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+NEWS about Dimbola
+==================
+
+Dimbola is a photo management application.
+
+
+Version 0.0.3, 2009-10-24
+-------------------------
+
+NEW STUFF
+
+* Ratings are now shown as actual stars rather than asterisk 
+  characters (*).
+* Tag name editing now happens in the tag hierarchy, rather than
+  in a popup dialog.
+* Photos can be rated with the 0-5 keys in the thumbnail grid and photo
+  views.
+* Default thumbnail size in the grid is now 200 pixels, because liw got
+  tired of having to adjust it every time he started Dimbola.
+* The Escape key returns from full screen mode in the photo window.
+* Control-W closes the photo window.
+
+CHANGED STUFF
+
+* The thumbnail grid and photo views are now switched via the menu.
+  It was too difficult to find a solution for switching between the
+  them in the tabbed interface, without the tabs occasionally getting
+  focus and making things non-deterministic for the user.
+* Netpbm command line tools are no longer used to do image format
+  conversions. Instead, the internal GdkPixbuf routines do that.
+
+PROBLEMS FIXED
+
+* When adding new tags, the tag hierarchy is kept sorted.
+* When tags are renamed or removed, the updates are immediately shown in the
+  photo's tag list, and the search tag list.
+* Photo's tag list is now insensitive when no photo or more than one photo
+  is selected. It can only be used with one selected photo.
+* When bringing up the popup menu in the photo or search tag list, if
+  no tag is selected, the tag under the cursor is selected. The menu's
+  "remove" menu entry is properly sensitive.
+* The "stop" button at the bottom left of the main window is now properly
+  sensitive, and actually does stop background jobs.
+* The "remove tag" button ("-") at the top of the tag hierarchy is properly
+  sensitive.
+* Folder list can now be scrolled.
+* Dialog windows are transient for the main window. This helps the window
+  manager position them properly.
+* Thumbnail grid and photo view have a visual focus indicator and grab the
+  focus when clicked upon.
+
+CODE STUFF
+
+
+Version 0.0.2, 2009-10-11
+-------------------------
+
+This release makes further improvements to code quality, and has
+few user-visible improvements.
+
+NEW STUFF
+
+* Application starts up in maximized mode.
+
+* Tags can now be arranged in a hierarchy, and tags can renamed.
+
+* Folders are now a hierachy as well, the way they are on disk.
+
+* All image file formats supported by dcraw (RAW images) and
+  the installed GTK+ library (other images) are now supported.
+  The import file chooser lets the user choose whether to look
+  at all files, all image files, or just RAW image files.
+
+PROBLEMS FIXED
+
+* Added a build-dependency on markdown. Thanks to Timo Jyrinki.
+
+* Help/News now actually works on the `.deb` package.
+
+* When a tag is removed, the reference to it is also removed from
+  the photos that had it. Previously, if one removed the most recently
+  created tag, then added a new tag, all the photos with the removed
+  tag would get the new tag. Quite confusing.
+
+CODE STUFF
+
+* Plugins may define order of menu entries and sidebar sections they
+  add, using "weights".
+
+* "make check" now assumes a version of CoverageTestRunner that supports
+  --ignore-missing-from. It's available from me.
+
+* All code modules either have a unit test module, or are listed in
+  no-unit-test.txt. CoverageTestRunner will complain if it finds
+  things to be otherwise. Further, all code modules with unit tests
+  have 100% statement coverage, excluding parts of code that are
+  marked explicitly as being outside of coverage testing.
+
+* The thumbnail grid module has been rewritten to be a cleaner 
+  model/view/controller design, and to have tests.
+  
+* Various changes have been made to allow different parts of the code
+  to communicate via signals (see MainWindowController.new_hook, for
+  example), rather than direct method calls. This work is incomplete,
+  and will continue in the future.
+
+* Added Plugin.enable_signal and .disable_signal methods, for easier
+  management of connected signals in plugins.
+
+* All plugins with UI elements now have their own .ui file
+  (foo_plugin.py has foo.ui). This removes further coupling of the
+  core parts (ui.py, grid.py) and the plugins.
+
+* The selected photo's tag list and the search tag list now share code.
+  (See dimbola/taglist.py.)
+
+* Various updates to the HACKING file.
+
+* Now supports Python 2.5, and therefore Debian unstable (sid).
+
+
+Version 0.0.1, 2009-09-24
+-------------------------
+
+This release aims primarily to improve the code so that it is
+easier and more reliable to add new features later. Right now,
+the user interface is a bit of a mess (things are in random
+order in menus or the sidebars), but this will be fixed soon.
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+* Debian packaging now declares a dependency on Python 2.6.
+
+* Canon RAW files are recognized even when the filename suffix is in
+  lower case.
+  
+* Menu entries are now made sensitive or insensitive based on whether
+  the action is doable or not.
+
+* The thumbnail grid's vertical scroll bar now works correctly. Previously
+  the limits were wrong and it would allow scrolling past the end of the
+  grid.
+  
+* Clicking outside of any thumbnails in the grid now does the right thing,
+  rather than causing a runtime error.
+
+* The side bars now should no longer change side automatically. It was
+  quite disturbing at times.
+
+* Display of EXIF headers is fixed. 77/8 was a very weird shutter speed.
+
+* All windows now have minimally sensible titles.
+
+* The separate photo viewer window can now get keyboard focus.
+
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+* This NEWS file is included in the package, and accessible via the
+  Help menu.
+
+* New option --version.
+
+
+DEVELOPER STUFF
+
+* There is now a plugin mechanism. The API is not very rich yet, but
+  as much core functionality as possible will be implemented with
+  plugins, too, to ensure the API will be useful for many people.
+
+* A HACKING file now documents stuff to get people up to speed with
+  doing stuff for Dimbola. In particular, it has some info on how to
+  write plugins.
+
+
+Version 0.0.0, 2009-09-17
+-------------------------
+
+* First release. This is not useful yet, but I need to make a release
+  so that I can make .deb packages.
+