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| Name: parole | Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 |
| Version: 4.20.0 | Vendor: openSUSE |
| Release: bp160.1.1 | Build date: Tue May 27 15:10:14 2025 |
| Group: Productivity/Multimedia/Video/Players | Build host: reproducible |
| Size: 776556 | Source RPM: parole-4.20.0-bp160.1.1.src.rpm |
| Packager: https://bugs.opensuse.org | |
| Url: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/parole/start | |
| Summary: Media Player for the Xfce Desktop Environment | |
Parole is a media player based on the GStreamer framework and written to fit in the Xfce desktop. Parole features playback of local media files, DVD/CD and live streams. Parole is extensible via plugins; for a how-to document for writing a Parole plugin, see the Plugins API documentation and the plugins directory which contains some examples.
GPL-2.0-or-later
* Tue May 27 2025 Manfred Hollstein <manfred.h@gmx.net>
Meson has been added as a build system in this release, and the
associated archive has been generated by 'meson dist'. Although
autotools has been retained for the time being and can still be used
via 'autogen.sh', meson is now the preferred build system, and
autotools will be removed in a future release.
- Update to version 4.12.0
* Update README after switchover to meson
* build: Automate copyright year management
* Add meson build
* build: Use @ENUMPREFIX@ in glib-mkenums template
* build: Simplify desktop file generation
* build: Fix shellcheck issues in mime scripts
* build: Remove clutter support
* build: Replace xdt-csource with glib-compile-resources
* Translation Updates
- Remove obsolete parole-add-uri-scheme-handler-support.patch
* Mon Dec 30 2024 Manfred Hollstein <manfred.h@gmx.net>
- Update to version 4.18.2
* Update copyright year
* I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
* Added missing Keywords entry to .desktop file
* medialist: Fix wrong response code when saving
* player: Do not forward up/down keys to playlist
* Remove unnecessary GtkAllocation heap allocation
* build: Bump dependency versions and remove dead code
* scan-build: Fix unix.Malloc
* gcc-analyzer: Fix -Wanalyzer-possible-null-argument
* build: clang: Fix -Wunused-but-set-variable
* build: Explicitly depend on gstreamer-audio
* build: Clean up references of gstreamer-interfaces
* build: Explicitly depend on gstreamer-tag
* build: Use XDT_VERSION_INIT and get rid of configure.ac.in
* build: Switch from intltool to gettext
* Do not use type-check macros to test whether an object is still
alive
* Translation Updates
* Thu Nov 30 2023 Manfred Hollstein <manfred.h@gmx.net>
- Update to version 4.18.1
* Add missing chain-up to parent in constructed()
* Add runtime guard for XfceSMClient
* build: Restrict XfceSMClient to X11
* build: Use XDT_CHECK_OPTIONAL_FEATURE
* Small UI Improvements
* parole-conf: Fix critical warning and memory leak
* build: Define our own windowing macro instead of extending GDK's
* plugins: Disable systray icon outside X11
* Guard X11 code paths
* Fix invisible mouse (Issue #125)
* Add middle click actions to tray icon (Fixes #88)
* docs: Remove useless check
* mpris2: Properly disconnect signal handlers
* powermanager: Add missing sanity check
* Only use header bar if gtk-dialogs-use-header (Fixes #117)
* build: Add -export-dynamic to LDFLAGS
* Add icons at missing sizes, clean up SVG metadata
* Translation Updates
* Sat Feb 18 2023 Manfred Hollstein <manfred.h@gmx.net>
- Update to version 4.18.0
* Update copyright year
* Update bug report address
* player: Prevent infinite cycle when setting volume (#119)
* Update some icon names (!17)
* Reduce hiding controls to 2 seconds (Fixes #80, !12)
* autoconf: Some updates
* Update `.gitignore`
* build: Replace DATADIRNAME no longer set by xfce4-dev-tools >= 4.17.0
* build: Bump GLib minimum required to 2.38
* autoconf: Use AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS (!14)
