gThumb 2.90.1 released

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

gThumb 2.90.1 is now available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gthumb/2.90/

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gthumb-2.90.1.tar.xz

This is the fist release of the 2.90.x development series that will lead 
to the next stable version.  With this release gThumb has been ported to 
Gtk+ 3 and GSettings, the libunique dependency has been removed as well 
as the use of many deprecated functions.  See below for the complete 
list of changes since the latest stable series.

Though the first of a development series this release should be fairly 
stable, please give it a try to help the developers to fix as much bugs 
as possible.

What is gThumb
==============

gThumb is an image viewer and browser utility for the GNOME environment.
The README file distributed with the tar archive contains a complete 
list of features and the instructions to compile the source. The 
complete description, screenshots and other info are available at 
http://live.gnome.org/gthumb

Overview of changes from gThumb 2.14.2 to 2.90.1
================================================

 New features and user visible changes:

  * Added 'selections' as a more powerful way to select files. 
Selections are
    similar to catalogs but their content is lost after closing the 
application.
    Use Alt-n to add files to selection n, and Control-n to view 
selection n,
    for n in the 1..3 interval.
  * High quality zoom for SVG images. Requires librsvg.
  * Comment and tags dialogs: allow to save the metadata without 
closing the
    dialog.
  * Added option to reuse the active window when opening files from an
    external application.
  * Allow to hide/show the file properties pane.
  * Allow to change the position of the file properties in browser mode.
  * Save the image keyworks in the Xmp.dc.subject tag as well.
  * Save the Exif.Image.Software tag only if the content was modified.
  * Sync the rating with the Xmp.xmp.Rating tag.
  * Video viewer: jump to the specified position when clicking on the 
progress
    bar.
  * Video viewer: use symbolic icons for the play button and the volume 
control.
  * Make the 'shrink wrap' command work for the video viewer as well.
  * Image viewer: hide the horizontal scrollbar in 'fit width' mode.
  * Image viewer: implemented the checked transparency.
  * Show the Edit button in browser mode as well.
  * Moved the location chooser above the file list.
  * Preferences: show the slideshow preferences in the viewer tab to 
save some
    horizontal space.
  * Use the PICTURES special dir as the default startup location.

 Internal code changes:

  * Ported to Gtk+ 3
  * Ported from GConf to GSettings. Automatically convert the GConf values.
  * Ported from libunique to GtkApplication.
  * Ported to libchamplain version 0.12.
  * Removed use of deprecated functions.
  * Use the G_DEFINE_* macros to define GObject classes.
  * Added a custom widget to display the thumbnail list instead of 
GtkIconView.

 New or updated application translations:

  * Czech (Marek Černocký)
  * Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  * Esperanto (Kristjan SCHMIDT)
  * French (Claude Paroz)
  * German (Christian Kirbach)
  * Indonesian Translation (Andika Triwidada)
  * Italiano (Gianvito Cavasoli)
  * Japanese (Jiro Matsuzawa)
  * Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  * Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)
  * Slovenian Translation (Matej Urbančič)
  * Swedish (Daniel Nylander)

 New or updated manual translations:

  * Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
  * Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  * French (Claude Paroz)

Licensing
=========

This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public
License (GNU GPL) version 2 or greater. You can find a copy of the 
license in the file COPYING.


March 5th, 2012

Paolo Bacchilega