Zaheer Abbas Merali

So today I released Istanbul 0.2.0, the best release of Istanbul ever. Thank you all for the help and encouragement. I feel for all my brothers in Lebanon and Palestine for the oppressive treatment given by Israel. It is totally uncalled for and hope the international community condemn Israel’s actions.

Istanbul is available for download at http://zaheer.merali.org/istanbul-0.2.0.tar.bz2 . A Gentoo ebuild will be in Portage very soon. I recorded a cool screencast annotated by gromit showing how to use Istanbul, it is available for download at: http://dev.gentoo.org/~zaheerm/screencasts/istanbul-screencasting-itself-annotated.ogg.
Plans for the next release include adding sound recording and integrating post-production edit functionality with PiTiVi.

Release notes for Istanbul 0.2.0 “Zinedine Zidane”

This release is a tribute to one of the best players of the last 10 years. He nearly moved to Liverpool at one point, and would have been made welcome by most fans. He also seems to have the media all with him, as evidenced after Italy won the world cup. There has been more coverage of Zidane than of Italy’s win.

Features of this release

• Completely revamped UI, no more preferences dialog.
• Use gconf to store settings.
• Ability to select an area of the screeen and only record it.
• Support for recording OpenGL using applications.

Support and Bugs

Istanbul uses Gnome bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests.

Developers

CVS is hosted on cvs.gnome.org.

Contributors to this Release

• Zaheer Abbas Merali
• Christian Rose
• Luca Bruno
• Kiddo (sorry I don’t know your real name)

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