GTKRawGallery
Photo Management

GTKRawGallery changelog

Version 0.9.9

  • Dropbox SDK;
  • New Webkit based facebook, Flickr and Dropbox authentication dialog;
  • Facebook, Flickr and Dropbox publisher with multiuser support;
  • Improved crop tool;
  • Updated messages.pot;
  • Italian translation;
  • Background music is stopped when slideshow is paused;
  • Added image size on thumbnail tooltips;
  • Fix broken dropbox uploader;
  • Fix facebook and Flickr authentication errors;
  • Fix display error on svg files;
  • Fix missing thumbnail border on gallery zoom out;

Version 0.9.8

  • First Windows package released;
  • DropBox uploader;
  • Manual tagging;
  • Improved Exiftool interface. Implemented the batch mode to quickly retrieving metadata without the overhead of restarting the interpreter at every call;
  • The curve tool was ported to Cairo avoiding random crashes due to gtk.curve issues. Now curve is stable, faster and portable;
  • Possibility to save dcraw presets;
  • Curve presets;
  • New history tab on development window for best workflow control with possibility to save styles for batch conversion and apply styles to photos;
  • New "Tags" tab on main window left panel for faster tag filtering and manual tagging;
  • Directory tree and album list have been switched to single click mode;
  • Advance Metadata Editor improvements;
  • Raw images are no long previewed on development window metadata tabs, but always extracted;
  • Development window fullscreen mode;
  • Drag and Drop from gallery to album list and tag list on left panel;
  • Smaller thumbnail size provided;
  • Gtk warnings no long logged;
  • Fix a bug on facebook login;
  • Fix a bug with non ascii names on sort_by_date function;

Version 0.9.71

  • Faster start time (about 20% of 0.9.7 version);
  • Fix "\fullsize_image.tiff': No such file or directory @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2589" on apply_effect method;
  • Fix broken pythonmagickwand package;

Version 0.9.7

  • I am pleased to announce that Windows porting of GTKRawGallery was completed. A Portable version will be released on the project page.
  • License was updated to GNU GPL v.3;
  • GUI appearance based on gtkrc style file and a new dark theme was provided as default;
  • Facebook, Flickr and Picasa Web Albums photo publisher;
  • Adds support for 3fr, ari, cap, iiq, eip, dcs, drf, mef, nrw, pxn, r3d, raw, rw1, rwz image formats;
  • Dcraw extensions are editable;
  • Possibility to manage photos on fullscreen mode;
  • Sorted tag list;
  • Multiple tag search;
  • Print dialog with embedded preview;
  • exif.py was updated to improve autorotation function;
  • Square thumbnails with rounded corners and minimized column spacing option;
  • Reverse function appliable to all gallery sort modes;
  • Color profile information now is retrieved by Exiftool;
  • Copy and move operations can be stopped;
  • New fullscreen gallery mode;
  • New development window split view;
  • Vignette removal tool;
  • Slideshow can be paused;
  • Tkinter no long required;
  • messages.pot was updated;
  • Fix menĂ¹ icon size;
  • Fix locale settings;
  • Fix a bug in zoom functions;
  • Fix some portability issues;
  • Fix broken barrel distortion removal for imagemagick version >= 6.7.0;

Version 0.9.61

  • GTK UI was ported to the GTKBuilder format. Libglade no long required;
  • Message Dialogs were created at runtime;
  • liblcms was included in the package to permit the Profile Inspector to work on systems with lcms2 installed too;
  • Splash screen progressbar;
  • New "Reset Workflow" toolbutton;
  • New Print toolbutton on development window and ability to print a modified raw image directly;
  • Protection from undecodable image errors;
  • New "Sort by size" gallery option;
  • New square thumbnail option;
  • Fast thumbnail loading on Mail client and Burner;
  • Burn is disabled when no device found;
  • Fix some deadlocks on Curve tool (requires feedbacks);
  • Fix "Invalid Text Buffer Iterator" bug on ErrorLog class;
  • Fix random segmentation fault on gallery loading;
  • Fix not working autosave in save_workflow method;
  • Fix some portability issues;
  • Fix some code not thread-safe;

Version 0.9.6

  • Color Management based on ICC profile;
  • Basic ICC profile inspector;
  • Ports to Python 2.6 (2.5 no long supported!);
  • PIL is deprecated! Added a check for numpy support on pygtk in order to replace PIL on Magickwand to GDKPixbuf transformation with increased performance. It also permits to eliminate the dependence from PIL;
  • Gettext support;
  • Provided messages.pot file for translators (read TRANSLATORS file for more information);
  • Adds support for .bay, .bmq, .cs1, .dc2, .fff, .k25, .mos, .rdc, .sr2 and .rw2 raw formats;
  • Checks for dcraw lcms support;
  • Updated Pythonmagickwand and removed max version block;
  • Possibility to send photos by mail;
  • Possibility to store photos on CD/DVD (requires cdrtools);
  • Possibility to rename multiple files with pattern;
  • Print support;
  • Exif, iptc and xmp metadata write support;
  • New Tag Manager design with advanced metadata editor and custom templates;
  • New "Clear keywords" button was added to the Tag Manager;
  • Tag Manager multilanguage support;
  • Tag Manager was switched to the main thread;
  • Metadata informations were separated by group and customizable "Favorites" tab was added;
  • Some shortcuts were changed;
  • Smaller thumbnail size option provided;
  • More image effects (charcoal, sketch, tint, posterize, spread, negate, radial blur, motion blur, adaptive blur);
  • Curves;
  • White balance;
  • Color temperature adjustment;
  • White balance preset editor!
  • Auto white balance presets (looks for presets stored on metadata);
  • Synchronize database tool can recognize keywords stored as list type by Exiftool;
  • Improved cache control;
  • New About dialog;
  • Faster Directory Tree. It was rewritten for best performance;
  • Error Log dialog allowing to read debugging information;
  • Removed Exif tab on settings dialog;
  • Removed Fontchooser on settings dialog to avoid display issues with font's unsupported characters;
  • GIO File Monitor for directory tree auto-updating;
  • Exiftool interface was rewritten using the more convenient JSON format;
  • Faster Synchronize database tool;
  • Batch manager improvements;
  • Batch queue , settings, albums and templates are stored as soon as modified to save them from improvvise crashes;
  • New "sort by date" gallery option;
  • Improved dependencies control;
  • Statistics were moved near histogram;
  • Added progressbar during raw extraction;
  • Added uninstall-gtkrawgallery launcher;
  • Added Disconnect togglebutton on dcraw GUI;
  • Added Rotation option on dcraw GUI;
  • "Default Colors" button on preferences now restores rc style colors;
  • Fast gallery refresh when reducing thumbnail size, on delete, move functions and layout switching;
  • Other GUI improvements;
  • Copy and Move functions were protected from insufficient disk space error;
  • Fix the issue of different behaviour with some image effects between scaled and full sized image;
  • Fix a bug on X3F and DNG files with embedded thumbnails as .ppm format;
  • Fix a functional error on synchronize database tool;
  • Fix a bug on slideshow background color;
  • Fix a bug on layout 3 image label updating;
  • Fix selection delay;
  • Fix desktop file errors;
  • Fix loss of keywords when album is renamed;
  • Fix save button's sensitivity setting on image effects;
  • Fix wrong image size on statusbar with some raw formats;

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