[gthumb-list] gthumb 2.13.1 released



gthumb 2.13.1 is now available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gthumb/2.13/

3b124e1b3ae5a3496d9392c11052792e5168535b849756b53cefd9d7b1e8e7b9 gthumb-2.13.1.tar.bz2 5fa766d6965a5a4c6a26f118fa661aaaa8a95c14f1ba5cd3f4d9244e7386cb8d gthumb-2.13.1.tar.gz

This is a the first development release of the 2.13 series leading
to the next major release 2.14.0. As a development release this version can have many bugs and users are not encouraged to update to this version if they expect to get the same stability of the 2.12 series.

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 2.12.2 to 2.13.1
================================================

New features and user visible changes:

* New tools: contact sheet creator, find duplicates.
* Print: allow to specify the number of rows and columns; allow to
  specify the header and the footer of the pages.
* Added "Copy to" and "Move to" commands to copy or move files to
  another directory.  You can still accomplish the some task using the
  Copy/Cut/Paste commands.
* Re-added the 2.10 semi-trasparent property box in fullscreen mode.
  The 'i' key shows/hides the property box.
* Re-added ability to view file comments in the file list.
* Preferences dialog: added option to specify the file extension to
  use when creating jpeg and tiff files.
* Added an histogram view to the sidebar.
* Added ability to drag files with the middle mouse button to allow
  the user to choose the action to perform.
* Allow to rename the files in a catalog.
* Added ability to move catalogs with drag&drop.
* Change date tool: added the ability to shift dates by any offset.
  (Thomas Bouffon) (#632298)
* Edit metadata dialog: added 'Iptc.Application2.ProvinceState' field
  to the 'Other' tab (Matthew Geier) (#630279)
* Convert and resize: allow to specify a destination folder even when
  the images are from a catalog.
* Video player: allow to change playback speed when paused.
* Slideshow: show the paused sign centered on the screen and hide it
  after a second.
* Crop tool: added a new grid mode to view the center lines of the
  current selection.
* Added ability to search and filter files with a single tag. (#633884)
* Always use the same height for the thumbnails.  This allows to avoid
  scroll jumps when loading the thumbnails listed before the currently
  visible ones.
* Changed the thumbnail style: use rounded corners.
* Added a comment filter that ignores automatic camera comments such as
  "SONY DSC", "OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA", etc.

Bugs fixed:

* Do not check if there is a thumbnail for thumbnail files. (#635948)
* Correctly activate the default extensions when started the first
  time. (#635475)
* Lack of the "selected" word in status bar. (#628098)
* Compile with -fPIC -DPIC.  Re-applied patch from bug #572685.
* Repaired sm-client support. (Josef Schmeisser)
* Added focus stealing prevention code when launching an application.
* Make PgUp/PgDown navigation work when started in fullscreen mode.
  (#642848)
* Do not add a entry point if already present. (#627153)
* The same bugfixes of the 2.12 series.

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 7th, 2011

Paolo Bacchilega



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