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GTKRawGallery Changelog

What's new in GTKRawGallery 0.9.9 Alpha

Sep 13, 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 0.9.8 (Apr 17, 2013)

  • DropBox uploader;
  • manual tagging;
  • Improved Exiftool interface. Implemented the batch mode to quickly retrieving metadata without the overhead of restarting the interpreter at every call.
  • The curve tool was ported to Cairo avoiding random crashes due to gtk.curve issues. Now curve is stable, faster and portable.
  • Possibility to save dcraw presets;
  • New history tab on development window for best workflow control with possibility to save styles for batch conversion and apply styles to photos;
  • New "Tags" tab on main window left panel for faster tag filtering and manual tagging;
  • Directory tree and album list have been switched to single click mode;
  • Advance Metadata Editor improvements;
  • Raw images are no long previewed on development window metadata tabs, but always extracted;
  • Development window fullscreen mode;
  • Drag and Drop from gallery to album list and tag list on left panel;
  • Smaller thumbnail size provided;
  • Gtk warnings no long logged;
  • Fix a bug on facebook login;
  • Fix a bug with non ascii names on sort_by_date function;

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.71 Alpha (Apr 3, 2012)

  • Faster start time (about 20% of 0.9.7 version)
  • Fix "\fullsize_image.tiff': No such file or directory @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2589" on apply_effect method
  • Fix broken pythonmagickwand package

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.7 Alpha (Feb 24, 2012)

  • I am pleased tannounce that Windows porting of GTKRawGallery was completed.
  • A Portable version will be released on the project page.
  • License was updated tGNU GPL v.3;
  • GUI appearance based on gtkrc style file and a new dark theme was provided as default;
  • Facebook, Flickr and Picasa Web Albums photpublisher;
  • Adds support for 3fr, ari, cap, iiq, eip, dcs, drf, mef, nrw, pxn, r3d, raw, rw1, rwz image formats;
  • Dcraw extensions are editable;
  • Possibility tmanage photos on fullscreen mode;
  • Sorted tag list;
  • Multiple tag search;
  • Print dialog with embedded preview;
  • exif.py was updated timprove autorotation function;
  • Square thumbnails with rounded corners and minimized column spacing option;
  • Reverse function appliable tall gallery sort modes;
  • Color profile information now is retrieved by Exiftool;
  • Copy and move operations can be stopped;
  • New fullscreen gallery mode;
  • New development window split view;
  • Vignette removal tool;
  • Slideshow can be paused;
  • Tkinter nlong required;
  • messages.pot was updated;
  • Fix menù icon size;
  • Fix locale settings;
  • Fix a bug in zoom functions;
  • Fix some portability issues;
  • Fix broken barrel distortion removal for imagemagick version >= 6.7.0;

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.61 Alpha (Feb 24, 2012)

  • GTK UI was ported tthe GTKBuilder format. Libglade nlong required;
  • Message Dialogs were created at runtime;
  • liblcms was included in the package tpermit the Profile Inspector twork on systems with lcms2 installed too;
  • Splash screen progressbar;
  • New "Reset Workflow" toolbutton;
  • New Print toolbutton on development window and ability tprint a modified raw image directly;
  • Protection from undecodable image errors;
  • New "Sort by size" gallery option;
  • New square thumbnail option;
  • Fast thumbnail loading on Mail client and Burner;
  • Burn is disabled when ndevice found;
  • Fix some deadlocks on Curve tool (requires feedbacks);
  • Fix "Invalid Text Buffer Iterator" bug on ErrorLog class;
  • Fix random segmentation fault on gallery loading;
  • Fix not working autosave in save_workflow method;
  • Fix some portability issues;
  • Fix some code not thread-safe;

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.6 Alpha (Feb 24, 2012)

  • Color Management based on ICC profile;
  • Basic ICC profile inspector;
  • Ports tPython 2.6 (2.5 nlong supported!);
  • PIL is deprecated! Added a check for numpy support on pygtk in order treplace PIL on Magickwand tGDKPixbuf transformation
  • with increased performance. It alspermits teliminate 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 tsend photos by mail;
  • Possibility tstore photos on CD/DVD (requires cdrtools);
  • Possibility trename 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 tthe Tag Manager;
  • Tag Manager multilanguage support;
  • Tag Manager was switched tthe 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!
  • Autwhite 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 tread debugging information;
  • Removed Exif tab on settings dialog;
  • Removed Fontchooser on settings dialog tavoid display issues with font's unsupported characters;
  • GIFile 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 tsave 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 Alpha (Feb 24, 2012)

  • Updated tdcraw 8.94 new 16 bit with gamma option permitting tstart 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) tload DrawingWand;
  • Updated setup.py tfirst remove old data files;
  • Updated Pythonmagickwand tImagemagick 6.5.4
  • Removed deprecated from Pythonmagickwand;
  • Added DrawingWand wrapper and other needed functions tPythonmagickwand;
  • Fixed inverted size for rotated images on scale function;
  • Fixed "ImportError" for loader.py module due tthe sys.prefix "bug";
  • Fixed a bug on tag manager due tthe missing selection control;
  • Fixed a bug in add_missed_tags function;

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.4 Alpha (Feb 24, 2012)

  • Standard setup provided;
  • Uninstaller provided;
  • Command line access;
  • Sox dependence now is optional;
  • Added a GUI written with Tkinter treport missing dependencies;
  • Added library version control;
  • Added gamma correction tDcraw GUI;
  • Added Median filter tDcraw GUI (A slow function that can be an effective remedy against iso-noise);
  • New multi-threaded thumbnail generator for faster gallery loading;
  • Possibility topen files and folders dropped from window manager;
  • Desktop Entry specification compatibility permits tright click a file and open with/gtkrawgallery,
  • and associating raw images as all common image formats tbe 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 ta separate thread
  • and progressbar window can be minimized;
  • "Clear database" button was added tthe configuration dialog;
  • Image tags were added on thumbnail tooltip;
  • Keywords tag was added texif list;
  • Sorted directory tree;
  • Hidden folders access;
  • Updated Pythonmagickwand tImagemagick 6.5.3
  • Thumbnail quality was improved;
  • Smoother crop selection (rewritten with cairo);
  • thumbnails loading was switched ta separate thread tunblock details window;
  • Opening folder or album during gallery loading was unblocked;
  • Image zooming was unabled alsin not full size workflow mode;
  • Temporary directories were made intthe system /tmp folder;
  • Settings database was stored intthe /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 tavoid 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 videmode;
  • "wand2pixbuf" function was improved;
  • Added exception handlers where needed;
  • Exiftool warning report;
  • Many code optimizations and fixes;

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.3 Alpha (Feb 24, 2012)

  • Updated PythonMagickWand to newer Imagemagick versions;

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.2 Alpha (Feb 24, 2012)

  • Updated PythonMagickWand to newer Imagemagick versions;

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9.1 Alpha (Feb 24, 2012)

  • Fixed tollbutton sensitivity bug on main window;

New in GTKRawGallery 0.9 Alpha (Feb 24, 2012)

  • 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 tpermit 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 tthe 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;

New in GTKRawGallery 0.6 Alpha (Feb 24, 2012)

  • Deleted PIL dependence porting tgtk+ 2.10
  • Thumbnails cache costumizable;
  • Added a new layout;
  • Added thumbnail border costumizable;
  • Added a fading transition in the slideshow;
  • Background player in the slideshow;
  • Album preview costumizable on left panel;
  • Total size calculus;
  • Cache level calculus;
  • Automatic columns number calculus;
  • Sorted folders on directory tree with autoexpansion at the last visited path;
  • New Default colors button;
  • New "Raw Preview" buttons on "Save As" dialog and Details window;
  • New "Save as" and "Exit" buttons on Details window;
  • New "Default Settings" button on Options dialog;
  • New toolbar buttons;
  • Fixed "Cannot rotate 48bit images" bug porting tgtk+ 2.10;
  • Added input control in some dialogs;