* Fix memory leak when loading cover image (#98)
* Fix compilation warnings (!11)
* Makefile.am: INCLUDES -> AM_CPPFLAGS
* autoconf: Some updates
* Remove the deprecated keys from desktop file (!9)
* Translation Updates
* Mon Jan 11 2021 Marcel Kuehlhorn <tux93@opensuse.org>
- Update to version 4.16.0
* Add README.md to EXTRA_DIST (gxo#apps/parole#72)
* Translation Updates
* Mon Dec 28 2020 Maurizio Galli <maurizio.galli@gmail.com>
- Update to version 4.15.0
* Playlist Improvements:
- Playlist is now an in-window popover instead of a slide-out panel
- Shuffle functionality now utilizes a sort filter instead of randomly
selecting the next track, making it possible makeing the playback
history more accurate (gxo#apps/parole#32)
* DVD Support:
- Added a menu option to activate the subpicture menu
- DVD chapter selection from the playlist is functional again
- The DVD menu will now automatically load if playback does not start
successfully
* Dialog Appearance Improvements:
Each of the dialogs were ported to CSD with some cleanup and default
buttons marked as "suggested". The following dialogs had some additional
improvements:
- Go To Position: Timestamp inputs changed to vertical orientation for
better clock-like appearance
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Adjusted to "always-center" positioning since
transient positioning failed
- Open File: Spinner configured as the FileChooser "extra" widget
- Open Location: Removed some duplicated text
- Plugins: Rearranged the plugins manager, and moved credits to a
per-plugin About dialog
- Save Playlist: File type panel replaced with a combobox that also
filters the FileChooser
* General:
- Added basic GitLab pipeline
- Added new icon and icon name "org.xfce.parole"
- Added README.md
- Fixed distcheck builds with intltool 0.51.0
- Fixed full-debug builds with GLib 2.35+
- Fixed missing-prototypes errors
- Player controls are no longer hidden while the sound popover is open
- Selecting an option on the "Stream is taking too long" dialog will now
dismiss the dialog
- Sort POTFILES.in to make it easier to review
* Translation Updates
* Sat Nov 16 2019 Marcel Kuehlhorn <tux93@opensuse.org>
- Update to version 1.0.5
* Fix creation and cleanup of thumbnails (bxo#16026)
* Fix volume hotkeys in fullscreen (bxo#16005)
* Fix compiler warnings
* Translation Updates
* Sat Jul 27 2019 Marcel Kuehlhorn <tux93@opensuse.org>
- Update to version 1.0.3
* Drop deprecated OnlyShowIn keys in desktop actions (bxo#15259)
* Ensure the time divider is shown/hidden correctly
* Fix closing of Parole process with Ctrl-Q (bxo#15698)
* Fix compiler warnings (clang) (bxo#15260)
* Fix Gtk-CRITICAL when closing main window (bxo#15621)
* Change text '…' to '...' for consistency with other Xfce apps
(bxo#14266)
* Change text '60 seconds' to '1 minute' (bxo#15529)
* Move appdata to metainfo (bxo#15381)
* Translation Updates
* Mon Apr 08 2019 Vinzenz Vietzke <vinz@vinzv.de>
- Spec file update: switch URL to new upstream docs
* Fri Apr 05 2019 Maurizio Galli <maurizio.galli@gmail.com>
- Spec File cleanup:
- Switched to %autosetup %make_build to ease spec file maintanance
- Dropped obsolete macros
- Moved COPYING to %license
* Thu Apr 04 2019 Vinzenz Vietzke <vinz@vinzv.de>
- update to version 1.0.2
* Bug Fixes
- Added support for GST_INSTALL_PLUGINS_HELPER_MISSING when
attempting to install missing codecs (bxo#14529)
- Fixed compiler error -Wcast-function-type (GCC 8)
- Fixed disabling vendor-enabled plugins
- Fixed crash when disabling plugins (lp#1698540)
- Fixed play button sensitivity items are added to playlist
(bxo#13724, lp#1705243)
- Fixed Appstream validation by removing em tags (bxo#14260)
- Fixed plugin active state when reopening the Plugins dialog
- Resolved g_type_class_add_private warnings (bxo#15014)
* Translation Updates
* Thu Apr 26 2018 seife+obs@b1-systems.com
- update to version 1.0.1
* Translations only
* Sun Mar 25 2018 jengelh@inai.de
- Trim bias from description.
