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GTKRawGallery Changelog

What's new in GTKRawGallery 0.9.9

Nov 15, 2013
  • Included Dropbox SDK
  • New Webkit based facebook, Flickr and Dropbox authentication dialog;
  • Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Album and Dropbox uploaders with multiuser support;
  • Improved crop tool;
  • Updated messages.pot;
  • Italian translation;
  • Background music is stopped when slideshow is paused;
  • Added image size on thumbnail tooltips;
  • Fix broken dropbox uploader;
  • Fix facebook and Flickr authentication errors;
  • Fix display error on svg files;
  • Fix missing thumbnail border on gallery zoom out.

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.7 (Feb 25, 2012)

  • Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa Web Albums publisher.
  • Vignette removal.
  • A new Dark theme.
  • Full-screen gallery view.

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.6 (Sep 27, 2010)

  • Color Management based on ICC profile;
  • Basic ICC profile inspector;
  • Ports to Python 2.6 (2.5 no long supported!);
  • PIL is deprecated! Added a check for numpy support on pygtk in order to replace PIL on Magickwand to GDKPixbuf transformation with increased performance. It also permits to eliminate the dependence from PIL;
  • Gettext support;
  • Provided messages.pot file for translators (read TRANSLATORS file for more information);
  • Adds support for .bay, .bmq, .cs1, .dc2, .fff, .k25, .mos, .rdc, .sr2 and .rw2 raw formats;
  • Checks for dcraw lcms support;
  • Updated Pythonmagickwand and removed max version block;
  • Possibility to send photos by mail;
  • Possibility to store photos on CD/DVD (requires cdrtools);
  • Possibility to rename multiple files with pattern;
  • Print support;
  • Exif, iptc and xmp metadata write support;
  • New Tag Manager design with advanced metadata editor and custom templates;
  • New "Clear keywords" button was added to the Tag Manager;
  • Tag Manager multilanguage support;
  • Tag Manager was switched to the main thread;
  • Metadata informations were separated by group and customizable "Favorites" tab was added;
  • Some shortcuts were changed;
  • Smaller thumbnail size option provided;
  • More image effects (charcoal, sketch, tint, posterize, spread, negate, radial blur, motion blur, adaptive blur);
  • Curves;
  • White balance;
  • Color temperature adjustment;
  • White balance preset editor!
  • Auto white balance presets (looks for presets stored on metadata);
  • Synchronize database tool can recognize keywords stored as list type by Exiftool;
  • Improved cache control;
  • New About dialog;
  • Faster Directory Tree. It was rewritten for best performance;
  • Error Log dialog allowing to read debugging information;
  • Removed Exif tab on settings dialog;
  • Removed Fontchooser on settings dialog to avoid display issues with font's unsupported characters;
  • GIO File Monitor for directory tree auto-updating;
  • Exiftool interface was rewritten using the more convenient JSON format;
  • Faster Synchronize database tool;
  • Batch manager improvements;
  • Batch queue , settings, albums and templates are stored as soon as modified to save them from improvvise crashes;
  • New "sort by date" gallery option;
  • Improved dependencies control;
  • Statistics were moved near histogram;
  • Added progressbar during raw extraction;
  • Added uninstall-gtkrawgallery launcher;
  • Added Disconnect togglebutton on dcraw GUI;
  • Added Rotation option on dcraw GUI;
  • "Default Colors" button on preferences now restores rc style colors;
  • Fast gallery refresh when reducing thumbnail size, on delete, move functions and layout switching;
  • Other GUI improvements;
  • Copy and Move functions were protected from insufficient disk space error;
  • Fix the issue of different behaviour with some image effects between scaled and full sized image;
  • Fix a bug on X3F and DNG files with embedded thumbnails as .ppm format;
  • Fix a functional error on synchronize database tool;
  • Fix a bug on slideshow background color;
  • Fix a bug on layout 3 image label updating;
  • Fix selection delay;
  • Fix desktop file errors;
  • Fix loss of keywords when album is renamed;
  • Fix save button's sensitivity setting on image effects;
  • Fix wrong image size on statusbar with some raw formats;

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.5 (Jul 19, 2009)

  • Updated to dcraw 8.94 new 16 bit with gamma option permitting to start the workflow from a gamma corrected 16 bit depth image (thank you Mr. Coffin!);
  • Setted 16 bit depth as default;
  • Red eye removal;
  • Lens distortion correction;
  • Oil Paint effect;
  • Speckle noise reduction;
  • Shadows/Highlights correction;
  • Updated loader.py (renamed gtkrg_loader.py) to load DrawingWand;
  • Updated setup.py to first remove old data files;
  • Updated Pythonmagickwand to Imagemagick 6.5.4
  • Removed deprecated from Pythonmagickwand;
  • Added DrawingWand wrapper and other needed functions to Pythonmagickwand;
  • Fixed inverted size for rotated images on scale function;
  • Fixed "ImportError" for loader.py module due to the sys.prefix "bug";
  • Fixed a bug on tag manager due to the missing selection control;
  • Fixed a bug in add_missed_tags function.

