Changelog for fotoxx-15.06-lp154.2.1.x86_64.rpm :

* Tue Dec 09 2014 t.grunerAATTkatodev.de2014 Dec 01 v.14.12 + Tools > Magnify Image: New function - analogous to inspecting a printed image with a magnifying glass that can be moved freely over the image. + Tools > User Settings: When stepping through image files with the prev/next button or arrow keys, there is a new option to show only the final edited version (or the original file if never edited). + Retouch Combo: The slider to emphasize darker...brighter pixels for color adjustments was made more effective. + New command parameter -nosync: Allows a faster startup, but search and map functions are disabled because of the risk of incorrect results. More information is in the Technical Notes section of the User Guide. + Select Area: The Finish dialog has a new option to extend the selection automatically to designated image corners - a time saver. + Slide Show: When paused, the Keyboard M-key starts the magnify function. + Bugfix: Edit Metadata was not being cancelled when a conflicting function was started. + Bugfix: Adding geotags by clicking on a map sometimes failed. + Bugfix: Copy text from a dialog widget with Ctrl+C was not working. 2014 Nov 01 v.14.11 + A world map and several larger-scale continental maps are provided in a separate package: fotoxx-maps. These maps show locations of photos having geotags. Clicking a map location shows a gallery of thumbnail images that can be selected in turn for viewing full size or editing. A user may add more maps, and these will work the same way. + Gallery thumbnail popup: expanded speed and functionality for zooming thumbnails and comparing images side by side. + Gallery scrolling is smoother and easier to control with the mouse: scrolls faster as mouse is dragged closer to top or bottom of window. + Sync Gallery can now have a KB shortcut (default \'S\' for new installs). + Bugfix: Edit Geotags: If the dialog inputs were cleared to blanks, the image geotag data was not being erased. 2014 Oct 09 v.14.10.2 + Bugfix: If an unmodified image was saved with a different file type, the wrong extension was used, e.g. jpeg file saved as filename.png. 2014 Oct 02 v.14.10.1 + Bugfix: Upgrade from an older version of Fotoxx may make the window menus invisible. Workaround: delete the line \"menu style\" in the file /home//.fotoxx/parameters. + Translation updates for Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, French. 2014 Oct 01 v.14.10 + Make Waves effect: Horizontal and vertical wavelength, magnitude and variance can be set independently. More realistic appearance. + Drawing lines and arrows on an image or mashup was made easier: create a line or arrow and then drag the end-points into final position. + Gallery popup image improvements: window fits image without margins, window and image can be scaled up or down with the mouse wheel. + New setting: Monitor scale: adjust panel scale for high DPI monitor. + Bugfix: Image date and size in the search index were not always updated when changed (this error fixed itself at the next Fotoxx startup). + Bugfix: The Print Image function with grid lines enabled did not print the horizontal grid lines clearly (adjacent black and white lines). + Bugfix: The Shift Colors function [reset] button reset the dialog controls but failed to reset the image edits. + Bugfix: Mashup crash when deleting and adding text in a mixed sequence. 2014 Sep 01 v.14.09 This release makes improvements and fixes annoyances in the user interface. + Dialogs set focus on the main window after use of the [apply] or [next] button, so subsequent KB shortcuts will work without extra mouse action. + File Save: both unsaved metadata edits and image edits are now saved. (using [apply] in a metadata dialog saves only the metadata changes). + Display \"no more images\" after deleting the last image in the current gallery (otherwise the window goes inexplicably blank). + Additional dialogs now restore previous inputs across sessions. + Search Images: if time is omitted in a date/time search range, then 00:00 or 23:59 is defaulted for the start or end time respectively. + Search Images: new option: find only the latest version of each image. + Batch Convert: If image files are renamed or moved with deletion of the originals, collections containing the images are updated automatically. (The problematic Move Collections function was removed.) + Gallery popup images: use the same window or open a new window for each thumbnail clicked. The one window option is effectively a combined image and gallery view, with adjustable allocation of screen space between the two views, and one-click selection of the next image to view. + Area Select: select by matching colors was made a little smarter. + Gallery Selection: scroll selection list to keep new insertions in view. + New utility function to find and display all duplicate images, fast. + Slide Show: option to auto-replay after reaching the end. + Bugfix: Manage Collections: dragging a thumbnail to the bottom of the gallery window would not scroll up if the window was maximized. 2014 Aug later: the following translations were updated: German, Spanish, Catalan, French, Dutch, Italian 2014 Aug 01 v.14.08 + The user interface for creating or replacing a collection was improved. + Images within a collection can now be rearranged via mouse drag and drop. + New effect: Make Waves: add random waviness to an image or selected area. + The Undo/Redo button combined with the \'A\' key is Undo/Redo all edits. + Editing metadata in RAW images is now allowed (restriction was removed). + A few non-obvious dialog controls now have popup tips when moused-over. + Open Previous File retains zoom size/position to facilitate comparisons. + The menu icon size is now adjustable in Tools > User Settings. 2014 Jul 02 v.14.07.1 + Spanish and Catalan translations were updated. + Bugfix: stop spurious extra menu entry in non-English locales. 2014 Jul 01 v.14.07 + An image with selected areas can be saved to a PNG file with unselected parts transparent. This can be useful in other image editors like Gimp. + The main menu was made smaller to save space. Some menu-icons now use left/right mouse clicks for two functions, e.g. edit undo/redo. + Mashup: draw lines and arrows on an image, similarly to writing text. + Mashup: control of overlapping and transparent images was made easier. + A batch upright tool was added - find and upright images turned 90°. + Panorama: image matching for exposure/color differences was improved. + The current image on the gallery page is more strongly highlighted. + Raw Therapee was added as a RAW image file processing option. + Metadata and geotag edits were added to the right-click popup menus. + The world map was made 2x larger in area (a new download is required). + Bugfix: file rename could sometimes leave an incorrect thumbnail. + Bugfix: Batch RAW did not set the sRGB color space as default. + Bugfix: memory leak in Mashup function. 2014 Jun 06 v.14.06.1 + Bugfix: crash in gallery window when thumbnail size is set to zero. 2014 Jun 01 v.14.06 + The Window \"tabs\" paradigm was revised to improve space utilization. The user guide has many minor revisions to reflect this change. + A custom convolution kernel can be edited and applied to an image. These can also be saved to a file for later re-use. + Make thumbnails automatically for RAW files lacking embedded thumbnails. + Panorama: images can be moved and warped with the mouse to fix residual alignment errors (parallax, horizon shift, others). + Fix Perspective: move corner markers in 1-pixel steps via KB arrow keys. + Trim/Rotate: move trim rectangle in 1-pixel steps via KB arrow keys. + Batch Convert has new controls to sharpen output images. + Batch Convert RAW has new controls to resize and sharpen output images. + Mashup can more easily adjust image overlaps and transparencies. + User Settings: menu option changes no longer require an app restart. + Behave more nicely when running out of disk space. + 3 minor bug fixes and other minor improvements. 2014 May 09 v.14.05.1 + Bugfix: plugin commands were not working. 2014 May 01 v.14.05 + Deprecated GTK functions were updated (Ubuntu >=13.10 is now required). + The Blur function for a large radius (>20) was made 10x faster. + A new function Color Drawing converts a photo into a color drawing. + The flaky plugins editor was improved and the functionality revised. + A plugin was added to clean-up a white board photo using Image Magic. + