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Month: June, 2008

Light-speed tagging!

13 June, 2008 (20:48) | Edit, Tags | No comments

No big news on F-Spot’s SVN side. GSoC projects still have to take off, due to universities exam deadlines, so the source is almost stuck, except for some bug fixing.
Almost stuck!
Our big hero Sde committed today a small but very nice patch which will sensibly speed up your photo tagging. Maybe it’s not yet light-speed [...]

New service extension point

5 June, 2008 (23:51) | General, extensions | No comments

A new extension point has been recently introduced in F-Spot.
It’s named Service and will allow developers to introduce custom services for interfacing F-Spot with other programs.
A typical example is the Beagle Notifier, which has been moved out as extension. This addin can be used to understand how this new extension point work. Another example can [...]

A step ahead in duplicate detection

5 June, 2008 (15:25) | General, Import | No comments

Duplicate detection is one of the most requested features actually missing in F-Spot. The bug open for this request (#169646) is three years old, and a lot of people added their vote for this to get included.
Beside the fact that some should understand what an opensource voluntary project is and how it works, finally Thomas [...]