[ANNOUNCE] Gnome Subtitles 0.4 has been released!

[Pedro Castro <mail pedrocastro org>]

What's It?
==========

Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports 
the most common
text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, conversion 
and synchronization.

* About: http://gnome-subtitles.sf.net/about

* Screenshots: http://gnome-subtitles.sf.net/screenshots

* Download: http://gnome-subtitles.sf.net/download


What's New?
===========

Release notes with screenshots are available at: 
http://gnome-subtitles.sf.net/gnome-subtitles-release-0.4 . Its summary 
follows.

- Automatically select the file's character coding in the SaveAs dialog
- Automatically open a video file when running Gnome Subtitles with a 
subtitle file as argument
- Improved Timings Shift dialog:
 * New selection options, allowing to apply the shift to all subtitles, 
the selected subtitles, and the selected subtitle to the first or last 
subtitles
 * Automatically update the shift value according to the video 
position, allowing to shift a set of subtitles to start at that position
 * Added a button to clear the shift value
- New File Properties dialog, showing the file name, path, character 
coding, subtitle format and timing mode
- Add a "Video" tag to the frame rate of the video, in the Video 
Framerate menu, when opening a video file
- Allow to open a blank subtitle file (showing no errors)
- Use Bug Buddy, the official GNOME bug reporting tool, reverting to the 
old bug reporter if Bug Buddy isn't available
- Added a Man page
- Fixed some bugs related to the GUI not being correctly updated when 
changing the timing mode
- Internal refactoring:
 * Updated to reflect changes in SubLib
 * Better handle documents and their properties
 * Better support changing the timing mode, which fixes some existing bugs
 * Single place for common video-related functionality
 * Ensure dialogs are properly shown, by setting them visible as the 
last step in their creation

Bug fixes:
- Error shown when opening a blank file (#417310)
- Can't load srt subtitles - detected encoding is not supported (#417303)
- MPlayer fails for each second file (#417869)

Thanks:
- Marcin Simonides, Marcin Zajaczkowski, Marco Lackovic, Phalanx747, 
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz

Where's It?
===========

The sources are available at: http://gnome-subtitles.sf.net/download
Packages for distributions will be available ASAP at the same address.


Enjoy,

--
Pedro Castro