New release: 2.29.4

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

Version 2.29.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2010-03-01

* Translations
 - Add Czech help translation (Milan Knizek)
 - Add Czech translation (Milan Knížek)
 - Update Czech translation (Marek Černocký)
 - Updated French translation (Claude Paroz)
 - Updated German doc translation (Mario Blättermann)
 - Updated German translation (Mario Blättermann)
 - Updated Lithuanian translation (Aurimas Černius)
 - Updated Norwegian bokmål translation (Kjartan Maraas)
 - Updated Russian translation (Alexandre Prokoudine)
 - Updated Slovenian translation (Andrej Žnidaršič)
 - Updated Spanish translation (Jorge González)
 - Updated Swedish translation (Daniel Nylander)

* New Features:
 - Add a thumbnail image of the ColorCheckerDC (Graeme Gill)
 - Add ColorCheckerSG thumbnail (Hening Betterman)
 - Add LaserSoftDCPro thumbnail (Jorg Rosenkranz)
 - Add printer profiling support using argyllcms and GtkPrint (Richard Hughes)
 - Add some device type icons (Frédéric Bellaiche, Sebastian Kraft)
 - Add support for sending calibration images to print shops (Richard Hughes)
 - Add four more target thumbnails (Pascal de Bruijn)
 - Allow UDEV and CUPS coldplug to be done multi-threaded (Richard Hughes)
 - Allow virtual devices to be added to the device list (Richard Hughes)
 - Automatically use the EXIF data if available from TIFF files when
calibrating devices. Fixes #609444 (Richard Hughes)
 - Conform to ICC Profiles in X Specification 0.3 (Richard Hughes)
 - Detect printers by connecting to CUPS rather than scraping the
HPLIP properties (Richard Hughes)
 - Enable half-height targets for the ColorMunki, and double the patch
counts for this hardware (Richard Hughes)
 - Make users do the legwork when there is an unrecognised colorimeter
(Richard Hughes)
 - Play sounds using libcanberra when user interaction is required
(Richard Hughes)
 - Properly support projectors in the UI, and in the argyllcms wrapper
(Richard Hughes)
 - Remove GCM_HARDWARE_DETECTION as we're now shipping our own udev
rules (Richard Hughes)
 - Save the device colorspace in the config file so we can set
profiles when not connected (Richard Hughes)
 - Set a tooltip explaining why the calibrate button is insensitive
(Richard Hughes)
 - Set per-user xsane global and device settings when we have assigned
a scanner profile (Richard Hughes)
 - Show a GtkInfoBar warning if the profile has no vcgt table. Fixes
#610287 (Richard Hughes)
 - Support other types of reference file other than IT8 (Richard Hughes)
 - Three FAQ entries out of five suggested filled in (Alexandre Prokoudine)
 - Update Help Preferences Text (Paul Finnigan)

* Bugfix:
 - Add an 'All files' option on the file choosers. Fixes #610288
(Richard Hughes)
 - Add AC_PROG_RANLIB to configure. Fixes #610771 (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a list of colorimeters as we'll need this if argyllcms is not
installed. Fixes rh#566414 (Richard Hughes)
 - Ask for the chart type first before we ask for calibration files
(Pascal de Bruijn)
 - Capitalization fix for 'More Information' button (Michael Monreal)
 - Correct help Intro and Usage (Paul Finnigan)
 - Do low quality calibration when using targets with a low number of
patches (Pascal de Bruijn)
 - Do not allow devices to be assigned profiles in different
colorspaces from native (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not make the display calibration button sensitive (with tooltip)
if we are using < XRandR 1.3 drivers. Fixes #610846 (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not show the display as 'default' even when using the binary
blob (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't add Cups-PDF devices to the device list (Richard Hughes)
 - Ensure ~/.color/icc exists at startup. Fixes #566275 (Richard Hughes)
 - Ensure we set ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE and ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE
even if we're using old versions of argyllcms (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix segfault when the profile has no description (Richard Hughes)
 - Have scanin compensate for perspective distortion (Pascal de Bruijn)
 - HIG string and capitalization fixes (Michael Monreal)
 - Only require the device to be present if it is a display type
(Richard Hughes)
 - Read the ti2 file for the calibration model if we are analysing
existing targets (Richard Hughes)
 - Replace ColorCheckerSG with a newly processed one (Pascal de Bruijn)
 - Replace colprof -aS with -aG (Pascal de Bruijn)
 - Set the colorspace on unconnected devices to avoid getting no
profiles in the list (Richard Hughes)
 - Show a label in the device section when the user is using a
xrandr-fallback driver. Fixes rh#566606 (Richard Hughes)
 - Support colorimeter devices that need to change mode in the middle
of the calibration (Richard Hughes)
 - Use GFile internally so we can support importing profiles from gvfs
mount points. Fixes #610285 (Richard Hughes)