* Sat Mar 24 2018 seife+obs@b1-systems.com
- update to version 1.0.0: First stable release of the 1.0.x series!
New Features:
- Added "Automatic" video output option. This uses the auto
imagesink to provide the best available video sink for the
environment, eliminating the dreaded 'Could not initialise
Xv output' error (bxo#11950)
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed 32-bit crashes when using the MPRIS2 plugin (LP #1374887)
- Fixed crash on "Clear History" button press (LP #1214514)
- Fixed appdata validation (bxo#13632)
- Fixed full debug builds and resolved build warnings
- Replaced stock icon by freedesktop.org compliant option (bxo#13738)
- Translation Updates
* Sun Nov 19 2017 seife+obs@b1-systems.com
- update to version 0.9.2
- Update homepage to docs.xfce.org
New Features:
- Keyboard shortcuts helper available in the Help menu
- New B/N keybindings for previous and next track (bxo#12951)
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed null pointer dereference (CID 1375856)
- Fixed adding directories to queue via commandline (bxo#12899)
- Fixed shuffle functionality also repeating (bxo#12010)
- Fixed display order of audio and subtitle tracks (bxo#13268)
- Fixed "Clear Recent" clearing global history (bxo#13493)
- Fixed Ctrl-Q keybinding when in fullscreen (bxo#13549)
- Fixed string escaping in audiobox widget
Misc:
- various code quality improvements
- Translation Updates
- important changes from 0.9.1:
- Disabled the clutter video backend for GTK 3.22+, needs
significant updates to be functional again
- Enabled GStreamer tag lookup for remote files
- Fixed desktop file name for xfce-sm-client
- Fixed null filenames with remote files
- Improved support for live streams
- important changes from 0.9.0:
- New "mini mode", toggled by right click in content area
- New play and replay icons, now actionable on click
- Set the window title and artwork to the filename when no ID3
tags are found
- Theme developers caution! This release drops the background
color styles for the controls. Tweak your "osd" class accordingly!
(org.xfce.Parole)
* Fri Sep 22 2017 seife+obs@b1-systems.com
- disable gtk-doc build, fails with newer gtk-doc > 1.25
* Sun Dec 25 2016 seife+obs@b1-systems.com
- update to version 0.8.1
- new hidden setting to persistently hide the menubar
- MPRIS2 plugin: Add missing signal watch on shuffle property
(bxo#12045)
- fix crash on close that would happen in some systen
configurations (bxo#12169)
- make appdata validate (bxo#11653)
- translation updates
- do not package ChangeLog, NEWS file is good enough
* Sat Feb 28 2015 gber@opensuse.org
- update to version 0.8.0
- increased required intltool version (0.35) (bxo#11180)
- use libxfce4ui's versioned help call for the documentation
- fallback to GStreamer 0.10 at build time if 1.0 is not
available (bxo#11053)
- fix build with GStreamer 0.10 (bxo#11052)
- show preview text in the font selection dialog (bxo#11425)
- clear startup notification when already running (bxo#11487)
- translation updates
* Thu May 01 2014 gber@opensuse.org
- update to version 0.6.1
- properly use specified device, use correct URI (lp#1098323)
- completed port to GTK+3
- remove deprecated GTK+2 items
- use GtkOverlay for player controls
- use symbolic icons for menus, plugins
- improved window maximization
- window dimensions are no longer saved when maximizing
- added "window-maximized" setting to xfconf to keep
maximization across sessions
- rearranged and improved menubar
- renamed "Edit" menu to "Playback"
- renamed "Languages" menu item to "Audio Track"
- added Tools menu
- moved Plugins and Preferences to Tools menu
- added DVD menu (visible only when a DVD or DVD ISO is being
played)
- added "Save Playlist" item to Media menu
- added "Contents" item to Help menu
- added "Report Bug" item to Help menu
- improved playlist
- use symbolic icons in an inline toolbar
- removed redundant settings button
- added Move Up/Down buttons
- improved search
- plugin updates
- added Previous/Next Track menu items to Tray plugin
- added Previous/Next Track menu items to Notification plugin
- added NEW MPRIS2 plugin
- other improvements
- updated artwork (background image, icons)
- fixed GStreamer 1.0 support
- added ability to play DVD ISOs from the Open dialog
- plugins now correctly report when they fail to load
- plugin API documentation updates
- bugs fixed
- fixed missing option to open DVD from iso (bxo#10300)
- fixed allowing a playlist to be sorted and/or items to be
moved (bxo#10066)
- fixed Remember playlist option in GUI not working (bxo#10269)
- fixed Parole showing irritating edge (bxo#10081)
- fixed untranslatable strings (bxo#10418)
- fixed loading of playlists with relative paths (bxo#10436)
- added realmedia video to supported video mimetypes
(bxo#10434)
- fixed IF/ELSE for plugin installation on multiple platforms
(bxo#10142, bxo#10441)
- fixed building with enable-debug=full on some platforms
(bxo#10525)
- fixed crash for m3u files with all absolute paths
- fixed "Remove Duplicates" functionality.
