System Tray fix on Ubuntu Version

Thanks to our friend Jorge Peña, a sharp and detailed oriented FrostWire Ubuntu User from California, USA, we’ve fixed two things so far for 4.13.1.8.

The .deb installer had some .svn remains which have been cleaned

When you close FrostWire, unless you have changed the system tray settings in the options, it won’t close in ubuntu unless you kill the process, now the default behaviour is to close immediatly, until we have more people using java 1.6 and we can use the new classes for the system tray, as of now, we decided to remove the system tray because people were reporting too many crashes due to JDIC

Thanks to our friend Jorge Peña for the heads up.

Brasileros baixan muito FrostWire
We have seen an exponential increase of users coming from Brazil during this last month of April 2007, this means 4.13.1.8 will include a translation to Brazilian localized Portuguese.

If you’re from Brazil maybe you can help us make the best translation possible, just reply to this post and we’ll contact you.

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Thanks to the Linux community for reporting the problem with FrostWire crashing on startup if you have Java 1.6.0.

You can download any of these installers and the problem will be solved.

frostwire-4.13.1.5-1.i586.deb (Ubuntu/Debian)
frostwire-4.13.1.5-1.noarch.rpm (RedHat)
frostwire-4.13.1.5-1.noarch.tar.gz (TGZ)

For those who want to know the details, it was an incompatibility issue between JDIC (SystemTray) and Java 1.6.0 which now brings its own Desktop Integration components. For now we’ve turned off the Icon Tray on Linux, until jdic updates, or we can find a better work around.

If you’re really curious and want to see a little bit of java, check this revision and this one.

Hello friends,

Here’s a list of changes for version 4.13.1.5:

– Filter Options dialogs are back. Allows to configure how the Junk Filter and Keyword Filter should behave, as well as the list of blocked hosts.
– Misc. wording changes.
– Misc. tweaking on chat settings.
– Removed update notification mechanism from LimeWire, will start implementing our own soon.

let’s just say for now, we’ve been contacted by one of the Ubuntu developers because of our .deb package, the ubuntu developer said:

“I would like to sponsor it for ubuntu/universe if you are interessted 🙂 “

That’s pretty awesome right?

We want to say the Linux userbase shall never be taken as an unimportant minority on this project.

Special Thanks to the Ubuntu Developers and the Ubuntu User Community for using FrostWire.

Ubuntu Users can also chat with the FrostWire Chat Community
For now you can interact with the FrostWire chat community by connecting to our irc servers at chat.peercommons.net:6667 with your favorite irc client (while we figure out the bug with awt on linux)

We’ve decided to place donation pages upon random download requests, this because ever since 4.13.1 was launched, it has been a great success and the bandwidth/server costs associated are starting to reach costs that are out of our league when it comes to personal donations by members of the FrostWire team.

If you don’t want to donate, click again on the link of your desired installer until you get a direct download.

Linux installers are exempt of the donation page, however if you’d like to collaborate with money you can do so at http://www.frostwire.com/donate, if you want to collaborate with servers and bandwidth please contact us.

Finally the windows installer is ready, we’ll be testing and fixing any problems you might come across during the day, once the installer has been stabilized we’ll update the official home page for everyone to download.

We remind you that this FrostWire version supports Torrent Downloads, and features Chat Community.

DOWNLOAD WINDOWS INSTALLER!

Please give us your feedback here on the blog.

We remind you that FrostWire is absolutely FREE, if you pay for it you’ve been the victim of a scam.

As promised, here’s the pre-beta installer for Mac.

DOWNLOAD MAC INSTALLER HERE

Windows users, just hold on a little more, we’re still fixing a few details, and soon we’ll have a final release on the 3 platforms.

Mac Users, let’s hope you can give us some feedback.

Remember to go to Preferences -> Chat and change your Chat nick name.