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NEWS about Dimbola
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Dimbola is a photo management application.
Version 0.0.3, 2009-10-24
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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.
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