ANNOUNCE: Cheese 3.3.2 released

From: David King <amigadave amigadave com>
To: gnome-announce-list gnome org
Cc: cheese-list gnome org
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Cheese 3.3.2 released
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:13:11 +0100
Huge changes to the API reference documentation, and new hotplugsupport, as well as many other updates.

what is it?
===========
Take photos and videos with your webcam, with fun graphical effects

what's changed in 3.3.2?
========================
  - Pre-release version bump to 3.3.2
  - Remove marshaller generation rules
    The generic marshallers, supplied by GLib, are used instead.
  - Make preferences dialog more netbook-friendly
    Fixes bug 663146.
  - Convert deprecated GtkVBox and GtkHBox to GtkBox
    Fixes bug 661661.
  - Add chapter IDs to documentation
  - Add Cheese architecture diagram to documentation
    Fixes bug 664333.
  - Set camerabin to playing before start-capture
    Fixes bug 663998, with the camerabin documentation being updated in bug
    664048.
  - Use private GObject pointer in Widget and Chooser
    Additionally, remove some dead code.
  - Add gtk-doc comments to UmCropArea
    Currently, UmCropArea is internal (and will likely stay that way), so
    the comments are not included in the generated documentation.
  - Use switch statement to select cases
  - Use better API to notify and install properties
    Changed g_object_notify_by_pspec() to g_object_notify() and
    g_object_class_install_property() to
    g_object_class_install_properties(). Added properties static array to
    hold properties. Added enum constants identifying properties and
    sentinels for array length definitions. Fixes bug 663098.
  - Improve CheeseAvatarChooser documentation
    Add documentation for private methods in CheeseAvatarChooser.
  - Improve CheeseEffect documentation
    Document the private methods in CheeseEffect. Simplify effect
    construction, by making the name and pipeline-desc properties
    construct-only. Improve some variables names.
  - Improve CheeseFileUtil filename handling
    Use GDateTime to format the time string. Use switch statements when
    selecting cases from an enum. Use g_build_filename() rather than
    g_strjoin(G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, ...).
  - Improve CheeseCamera documentation
    Document most of the private methods in CheeseCamera, and rename the
    device-name property to device-node.
  - Improve CheeseCameraDevice documentation
    Document most of the private methods in CheeseCameraDevice, and rename
    some variables to more closely match the property names.
  - Improve CheeseCameraDeviceMonitor documentation
  - Make CheeseFlash a GtkWindow rather than a GObject
    Additionally, add further gtk-doc-like comments to the flash
    implementation.
  - Comment Vala methods with Valadoc markup
    Add basic documentation to all methods in Vala sources.
  - Add hotplug support to preferences dialog
    Adding and removing camera devices in the CheeseCamera is now propagated
    to the preferences dialog UI. Partially fixes bug 603612.
  - Correct default brightness in the schema to zero
  - Improve GSettings schema text and include ranges
  - Also use the countdown duration for burst mode
  - Add a countdown-duration key to GSettings schema
    Add a new GSettings key to allow configuration of the duration of the
    countdown when taking a photo. Partially fixes bug 594267.
  - Bump required Vala version to 0.13.2
    Required for Clutter.TableLayout in clutter-1.0.vapi, which was added
    when Vala switched to use GIR files.
  - Use STYLE_PROVIDER_PRIORITY_USER
  - Use Vala ‘as’ operator where possible
    Use the as operator when fetching widgets from GtkBuilder files, to do a
    runtime type-check.
  - Include the version in the man page
  - Add generated man page to CLEANFILES
  - Fix a typo so that the man page is generated
  - Fix gtk-doc checks when srcdir != builddir
  - Add man page, generated with xsltproc
  - Add help button to the preferences dialog
  - Improve documentation to pass gtk-doc tests
    Add the deprecated API index to the documentation. Complete the rename
    of cheese_camera_set_device_by_dev_file() to
    cheese_camera_set_device_by_device_node(). Add missing documentation to
    reach 100% symbol coverage.
  - Enable gtk-doc tests during make check
  - Check for GStreamer plugins required at runtime
    Add a GStreamer plugin check to configure.ac, which checks for
    individual plugins with gst-inspect, rather than relying on the plugins
    being provided by checking for GStreamer pkg-config files. The check is
