And the first bug has already been found and fixed, sorry for that! F-Spot might simply not exist and wait for a thread that might never wake up. Simply force quit after a while, it will cause no harm. Try git master for a fixed version!
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 20:44 +0200, Ruben Vermeersch wrote: > Hi! > > After a month of intense hacking, we have just released F-Spot 0.7.0, > the first release of the unstable 0.7 series, which will lead up to a > stable 0.8 in september. This means radical changes, possible breakage > (which we try to avoid) and generally a lot of progress. > > The goal of thus cycle is to replace as much code bits by Banshee-code > (where possible), clean up, refactor, blingify. All of this will make it > much more stable and hackable, allow us to solve some of our long > standing issues (performance / memory usage) and do more radical changes > (on the UI and internally). > > Notable changes in this release are: > > * A fully rewritten import, much faster and less memory-hungry. > > * Reparenting and detaching support > > * New Mallard-based documentation > > * Started replacing core parts with Banshee equivalents. > > * No longer uses gphoto2-sharp, now uses gvfs which crashes less. > > * Fixed Facebook support > > * Modernized unit tests > > * A new build system > > * Duplicate detection that actually works > > * Mouse selection in the icon view. > > * Panning support using the middle mouse button > > * UI improvements and over 100 bugs closed: http://bit.ly/cyVjnD > > * 555 files changed, 36400 insertions(+), 48205 deletions(-) > > All of this has been made possible by our contributors. Special thanks > go out to Peter Sikking, Jakub Steiner, Hylke Bons, Garrett LeSage and > Andy Fitzsimon for their invaluable design input at Libre Graphics > Meeting. > > People with code (and documentation) contributions to this release: > > Anton Keks, Bertrand Lorentz, Christian Krause, Christopher > Halse Rogers, Daniel Köb, Gabriel Burt, Harold Schreckengost, > Iain Churcher, Iain Lane, Lorenzo Milesi, Mike Gemünde, Nick Van > Eeckhout. Paul Lange, Paul Wellner Bou, Peter Goetz, Ruben > Vermeersch, Vincent Pomey, Wojciech Dzierżanowski > > Translators for this release: > > Andika Triwidada (Indonesian), Andrej Žnidaršič (Slovenian), > Bruce Cowan (British English), Christian Kirbach (German), > Claude Paroz (French), Fran Diéguez (Galician), Gabor Kelemen > (Hungarian), Jorge González (Spanish), Kjartan Maraas (Norwegian > bokmål), Lorenzo Milesi (Italian), Mario Blättermann (German), > Michel Recondo (Brazilian Portuguese), Miloš Popović (Serbian), > Sira Nokyoongtong (Thai) > > > This new release can be downloaded here: > > http://download.gnome.org/sources/f-spot/0.7/f-spot-0.7.0.tar.bz2 > 2ed8b993b374eccce3a89c836f64a7fa947687de4207c5ae14c25f1df2fc9203 > Or through GNOME git, using the 0.7.0 tag. > > Full NEW overview: > > f-spot 0.7.0 - Jun 16 2010 - Full Steam Ahead! > ---------------------------------------------- > - First release of the unstable 0.7 development series. Massive changes. > - Reparenting and detaching support (Anton Keks) > - A new Mallard-based documentation (Harold Schreckengost) > - No longer embeds flickrnet, uses distribution copy (Iain Lane) > - Adoption of a large amount of Hyena functionality (Paul Lange, > Peter Goetz) > - No longer embeds gnome-keyring-sharp > - Completely rewritten import, much faster and less memory hungry > (Ruben Vermeersch) > - No longer use gphoto2-sharp, now uses gvfs which is less crash-prone > (Ruben Vermeersch) > - Fix Facebook support (Ruben Vermeersch) > - Modernized unit tests > - Revamped build (Mike Gemünde) > - Much improved duplicate detection (much faster too) > (Ruben Vermeersch) > - Mouse selection in Iconview (Vincent Pomey) > - Image panning support using middle mouse button > (Wojciech Dzierżanowski) > - Timeline slider now restricted to the size of the window > (Iain Churcher) > - Over 100 bugs closed (http://bit.ly/cyVjnD) > _______________________________________________ f-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
