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Eye of Gnome 2.5.4

Application

Eye of Gnome 2.5.4

Description

Standard GNOME image and photo collection viewer

Changes

Since there hasn’t been announces for recent development
snapshots, here is the complete list of all changes of the 2.5.x
development branch:

Version 2.5.4

  • General:
    • Recent files update (Jason Leach)
    • Compile fixes – #131766 (German Poo Caaman~o)
    • Crash fix for filenames with ‘:’ – #130726
    • Close file dialog on cancel in all cases – #131654 (Balamurali
      Viswanathan)
  • Collection:
    • Display name of the directory shown – #132263
    • Fixed memory leaks.
    • Mnemonic for “View as Image Collection” in Nautilus – #128796
      (Christian Neumair)
  • Translation Updates: Changwoo Ryu (ko), Laurent Dhima (sq),
    Christophe Merlet (fr), Miloslav Trmac (cs), Takeshi AIHANA (ja),
    Kostas Papadimas (el), Robert Sedak (hr), Sanlig Badral (mn), Jens
    Finke (de), Artur Flinta (pl), Vincent van Adrighem (nl), Francisco
    Javier F. Serrador (es), ygimantas Beručka (lt), Duarte
    Loreto (pt), Ole Laursen (da), Hasbullah Bin Pit (ms), Kjartan
    Maraas (no), Andras Timar (hu), Metin Emirov (az), Asmund
    Skjeveland (nn),

Danilo egan (sr)

Version 2.5.3

  • General:
    • Preview of images in the fileselector if an thumbnail already
      exists.
    • ‘eog *.jpg’ works again and give you a nice collection
      view
    • Handle spaces in filenames.
  • Translation Updates: ygimantas Beruka (lt), Miloslav Trmac
    (cs), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Taneem Ahmed (bn), Danilo
    egan (sr, sr@Latn), Robert Sedak (hr), Duarte Loreto (pt),
    Christophe Merlet (fr), Asmund Skjeveland (nn), Laurent Dhima (sq),
    Jordi Mallach (ca), Roozbeh Pournader (fa), Kjartan Maraas (no),
    Artur Flinta (pl), Arafat Medini (ar)

Version 2.5.2.1

  • General:
    • Intltool build fix (#130062)
  • Collection:
    • Indicate modified images by bold caption
    • Better caption wrapping
  • Translation Updates:

    Laurent Dhima (sq), Gustavo Noronha Silva (pt_BR), Takeshi
    AIHANA (ja), Miloslav Trmac (cs), Asmund Skjeveland (nn), Duarte
    Loreto (pt), Artur Flinta (pl)

Version 2.5.2

  • General:
    • Use new GTK file chooser (Jan Arne Petersen)
    • Compilation fixes (Kaushal Kumar)
    • Build fix (Thomas Vander Stichele)
    • Multiple save-issues fixed
    • Fullscreen mode crash fixed
    • 0-byte file issue fixed
  • Collection:
    • Show only image files, which can actully loaded by
      GdkPixbuf
  • Translation Updates: Jens Finke (de), Danilo egan (sr,
    sr@Latn), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (sp), Miloslav Trmac (cs),
    Kjartan Maraas (no), Changwoo Ryu (ko), Takeshi AIHANA (jp), Arafat
    Medini (ar), Vincent van Adrighem (nl), Laurent Dhima (sq), Kjartan
    Maraas (no)

Version 2.5.1

  • General:
    • Support lossless saving of jpeg files (Jens)
  • Collection:
    • Select last viewed slideshow image when returning from
      fullscreen (Jens) – #118617
  • Viewer:
  • Translation Updates: Laurent Dhima (sq), Paisa Seeluangsawat
    (th), Vincent van Adrighem (nl), Miloslav Trmac (cs), ygimantas
    Beruka (lt), Danilo egan egan (sr), Ole Laursen (da), Jordi Mallach
    (ca), Kostas Papadimas (el), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)

Version 2.5.0.1

  • General:
    • Cache recently loaded images.
    • Use exif loader from libexif >= 0.5.12.
    • Reworked image loading status cycle
    • Made fullscreen shortcut key F11 work on Solaris (Shivaram
      Upadhyayula, Jens) – #104805
    • Updated help (Breda McColgan)
  • Collection:
    • Don’t include auto-generated files in tarball – #125118
    • New model implementation (EogImageList)
    • Mem leak fix
    • Slideshow: automatic switching after user determined
      timeout.
    • Slideshow: determine upscale status for small images by config
      key.
  • Shell:
    • Consider gconf key ‘open_new_window’ – #91189
    • Tool-/statusbar hiding (Kaushal Kumar, Jens) – #114231
  • Translation Updates: Danilo egan (sr, sr@Latn), Asmund
    Skjeveland (nn), Kostas Papadimas (el), KAMAGASAKO Masatoshi (ja),
    Jordi Mallach (ca), Vincent van Adrighem (nl),

Hasbullah Bin Pit (ms)

Version 2.5.0 (changes since 2.4.0)

* General:

