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The road to 0.6.1 – bye bye Tao

25 August, 2009 (23:40) | General, extensions | No comments

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 [...]

f-spot 0.5.0.1 – Remember the Rubik’s cube

2 October, 2008 (22:52) | Export, extensions, releases | 9 comments

F-Spot 0.5.0 is out since long time, right now. I know I should have posted something before, but… I’m often lazy!
No big news happened in SVN since last post, when I talked about the big features being committed in.
But there’s a (sadly negative) noticeable thing: DPAP support has been excluded from release, not yet being [...]

August is over

3 September, 2008 (21:48) | Edit, General, extensions | 2 comments

August is over, and this mean that also GSoC is over. F-Spot had three projects accepted! So, to resume:

RubenV’s new sidebar is already in SVN. Editors have been splitted too, even if they’re not yet pluggable as extensions they will probably be converted soon.
An extension point for adding custom pages to the sidebar has also [...]

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 [...]