-do, docky (ok, these two are understandable) – but also gloobus, covergloobus… it’d be nice if gnome3 would walk in the same the direction. It’d be so cool it could compete with KDE in terms of beauty…

    • DanRabbit

      Well, Gnome-Do, Docky, and Gloobus all use Cairo ;)

  • Anonymous

    All this shiny reflecty bling is all well and good, but it looks horribly out of place in Gnome.

    “it’d be nice if gnome3 would walk in the same the direction”
    No, it’d be nice if Gnome 3 would be aesthetically pleasing without blindly following OSX

    But such is the ‘trendy’ way these days…

  • rkv

    the pause button doesn’t work?
    anyone got it to work?