  • Better filename -> UTF-8 translation – #122671, #117838
    (Jens, Hidetoshi Tajima)
  • configure switch to disable libexif support
  • Added X-GNOME-DocPath to .desktop file – #124196 *
    Collection:
  • Fixed crash on shutdown
  • Fixed crash when libexif is not available
  • Fixed duplicate size entries in info view
  • Update image infos on modification
  • Much better thumbnail layout
  • Mark status message for translation
  • Don’t show frame around temporary icons * Translation Updates:
    Pablo Saratxaga (wa), Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira (pt_BR), ygimantas
    Beruka (lt), toivo@linux.ee
    (et), Jordi Mallach (ca), Christian Rose (sv), Pablo Gonzalo del
    Campo (es), Vincent van Adrighem (nl), Danilo egan (sr), Jens Finke
    (de)

Download

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/eog/2.5/eog-2.5.4.tar.gz

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/eog

Rhythmbox 0.7.0

Hi,

I’m very happy to announce the first release in the Rhythmbox
development series. Rhythmbox will start using a versioning scheme
similar to GNOME and Linux, where odd-numbered releases are
development, and even are stable. =20

So again, this is a development release.

The name for this release was carefully selected to
simultaneously frighten and intrigue you. This release is unlikely
to actually eat your music, but since completed tag writing will
likely appear in the 0.7.x series (but not this release), we wanted
to prepare you for this possibility.

There are a lot of important changes in this release. First, if
you use the GStreamer player, then you need at least GStreamer
0.7.4. The great thing about GStreamer 0.7.4 is that it includes a
metadata framework now, and Rhythmbox takes advantage of that. The
bottom line now is that Rhythmbox doesn’t depend on libid3tag,
libflac, etc., anymore. In fact, with GStreamer, there is now no
media-specific code in Rhythmbox. If you have a GStreamer plugin,
you can both play back that format and load it into your library,
and you don’t even need to recompile Rhythmbox.

This feature needs a lot of testing. I know a lot of people out
there have all sorts of funky mp3s, and what we really need is for
you to try loading them into your library, and post links to ones
that don’t work.=20 But Rhythmbox can definitely load at least my
music flawlessly.=20 Everyone should thank Benjamin Otte for this
awesome work on GStreamer.

And there’s a ton of other cool features for you to try:

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.7.0: “My, your music looks
tasty…”

  • Support for GStreamer-based metadata [Colin Walters]
  • Initial tag editing work [Colin Walters]
  • Adaptive ratings [Michael Terry]
  • ReplayGain support [Jeremy SIMON]
  • Create automatic playlists via drag and drop from browsers
    [Jonatan Magnusson]
  • Editing of automatic playlists [Colin Walters]
  • Song info dialog cleanups [Colin Walters]
  • Implement “Browse this genre/artist/album” context menu [Colin
    Walters]
  • Allow reordering playlists via DND [Colin Walters]
  • Automatically scroll view while dragging [Yann Rouillard]
  • Fix sorting by genre [Colin Walters]
  • Pause support for multimedia keys [Crispin Flowerday]
  • Lots of playback order fixes and speedups [Jeffrey
    Yasskin]
  • .m3u parsing fixes [Colin Walters]
  • Some MacOS X work [Jeffrey Yasskin]
  • Fix time display with partial days [James Kahn]
  • Use new GtkFileChooser if available [Sriram Ramkrishna]
  • Internet radio buffering progress now uses bottom progress bar
    [Colin Walters]
  • Correctly remember state for Import Folder dialog [Colin
    Walters]
  • Lots more error checking for playback [Colin Walters]
  • Update INTERNALS documentation [Colin Walters]
  • New “equals” criteria for automatic playlists [Colin
    Walters]
  • New default iradio station list [Colin Walters, Jeffrey
    Yasskin, Joseph Wilhelm]
  • Default CFLAGS warning bits stolen from gnome-keyring [Colin
    Walters]
  • Configuration/build fixes [Juilo M. Merino Vidal]
  • More C89 fixes [Scott Wheeler]
  • General code cleanup [Colin Walters, Christophe Fergeau,
    Jeffrey Yasskin]
  • Misc bugfixes [Colin Walters, Christophe Fergeau, Jefferey
    Yasskin]

New translations in Rhythmbox 0.7.0:

lt (Zygimantas Beruka)
mn (Sanlig Badral)
ga (Paul Duffy)
ar (Arafat Medini)

Updated translations in Rhythmbox 0.7.0:

fi (Ilkka Tuohela)
cs (Miloslav Trmac)
de (Christian Neumair)
az (Metin Emirov)
no (Kjartan Maraas)
ko (Young-Ho Cha, Changwoo Ryu)
es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
pl (GNOME PL Team)
sr, sr@Latn (Danilo Segan)
nl (Kees van den Broek)
el (Kostas Papadimas)
pt (Duarte Loreto)
ja (Takeshi AIHANA)
cy (Telsa Gwynne)

Downloads should be available here once the mirrors finish
syncing:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/0.7/

Bug reports and feedback are appreciated!

Jamboree 0.4

Jamboree is a music player for GNOME.

Its features include Ogg Vorbis and MP3 support, normal and
smart playlists and shuffle mode.

News in this release: GStreamer 0.7 and libxine support, an
experimental dbus interface, memory leak fixes, and various small
UI enhancements, updated translations.

The source is available at

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/jamboree/0.4/

Enjoy!
Richard

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Richard Hult

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