* Thu Dec 05 2013 lazy.kent@opensuse.org
- Update to 0.5.4.
* Bugfix release.
* Fix loading of playlists with relative paths.
* Fix file-filters for audio/video mimetypes.
* Fix IF/ELSE for plugin installation on multiple platforms.
* Fix "Remove Duplicates" functionality.
- Add GenericName to the desktop file
(using suse_update_desktop_file macro).
- Fix runtime dependencies for openSUSE >= 12.3:
gstreamer010-plugins-* -> gstreamer-plugins-*.
- Don't remove any locale files: find_lang macro does itself if
founds them wrong.
- Remove "clean" section from the spec.
- Fix dependencies for the devel package.
* Mon Oct 21 2013 lazy.kent@opensuse.org
- Update to 0.5.3.
* Bugfix release.
* Fix “Remember playlist” option in GUI not working.
* Added accelerator to Audio menu item.
* Fix remembered playlist not being forgotten when setting
disabled.
- Mark Parole Plugins Manual as doc.
* Thu Jul 25 2013 gber@opensuse.org
- update to version 0.5.2
- revert "Fix MKV subtitles being shown when automatically show
subtitles is disabled"
- fix freezing on load of some subtitles
- fix crash on startup when "Remember playlist" option enabled
- fix muting after playing media
- fix failure to load filenames with space after colon
- fix gstreamer version check
* Mon Jun 03 2013 gber@opensuse.org
- update to version 0.5.1
- fix m3u playlist processing with relative filenames
- fix playlist controls disabling access to media controls
- fix next-button ignoring shuffle mode
- prevent shuffle from playing the same song twice in a row
- fix MKV subtitles being shown when automatically show subtitles
is disabled
* Thu Mar 07 2013 gber@opensuse.org
- update to version 0.5.0
- fixed potential file name clash in parole extension
- fixed libnotify error on make
- fixed moving show/hide playlist button
- fixed mute button toggling
- fixed playlist manipulation while playlist hidden
- fixed webm file support
- fixed aspect ratio calculation
- fixed untranslateable strings
- fixed timer update on user seek
- fixed auto-saved playlist saving as UTF-8
- fixed playlist menu from opening off-screen
- fixed notifications plugin notifying on play/pause
- added improved locale name support in audio tracks and
subtitles
- added gstreamer 1.0 support with --with-gstreamer=0.10|1.0
- added additional tooltips
- added theming to fullscreen widgets
- removed now-useless power-manager plugin
- removed scrollwheel event from progress scale
- improved audio cover image loading
- improved support for window manager fullscreen command
- improved tray plugin functionality, ported to xfconf
- made codec installer transient for player window
- moved playlist to .local/share/xfce4/parole
* Tue Jan 15 2013 gber@opensuse.org
- update to version 0.4.0
- fixed fullscreen controls
- fixed screensaver inhibition
- fixed freezing with subtitles
- fixed skipping every second ogg-vorbis in playlist
- added embedded mode
- added missing codec installation
- added custom subtitle management
- added CD and DVD playlist support
- added DVD navigation support
- added Recent Items in open menu
- replaced Stream Properties plugin with AudioBox widget
- moved notifications from system tray plugin to notify plugin
- added album artwork and details to notifications
- ported configuration to Xfconf
- interface refinements
- keyboard shortcut refinements
* Wed Aug 22 2012 gber@opensuse.org
- update to version 0.3.0.3
- fixed and fully tested --enable-gtk-doc, --enable-debug=yes,
- -enable-debug=full
- fixed CD-Drive icon disappearing after drive eject
