Yes - it's great that 0.7 is out the door! This was the first Shotwell release where a number of substantial contributions came from people outside Yorba. I'd particularly like to thank the following contributors:
- Bruno Girin implemented importing from F-Spot. This was a significant feature and required numerous patch iterations, so many thanks to Bruno for his patience working through the various issues which arose. By the way, Bruno recently wrote a great blog post about contributing to Shotwell: http://brunogirin.blogspot.com/2010/08/contributing-to-shotwell.html . - Philip Beam wrote the code that displays icons in the sidebar. This is a very nice visual improvement. - Marcel Stimberg implemented tag autocompletion. His final patch came only in the last week before the 0.7 release - I'm glad this made it! - Andrew Higginson improved some of our icons and sent a patch that makes Shotwell use more stock icons, which helps our visual consistency. I'd like to make one clarification about the list of new features below. Shotwell 0.7 does scan your library files at startup to see which files are missing, but will not yet update thumbnails if files have changed externally. We had code to do this in the trunk for a while, but pulled it before the 0.7 release because we weren't satisfied with Shotwell's startup performance (which is very important to us) in the case where many files had changed externally. I'm hopeful this feature will return to trunk before too long. adam On 08/20/2010 06:33 PM, Lucas Beeler wrote: > Yorba has released Shotwell 0.7.0, a major update to our digital photo > manager. This release includes a host of new features, such as: > > * Migration support for F-Spot users: Shotwell can import photos directly > from your F-Spot library, preserving tags and ratings. > > * Photos can be rated on a 1-5 star scale or marked as rejected. A filter > button supports viewing only photos of a specified rating or better. > > * A new Last Import page in the sidebar gives you instant access to your > most recently imported photo roll. > > * Sidebar functionality and appearance have been improved with new icons > and inline renaming. > > * Shotwell scans your library files at startup, looking for changes. > Maintains library consistency when working with photos in other > applications. > > * Numerous bug fixes and translation updates. > > We highly recommend that all Shotwell users upgrade. > > Yorba would like to thank all of our bug testers and translators, > without whom this release would not have been possible. > > You can download a source tarball from the Shotwell home page at: > http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/ > > Binaries for Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick users will be available on > Yorba's Launchpad PPA (https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa) > within a few days. > > -- Lucas Beeler > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