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.4 (Jun 8, 2009)

  • Standard setup provided;
  • Uninstaller provided;
  • Command line access;
  • Sox dependence now is optional;
  • Added a GUI written with Tkinter to report missing dependencies;
  • Added library version control;
  • Added gamma correction to Dcraw GUI;
  • Added Median filter to Dcraw GUI (A slow function that can be an effective remedy against iso-noise);
  • New multi-threaded thumbnail generator for faster gallery loading;
  • Possibility to open files and folders dropped from window manager;
  • Desktop Entry specification compatibility permits to right click a file and open with/gtkrawgallery,
  • and associating raw images as all common image formats to be opened with GTKRawGallery;
  • New Sqlite3 dependence;
  • Album preview autorotation;
  • Fast tag search with database support;
  • Synchronize database tool (see README);
  • Metadata writing now is optional;
  • New "Write metadata" button on tag panel;
  • Metadata processing was switched to a separate thread
  • and progressbar window can be minimized;
  • "Clear database" button was added to the configuration dialog;
  • Image tags were added on thumbnail tooltip;
  • Keywords tag was added to exif list;
  • Sorted directory tree;
  • Hidden folders access;
  • Updated Pythonmagickwand to Imagemagick 6.5.3
  • Thumbnail quality was improved;
  • Smoother crop selection (rewritten with cairo);
  • thumbnails loading was switched to a separate thread to unblock details window;
  • Opening folder or album during gallery loading was unblocked;
  • Image zooming was unabled also in not full size workflow mode;
  • Temporary directories were made into the system /tmp folder;
  • Settings database was stored into the /home/$user/.GTKRawGallery directory;
  • Fixed "trembling" bug on image dragging;
  • Fixed a bug on grep_image_size function;
  • Fixed a bug on rename function when overwrite dialog is called;
  • Fixed "NULL size bug" on scale function;
  • Fixed autorotation bug when "cache thumbnail" option was unchecked;
  • Added thumbnail modification control on thumbnail generator;
  • Delete function was rewritten to avoid gallery reloading on layout 3
  • and quickly deleting wrong photos;
  • New "delete" button was added on details window;
  • The "remove from album" menuitems were removed and unified with "delete" function;
  • Added shortcuts;
  • Removed Fullscreen and Slideshow toolbuttons from details window;
  • Smoother slideshow's fading transition;
  • Details window shrinkage was unblocked for TwinView video mode;
  • "wand2pixbuf" function was improved;
  • Added exception handlers where needed;
  • Exiftool warning report;
  • Many code optimizations and fixes.

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.3 (Mar 9, 2009)

  • Updated PythonMagickWand to newer Imagemagick versions.

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.2 (Oct 21, 2008)

  • Updated PythonMagickWand to newer Imagemagick versions.

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.1 (Oct 18, 2008)

  • Fixed tollbutton sensitivity bug on main window.

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9 (Oct 15, 2008)

  • New detailed and full featured Dcraw GUI with fine controls and automatic preview;
  • Image histogram: a very important tool on digital photography;
  • Color enhance tools;
  • Image effects and transform tools;
  • New Imagemagick dependence to permit a non destructive workflow;
  • Splash screen;
  • Batch Processor;
  • Tagging;
  • New over and under-exposed pixels buttons was added;
  • Preserved metadata on "save_as_png" function;
  • Useful "move", "copy", "rename" and "delete" functions was added to the browser;
  • Detailed thumbnail tooltip;
  • Thumbnail caching was optimized;
  • Image handling with left mouse button;
  • Automatic thumbnails scrolling on layouts 3 and 4;
  • Zoom percentage on statusbar;
  • Fixed "Open with Gimp" function bug;
  • Fixed "dcraw options" function bug;
  • Fixed "raw image dimensions" bug on statusbar and exif panel;
  • Fixed "clear cache" bug;
  • Autorotation code was optimized.