The road to 0.6.1 – bye bye Tao
F-Spot 0.6.0 is not very old yet, but the team is working hard on a new release already. The main goal is addressing bugs left over here and there.
Some of the most annoying bugs were related to the slideshow. F-Spot has so far relied on the Tao library to render the animation of the, sometimes called, diaporama.
Unfortunately the embedded library was quite old. Which could even be the cause of most of the problems. Instead of upgrading, our proud Stephane decided to move to Cairo animation.
You may notice that now animations are fewer than before. I like to consider it a feature more than a bug, because now animations are extendable! Yes, you can write your own transition for F-Spot! You can see an example in the Dissolve transition.
Obviously, along with that, the screensaver configuration lost in 0.6 is now back with it’s own dialog, now with timing customization.
More news to come… Happy hacking!