- small interface tweaks to Plugins dialog
* Sat Aug 18 2012 gber@opensuse.org
- update to version 0.3.0.2
- maintenance release
- updated build requirements
- fixed installation directory for plugins
- fixed compilation of plugin api
- fixed compilation of debug=yes and debug=full
- fixed compiling twice
- dropped obsolete parole-fix-plugin-installation.patch and
parole-misc-fixes.patch
* Fri Aug 10 2012 gber@opensuse.org
- added parole-misc-fixes.patch with a range of fixes for missing
includes and prototypes, return statements, removal of unused
code and variables (backported from upstream git)
* Thu Aug 09 2012 gber@opensuse.org
- update to version 0.3.0
- replaced libxfce4gui dependencies with libxfce4ui
- upgraded GTK interface to GTK 2.20+
- revamped, minimalistic interface
- replaced playbin with playbin2
- improved subtitle/audio track handling
- improved keyboard shortcuts
- updated application icon
- added command line option to enqueue files
- cleared warnings due to deprecated functions
- fixed many of the existing bugs
- removed obsolete parole-fix-linking.patch
- added parole-fix-plugin-installation.patch in order to fix the
installation directory for plugin desktop files (backported from
upstream git)
- disabled plugin documentation which currently does not build
* Sun Apr 01 2012 gber@opensuse.org
- specfile cleanup
- corrected dependencies
- merged parole-0.2.0.2-fix-lib-linking-order.patch into
parole-fix-linking.patch
* Sat Aug 27 2011 gber@opensuse.org
- update to version 0.2.0.6
- automatically select row for the media that is currently played
- added parole-fix-linking.patch in oder to fix an underlinking
issue
- removed obsolete parole-0.2.0.5-missing-files.patch
* Sat Apr 16 2011 gber@opensuse.org
- update to version 0.2.0.5
- dropped support for the browser plugin.
- compatibility with newer gstreamer versions
- add some nice features from the new version, like media
tooltips, open containing folder, media length
- better chooser interface
- added -F --fullscreen to start in fullscreen mode
- bugfixes
- translation updates
- dropped obsolete
parole-0.2.0.2-remove-x-totem-stream-mime-type.patch, and
parole-0.2.0.2-do-not-hardcode-cxxflags.patch
- added parole-0.2.0.5-missing-files.patch which adds files from
the upstream repo which are missing in the tarball
* Thu Feb 17 2011 gber@opensuse.org
- call %desktop_database_post/un
- call %icon_theme_cache_post/un
* Mon Jan 31 2011 gber@opensuse.org
- added parole-0.2.0.2-add-uri-scheme-handler-support.patch which
adds URI scheme handler support
- minor cleanup
* Sun Dec 26 2010 gber@opensuse.org
- added parole-0.2.0.2-remove-x-totem-stream-mime-type.patch in
order to address http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6708
* Fri Dec 24 2010 gber@opensuse.org
- enabled plugin API documentation
- show compiler output
- corrected category
- remove unsupported locales
- improved summary/description
- require gstreamer plugins
- added parole-0.2.0.2-fix-lib-linking-order.patch in order to fix
the library linking order for ld --as-needed
- added parole-0.2.0.2-do-not-hardcode-cxxflags.patch in order to
make the browser plugin honor CXXFLAGS
* Mon Nov 08 2010 prusnak@opensuse.org
- require correct xulrunner version
* Tue Feb 02 2010 prusnak@suse.cz
- updated to 0.2.0.2
* Wed Jan 13 2010 prusnak@suse.cz
- updated to 0.2.0
* Wed Dec 02 2009 prusnak@suse.cz
- updated to 0.1.99
* Thu Nov 26 2009 prusnak@suse.cz
- updated to 0.1.96
* Fri Nov 13 2009 prusnak@suse.cz
- created package (0.1.91)
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