Re: ANNOUNCE: F-Spot 0.7.0 Released!

[Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be>]

And the first bug has already been found and fixed, sorry for that!
F-Spot might simply not exist and wait for a thread that might never
wake up. Simply force quit after a while, it will cause no harm.
Try git master for a fixed version!




On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 20:44 +0200, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> After a month of intense hacking, we have just released F-Spot 0.7.0,
> the first release of the unstable 0.7 series, which will lead up to a
> stable 0.8 in september. This means radical changes, possible breakage
> (which we try to avoid) and generally a lot of progress.
> 
> The goal of thus cycle is to replace as much code bits by Banshee-code
> (where possible), clean up, refactor, blingify. All of this will make it
> much more stable and hackable, allow us to solve some of our long
> standing issues (performance / memory usage) and do more radical changes
> (on the UI and internally).
> 
> Notable changes in this release are:
> 
>  * A fully rewritten import, much faster and less memory-hungry.
> 
>  * Reparenting and detaching support
> 
>  * New Mallard-based documentation
> 
>  * Started replacing core parts with Banshee equivalents.
> 
>  * No longer uses gphoto2-sharp, now uses gvfs which crashes less.
> 
>  * Fixed Facebook support
> 
>  * Modernized unit tests
> 
>  * A new build system
> 
>  * Duplicate detection that actually works
> 
>  * Mouse selection in the icon view.
> 
>  * Panning support using the middle mouse button
> 
>  * UI improvements and over 100 bugs closed: http://bit.ly/cyVjnD
> 
>  * 555 files changed, 36400 insertions(+), 48205 deletions(-)
> 
> All of this has been made possible by our contributors. Special thanks
> go out to Peter Sikking, Jakub Steiner, Hylke Bons, Garrett LeSage and
> Andy Fitzsimon for their invaluable design input at Libre Graphics
> Meeting.
> 
> People with code (and documentation) contributions to this release:
> 
>         Anton Keks, Bertrand Lorentz, Christian Krause, Christopher
>         Halse Rogers, Daniel Köb, Gabriel Burt, Harold Schreckengost,
>         Iain Churcher, Iain Lane, Lorenzo Milesi, Mike Gemünde, Nick Van
>         Eeckhout. Paul Lange, Paul Wellner Bou, Peter Goetz, Ruben
>         Vermeersch, Vincent Pomey, Wojciech Dzierżanowski
>         
> Translators for this release:
> 
>         Andika Triwidada (Indonesian), Andrej Žnidaršič (Slovenian),
>         Bruce Cowan (British English), Christian Kirbach (German),
>         Claude Paroz (French), Fran Diéguez (Galician), Gabor Kelemen
>         (Hungarian), Jorge González (Spanish), Kjartan Maraas (Norwegian
>         bokmål), Lorenzo Milesi (Italian), Mario Blättermann (German),
>         Michel Recondo (Brazilian Portuguese), Miloš Popović (Serbian),
>         Sira Nokyoongtong (Thai)
>         
> 
> This new release can be downloaded here:
> 
>         http://download.gnome.org/sources/f-spot/0.7/f-spot-0.7.0.tar.bz2
>         2ed8b993b374eccce3a89c836f64a7fa947687de4207c5ae14c25f1df2fc9203
>         Or through GNOME git, using the 0.7.0 tag.
>         
> Full NEW overview:
> 
> f-spot 0.7.0 - Jun 16 2010 - Full Steam Ahead!
> ----------------------------------------------
> - First release of the unstable 0.7 development series. Massive changes.
>  - Reparenting and detaching support (Anton Keks)
>  - A new Mallard-based documentation (Harold Schreckengost)
>  - No longer embeds flickrnet, uses distribution copy (Iain Lane)
>  - Adoption of a large amount of Hyena functionality (Paul Lange, 
>    Peter Goetz)
>  - No longer embeds gnome-keyring-sharp
>  - Completely rewritten import, much faster and less memory hungry
>    (Ruben Vermeersch)
>  - No longer use gphoto2-sharp, now uses gvfs which is less crash-prone
>    (Ruben Vermeersch)
>  - Fix Facebook support (Ruben Vermeersch)
>  - Modernized unit tests
>  - Revamped build (Mike Gemünde)
>  - Much improved duplicate detection (much faster too)
>    (Ruben Vermeersch)
>  - Mouse selection in Iconview (Vincent Pomey)
>  - Image panning support using middle mouse button
>    (Wojciech Dzierżanowski)
>  - Timeline slider now restricted to the size of the window
>    (Iain Churcher)
>  - Over 100 bugs closed (http://bit.ly/cyVjnD)
>