Version 2.29.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2010-02-01

* Translations
 - Added Italian translation (Francesco Groccia)
 - Updated Danish translation (Joe Hansen)
 - Updated French translation (Claude Paroz)
 - Updated German translation (Mario Blättermann)
 - Updated Norwegian bokmål translation (Kjartan Maraas)
 - Updated Portuguese translation (António Lima)
 - Updated Russian translation (Alexandre Prokoudine)
 - Updated Slovenian translation (Andrej Žnidaršič)
 - Updated Swedish translation (Daniel Nylander)

* New Features:
 - Enable the rendering intent and default colorspace UI elements
(Richard Hughes)
 - Show whether the ICC profile has a VCGT tag in the UI (Richard Hughes)
 - Filter out non RGB and CMYK color space profiles from the
combo-boxes using a heuristic (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a new DBus method GetProfileForWindow which can return a
profile for a supplied XID (Richard Hughes)
 - Add some new text and tooltips to the prefs dialog (Richard Hughes)
 - Add per-user OSX ICC profiles at startup (Richard Hughes)
 - Add OSX and Windows ICC profiles if they exist from mounted
volumes. Fixes #607390 (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a device profile entry of 'Other profile...' to be able to
easily import a profile. Fixes #607389 (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a precision GConf variable to control the time a calibration
takes. Fixes #605558 (Richard Hughes)
 - Screenscrape the Argyll output to better support other hardware
devices. Fixes #605558 (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not show the 'Fine tuning' expander by default, and have
configuration in GConf (Richard Hughes)

* Bugfix:
 - Zero out GErrors after freeing. Fixes crash (Christian Hergert)
 - Add gnome-desktop path as fallback for pci.ids (Frederic Crozat)
 - Do not generate an error if a display profile does not have CLUT
data (Richard Hughes)
 - Add gcm-fix-profile to load and then re-save existing profiles
using lcms (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix compile when using an ld that defaults to --as-needed (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not allow the colorspace combobox to be zero sized. Fixes
#606484 (Richard Hughes)
 - Make gcm-prefs a normal dialog rather than a modal dialog (Richard Hughes)
 - Only scan ICC locations with hfs partition types for OSX and
msdos/NTFS types for Windows (Richard Hughes)
 - Make gcm-prefs startup a few hundred ms quicker by not loading the
list of screens (Richard Hughes)
 - Cache gnome_rr_screen_new and take 0.7 seconds off the start time
(Richard Hughes)
 - Don't resize the window on startup. Fixes #607391 (Richard Hughes)
 - Update the Free Software Foundation address (Richard Hughes)

Version 2.29.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2010-01-04

* Translations
 - Added German help translation (Christian Kirbach)
 - Added Slovenian translation (Matej Urbančič)
 - Added Spanish translation (Jorge González)
 - Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation (Flamarion Jorge)
 - Updated British English translation (Bruce Cowan)
 - Updated Danish translation (Joe Hansen)
 - Updated French translation (Claude Paroz)
 - Updated German translation (Christian Kirbach)
 - Updated German translation (Mario Blättermann)
 - Updated Russian translation (Alexandre Prokoudine)
 - Updated Slovenian translation (Andrej Žnidaršič)

* New Features:
 - Add two elements in the UI, for RGB and CMYK working spaces (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a TRC curve to the profile display (Richard Hughes)
 - Add LCMS as a hard build-time dependency (Richard Hughes)
 - Add PackageKit integration so we can install shared-color-targets
(Richard Hughes)
 - Offer to install ArgyllCMS if it is not installed, and the user
wants to calibrate (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a simple GcmImage class that makes embedded color profiles
'just work' (Richard Hughes)
 - Import ICC profiles when dragged and dropped on the prefs capplet
(Richard Hughes)
 - Linkify the copyright and manufacturer strings in the profile
dialog (Richard Hughes)
 - Add a PolicyKit rule for the system-wide profiles install (Richard Hughes)
 - Load the system-wide default if it has been installed (Richard Hughes)

