News from the F-Spotters

Some news, in no particular order:

F-Spot 0.6.1.2 was released a couple of minutes ago. It fixes db upgrade for the people who went in holidays in the far future. Now F-Spot can update a db with photos taken (or reported to be) after 2038. It also fixes a crash while running on gtk+ 2.14.

The LiveWebGallery extension is now merged into the main tree, and installable, from the Manage Extension dialog, on any F-spot > 0.6. The extension crashing on gtk+2.14 is part of the past too.

Ruben is MIA. Last time we heard from him, he was "in a park near a pond near a museum".

A new extension, allowing finer control over the BlackAndWhite conversion process is coming soon. It leverages the expensive CPU you paid big bucks for via Mono.Simd. Mandatory screenshot:
That's it for today.

Awesometastic

I woke up this morning with an awesometastic merge request from Anton Keks. During the night (or was it already started weeks ago ?) he wrote a LiveWebGallery extension for F-Spot. It means that you can, using a web browser, see the whole (or only parts of) photo collection of someone else in your local network.



The HTML/js UI is pretty slick even !

The code is not merged yet, but I packaged the extension and it's now installable from within F-Spot (> 0.6.0.0) from the "Extension Manager" dialog.

More details can be found on Anton's blog.

[Update 2009/09/15. The code is now merged]