Parole, a modern simple media player for the Xfce desktop, has now reached the 0.9.0 release with a fresh set of features and fixes.
What’s new in Parole 0.9.0:
- New “mini mode”, activated from the right-click menu.
- New play and replay icons in the player content area. Clicking on these will play or replay your media (finally)!
- Most deprecated API calls have been dropped or replaced. We’re not dropping GtkStatusIcon yet, the notification area lives on in Xfce!
- Double buffering with the X11/XV video outputs has been reenabled. Ubuntu has been carrying this patch for a while now.
- The window title and content title are now set to the playing filename if no ID3 tags are found.
- Plugins can now be loaded by name instead of full path (plugin-name.so).
- The desktop file and related AppStream have been updated to the now-standard “reverse-DNS” convention (org.xfce.Parole)
- Translation updates.
How to Install Parole 0.9 in Ubuntu / Linux Mint:
Besides building from the Parole source tarball, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04, users can install the 0.9.0 release from PPA repository (unofficial):
1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
2. Then upgrade the software via Software Updater (Update Manager) if a previous release is installed:
For those who don’t want to add PPA, grab the DEB package directly from THIS PAGE.
Uninstall:
For any reason you can easily restore Parole media player to the original version available in Ubuntu Software App, by running command in terminal:
sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