* Bugfix:
 - Fix the reference file import filter (Pascal de Bruijn)
 - Also evaluate /usr/local/bin when searching for Argyll tools. Fixes
#605552 (Pascal de Bruijn)
 - Add an icon for a colorspace conversion profile (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix the help file installation so that yelp recognizes our help
file (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not install the demo ICC files, and instead depend on the
shared-color-profiles package (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix using profiles with VCGT formulas encoded in them (Richard Hughes)
 - If getting the illuminants failed, try running it through the
profile (Richard Hughes)
 - Use strftime rather than our own hand-rolled function (Richard Hughes)
 - Show the TRC curves in the UI, rather than the vcgt curves (Richard Hughes)
 - Make gcm-dump-edid more useful by showing parsed data if available
(Richard Hughes)
 - Use as much of the EDID as we can when generating device IDs. Fixes
#605013 (Richard Hughes)
 - Add an experimental user-calibrate wizard, which the user can use
when there is no calibration hardware available (Richard Hughes)
 - Use the hardware calibration device in the profile name. Fixes
#605259 (Richard Hughes)
 - Sanitize the basename in GcmCalibrate when set. Fixes #605348
(Richard Hughes)
 - Use the ORIGINATOR tag in the it8 file to specify a device prefix
for the device calibration. Fixes #605259 (Richard Hughes)
 - Move the device matching from a hard-coded list to a set of udev
rules (Richard Hughes)
 - Properly detect broken dispcal output. Fixes #605838 (Richard Hughes)

Version 2.29.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2009-12-07

* Translations
 - Add Russian translation (Alexandre Prokoudine)
 - Add British English translation (Bruce Cowan)
 - Add Indonesian translation (Andika Triwidada)
 - Add French translation (Claude Paroz)
 - Add Swedish translation (Daniel Nylander)
 - Add Brazilian Portuguese translation (Flamarion Jorge)
 - Add Lithuanian translation (Gintautas Miliauskas)
 - Add German translation (Hendrik Brandt)
 - Add Danish translation (Joe Hansen)
 - Add Spanish translation (Jorge González)
 - Add Norwegian bokmål translation (Kjartan Maraas)
 - Add Thai translation (Phondanai Khanti)
 - Add Polish translation (Piotr Drąg)
 - Add Estonian translation (Priit Laes, Mattias Põldaru)
 - Add Tamil translation (vasudeven)
 - Add Russian user guide translation (Alexandre Prokoudine)
 - Add Indonesian user guide translation (Andika Triwidada)

* New Features:
 - Add gcm-import, a helper to allow double clicking on ICC profiles to import
   them (Richard Hughes)
 - Add gcm-prefs, a utility to assign profiles to devices, examine profiles, and
   set session-wide defaults (Richard Hughes)
 - Add gcm-session, a dbus-activated session daemon for applications to get the
   profiles for a device, or device class and to get session-wide defaults.
   It exits when no longer used to save resources. (Richard Hughes)
 - Add gcm-self-test, a self test framework that tests GCM
functionality (Richard Hughes)
 - Add gcm-apply, a simple utility to just set (or reset) display
profiles (Richard Hughes)
 - Add gcm-inspect, a debugging utility to inspect the profiles set in the
   session (Richard Hughes)
 - Add gcm-dump-edid, a utility to dump the EDID to disk for debugging
(Richard Hughes)
 - Add gcm-dump-profile, a utility to dump the ICC profile to the
screen (Richard Hughes)
 - Add some simple man pages and help document (Richard Hughes)
 - Add ArgyllCMS support to generate device profiles (Richard Hughes)
 - Add color calibration hardware auto-detection (Richard Hughes)
 - Add code to set the _ICC_PROFILE atom per-output and also
per-screen (Richard Hughes)
 - Add some pre-calibration steps for external displays (Pascal de Bruijn)
 - Add hardware support for gphoto supported cameras (Richard Hughes)
 - Add hardware support for SANE suppoerted scanners (Richard Hughes)
 - Add hardware support for video4linux supported video devices (Richard Hughes)
 - Add hardware support for XRandR supported displays (Richard Hughes)
 - Add hardware support for hplip supported printers (Richard Hughes)
 - Add CIE widget to display visual data about different profiles
(Richard Hughes)
 - Use the system DMI data to better itentify internal LCD panels
(Richard Hughes)
 - Parse the EDID to get a better device description for displays
(Richard Hughes)
 - Make the list orders predictable by setting a sort string (Richard Hughes)

* Bugfix:
 - Use XDG directory to store data (Baptiste Mille-Mathias)
 - Remove markup from GTKBuilder translatable strings (Claude Paroz)
 - Update bluish.icc title (Lars Tore Gustavsen, Pascal de Bruijn)
 - Enable adding xrandr devices with no EDID (Martin Szulecki)
 - Avoid reporting a (false) failure on first import (Stephane Delcroix)
 - Fix the message-received cb signature (Stephane Delcroix)
 - Fix up numerous small bugs prior to first release (Richard Hughes)
 - Look for the debian-named argyllcms binaries first (Richard Hughes)
 - Set the brightness to 100% on internal LCD panels before we generate a
   output profile (Richard Hughes)