Finally a new release :) The main features are a new chord and scale renderer using Cairo, which is much much faster than the old gnomeCanvas based one; support for left and right handed chords; the ability to orientate the chords either horizontally or vertically; better layout of multiple chord selections; and a massively improved UI.

I've uploaded some new screenshots so check them out. Then go and download it!

It's been a very long time coming (5 and a half years!), but a new release of Gnome-Guitar is just around the corner. When the new version is ready to release I'll list all the new features then (and update the Web Page a bit more thoroughly). In the mean time developers might be interested to know that Gnome-Guitar has been ported from C to C# and has been written using monodevelop. The current development version can be checked out (including the monodevelop project file) via our sourceforge Subversion repository. Info about doing so can be found here.

It's been a long time coming but it's packed with loads of new features! :)
The screen shots have also been updated to version 0.7.0 :)

The highlights:

• A new tree based UI for Gnome-chord.
• You can now select multiple chords.
• A renderer for Gnome-Scale (you can now see the scales on the guitar neck :).
• You can now search for chords that will compliment a given scale via the Tree Creator Dialog
• Preferences are stored using GConf (if you wish to edit them you will need gconf-editor as we don't have our own preferences dialog yet). (Nb setting the handedness dosen't do any thing in this release).

Due to gconf needing default preferences YOU MUST RUN 'make install' before gnome-chord will work.

You may have noticed that we haven't had any debs or rpms for the last release yet. This is due to changes in the structure Gnome-Guitar making it a lot harder for our packager to do his job :( This is now top priority to fix so hopefully we will have debs and rpms shortly.

The main feature of this release is the port to Gnome2! :)

Nb all the programs have been post-fixed with a 2. So it should be possible to have the gnome2 version installed side by side with the gnome1 version.

Also in this release:

• Sharing of in memory chord data base between instances.
• All the tools are now stand alone apps.
• Many small bug fixes
• Man pages from Sameer

Debs and Rpms will follow shortly.

This is another bug fix release which makes the bonobo component much more usable.

• Fixed any chord with unknown parts matching any other chord with unknown parts (a problem when trying to set chords from the bonobo component).
• Fixed crash when selecting the blues scale.

Debs and Rpms will follow shortly.

This is a bug fix release which makes the bonobo component much more usable.

• Fixed crash when bonoboChordCreator window was closed.
• GChord now understands chords with unknown parts to them (usefull if the chord is being set from something with very limited info about the chord such as a midi file).
• Fixed bug which made gchord recalculate all the keys the first time filter by key was used.

Debs and Rpms will follow shortly.

Thanks to Sameer for providing us with Debs and Rpms. These can be downloaded from the Sourceforge download page.

I've added a Road Map to the webpage this shows what great things are planed for gchord and when you can expect them :)

I've just got bugzilla working on our sourceforge page so if you do find any bugs of have feature requests pleace add them to bugzilla.

Just to let you know the Gnome2 version of gchord is well on it's way. But don't worry if your not ready to take the plunge just yet the gnome1 version will be kept around for a while. Though new version will only have bug fixes not new features.

And finally I have in my possession a version of GTabulator with GChord support :) Expect a release real soon :)

This release provides bonobo support and fixes a major bug.

Bonobo allows gchord to be used in other applications to provide chord rendering and selection. There are currently two apps that are working on incorporating gchord; gtab, and silverstring.

Currently gchord's bonobo interface has the following features:

• Bonobo control that renders the currently selected chord
• Connecting to a chord changed signal that is emitted when ever the chord changes.
• Getting an xml representation of the currently selected chord.
• Setting the current chord using an xml representation of a chord.

You now need bonobo to compile gchord!!! This means the dev packages too!!!

Also in this release is a fix to the crash when using gscale or filtering by key in gchord on Athlon and possibly other CPUs.

A serious bug was found in GChord 0.4 as I was packaging it. As a result 0.4 was never released. 0.4.1 fixes these problems. Summary of changes:

• Fixed bugs due to being inconsistent about whether modes and noteNos started at 0 or 1
• Fixed bugs relating to objects not being sunk.
• Fixed bug where by changes made to chords didn't filter down to the strings.

This release of GChord has focused mainly on fixing memory handling. This has resulted in completely rewritten (again) internals. But it should now be easy to keep gchord free of memory leaks and the like :). Summary of changes:

• Improved memory handling.
• Lots of memory leaks fixed.
• Fixed file save crashes due to memory corruption.
• A slightly improved chordCreator ui.
• Major Flat Five chords where added to the data base.
• A .desktop file and simple logo where created (so GChord turns up the menus).