14 DAY TRIAL // We’ve reported the other day that the GNOME development team is working hard these days on the forthcoming GNOME 3.16 desktop environment, due for release on March 25, 2015. This will be a major update to the controversial desktop, bringing a number of new features, updated components, as well a bugfixes. GNOME Photos will be part of GNOME 3.16 as the default application for viewing and organizing photos, with the ability to upload them to social networks.
GNOME Photos 3.16 Beta 1 has been officially announced today, February 20, bringing updated translations (see below) and assorted bugfixes and improvements, among which we can mention documentation updates, use of symbolic icon for the High Contrast theme, added basic debugging infrastructure, as well as the removal of the deprecated gnome-common dependency.
In addition, the GNOME Photos 3.16 Beta release fixes the stagnant next and previous buttons, suppresses the -Waggregate-return argument on base-item, uses edge-reached signal instead of edge-overshot for the view-container, and fixes the ugly transition when opening photos from the grid. Another interesting feature is that the application has now been ported to GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) 0.3.
Last but not least, several translations have been updated in this first Beta release of the upcoming GNOME Photos 3.16 application, including Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Spanish, Slovak, Galician, Turkish, Greek, Basque, Norwegian bokmal, Slovenian, and Hebrew. You can download and test the GNOME Photos 3.16.0 Beta 1 software right now from Softpedia, but keep in mind that it is an unstable release that should not be deployed on production machines.