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Month: May, 2008

F-Spot 0.4.4 and gio-sharp

30 May, 2008 (14:54) | General | 5 comments

Recent F-Spot 0.4.4 introduced a dependency on gtk-sharp-2.12-2, due to changes in GNOME 2.22 which caused the CDExport not to work anymore.
Some people are having problems compiling the latest F-Spot due to this missing package.
Ubuntu Hardy users can add RubenV’s PPA repository and install the latest gtk-sharp2.
OpenSuSE users can find updated gtk-sharp2 [...]

F-Spot “Springtime” released!

28 May, 2008 (23:17) | General | No comments

F-Spot 0.4.4 codename springtime has been released! From the NEWS file:

various FullScreen enhancements: fading widgets, snapped on screen edges, …
rating with hotkeys: use Alt-0 to Alt-5 in browse or edit mode to rate
reduce startup time by ~40%, depending on your db size
push back the “sort tag by popularity” feature removed on 0.4.3.1
choose the theme you [...]

GSoC started!

28 May, 2008 (09:55) | Edit, General | 2 comments

Finally, Google Summer of Code 2008 started (few days ago, even)!
F-Spot was lucky enough to get all the three projects accepted, so we’ll hopefully have some very nice improvements for enjoying our summer vacation’s photos!
In summary:

RubenV will be working on the sidebar, one-touch edits, pluggable editors. Ref bug #441060.
Apart will be working on DPAP support, [...]