    non-fatal, as the plugins are not build-time dependencies.
  - Bump pkg-config requirement to 0.24
    Version 0.24 or greater of pkg-config is required in order to avoid the
    duplicate AC_SUBST macro calls for PKG_CHECK_MODULES substitutions.
  - Remove unused FULL_LIBEXECDIR from configure.ac
  - Add private pointers to libcheese GObject structs
    Speed up access to the private struct of the GObject by adding a
    pointer, so that *_GET_PRIVATE does not have to called each time. Create
    a typedef for the private structures in the headers, and hide the
    structs from the documentation by placing them inside a private
    subsection.
  - Add basic documentation for remaining public API
    Add cheese-widget-private.h back to files ignored by gtk-doc. Add basic
    documentation for the remainder of the public API. Use UUID instead of
    ID or UDI. Add blurb and nick to all documented properties. Add
    CheeseVideoFormat documentation. Use unsigned integers where the values
    are always positive. Sprinkle some const qualifiers. Add some filename
    GObject Introspection annotations.
  - Update TODO
  - Fix several compiler warnings
    Add some missing prototypes, correct some pointer type mismatches, return
    a value from functions that returns values and improve GError handling.
  - Use gnome-common compiler warnings
    Additionally, enable silent Automake rules by default so that warnings are
    more visible.
  - Add more classes to gtk-doc documentation
    Add basic documentation for CheeseCamera, CheeseFileUtil and CheeseFlash
    classes. Split the API reference into libcheese and libcheese-gtk
    chapters.
  - Add CheeseCameraDeviceMonitor::removed callback
    Added CheeseCameraDeviceMonitor::removed signal callback function in
    CheeseCamera. Fixes bug 662852.
  - Improved CheeseCameraDeviceMonitor::added signal
    CheeseCameraDeviceMonitor:added has now a CheeseCameraDevice argument.
    CheeseCameraDeviceMonitor is also now a member of CheeseCamera.
  - Add a long description to the DOAP file
  - help: fixed another typo
  - help: moving introduction page back to .page
  - help: fixed typo in Makefile.am
  - help: updated Makefile.am
  - Overhaul the libcheese documentation
    Add documentation for CheeseCameraDevice. Remove bogus XML included in
    the library overview. Add section documentation to all classes, and mark
    them as unstable. Add GObject and GObjectClass struct documentation.
  - help: renamed pages and rearranged sections
    Moved all pages, except introduction.page, into sections to make index
    look nicer.
  - Use license-type in the about dialog
  - Connect thumbnail nav button signals
    The thumb nav widget crashed when clicking the buttons to scroll the
    thumbnail view. This was caused by connecting to the wrong signals:
    ‘button-pressed-event’ and ‘button-released-event’, rather than
    ‘pressed’ and ‘released’. There was also some duplicate code for
    creating the left button, which led to a GtkButton being leaked when
    the thumb nav was created. Fixes bug 660686.
  - Remove obsolete MAINTAINERS file
    http://live.gnome.org/Git/FAQ#How_do_I_add_a_description_to_the_git_web_view.3F__What_is_this_.22blah.doap.22.3F
  - Remove obsolote cicl script
  - Increase the photo count in burst mode to 100000
    Fixes bug 659977
  - Use an idle handler to generate thumbnails
    A thread was used for generating thumbnails for CheeseThumbView, but
    this had problems with concurrent access to the GtkListStore which
    backs the thumb view, as in bug 648936. A simpler approach is to use an
    idle handler, which avoids the need for acquiring the GDK lock.
  - Restore gudev checks during configure
  - Added/Updated Translations
    - be, courtesy of Yuri Matsuk
    - de, courtesy of Mario Blättermann
    - es, courtesy of Daniel Mustieles
    - et, courtesy of Mattias Põldaru
    - gl, courtesy of Fran Dieguez
    - he, courtesy of Yaron Shahrabani
    - lt, courtesy of Aurimas Černius
    - nb, courtesy of Kjartan Maraas
    - sv, courtesy of Daniel Nylander
    - tr, courtesy of Muhammet Kara
    - xh, courtesy of Andiswa Mvanyashe
  - Added/Updated Documentation
    - es, courtesy of Daniel Mustieles

where can i get it?
===================
you can get it by pressing here!
http://download.gnome.org/sources/cheese/3.3/

what does it look like?
=======================
take a look here!
http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/tour

where can i find out more?
==========================
you can visit the project web site:
http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/

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