During the last week two applications I use quite often, Skype and the official Last.fm client, had stopped working. The error message that was displayed the first time any of these programs was launched during the login session indicated that there was a problem with the imsettings-applet. This has been a bit frustrating as I use Last.fm as my main source for music and Skype for communicating with friends and relatives. I am not aware of any other skype compatible software phones or any good alternative last.fm clients. Today, I upgraded my system and everything has returned back to normal. Checking yum.log I noticed that imsettings-libs has been updated. Here is part of the changelog:

UPDATE: I just read the news about lastfm’s new policy after March 30. It is a pity. I joined about a month ago and also subscribed without actually enjoying any of the features. It’s not about the money. 3 EUR per month is not a lot of money for such a service. It’s the different treatment of their customers I cannot accept. So long lastfm.

[gnot@galeon ~]$ rpm -q --changelog imsettings-libs
* Wed Mar 18 2009 Akira TAGOH  - 0.105.1-4
- Fix a dead key not working. (#483840)
- Get rid of more debugging messages. (#484142)
- Disable imsettings-xim in xinput.sh. (#485595)
- Fix a parser error on reading Compose data.
- Fix a double-free issue.
- Workaround to get the accelerator keys working again.
  Note that this workaround might affects to the performance. you may want
  to disable this with:
  gconftool-2 -t bool -s /apps/imsettings-applet/sync_on_forward false
  (#488675)
- Fix getting-stuck-issue on keyevent. (#488976, #489611)

I am not quite sure which one fixed the aforementioned issue, but I am really glad things work again normally.

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Tags: Desktop, System, Updates