Alexandria 0.5.0

[Laurent Sansonetti <laurent sansonetti gmail com>]

Hi,

Alexandria 0.5.0 has just been released!

Alexandria is a GNOME application to help you manage your book
collection.

You can get more information (screenshots, features, download links,
packages...) on its web site:

 http://alexandria.rubyforge.org

This release introduces amongst other things XHTML/CSS export, a new
provider to the Spanish Ministry of Culture, loaning support,
ISBN-less support, and a lot of bug fixes and usability/performances
improvements.

Details are following.  Enjoy!

New features:
* XHTML export with CSS themes ;
* Added provider for book information retrieval of the Spanish Ministry of
  Culture ;
* Loaning support (very basic though), actually possible to mark a book
  as loaned and specify a person name and a date ;
* Possibility to manually add ISBN-less books ;
* The ISBN-list import supports EAN ;
* The Amazon provider supports the French and Canadian web-services (via
  Ruby/Amazon 0.9.0) ;
* Improved the usability of the main, import and export dialogs ;
* Performances and memory usage have been improved ;
* Migration to new GTK+ 2.6 widgets.

Bugs fixed:
* Migrated any reference to Bookcase in the Tellico import/export ;
* Fixed a bug where importing an ISBN list file would cause a crash when an
  ISBN in the list did not have a cover image ;
* In the providers preferences dialog, disable the Setup button if the
  selected provider does not have any preferences to setup, instead of
  displaying a dialog ;
* Catchs the SocketError exception when calling providers, and returns an
  appropriate message ;
* When deleting more than one books, display a single alert dialog instead
  of an alert dialog for each book ;
* Added the possibility to reset the rating in the book properties dialog ;
* Fixed a bug  where EAN numbers with a checksum of 10 were incorrectly marked
  as invalid ;
* Fixed BN.com query regexes ;
* Fixed a bug when a book returned by a search by title/authors/keyword
  contains an invalid ISBN, propose the user to either add the book with a
  blank ISBN or cancel the add) ;
* Added workaround for an Amazon US encoding bug ;
* Setup the Amazon online information URL according to the selected locale ;
* Filtering text field is more robust ;
* Make sure we do not select a library before having setup the moves action
  at the beginning ;
* Fixed the wording of some messages.

Added translation:
* David Weinehall (sv).

Updated translations:
* Joachim Breitner (de) ;
* Laurent Sansonetti (fr) ;
* Masao Mutoh (ja) ;
* Miguel Ángel García (es).

--
Laurent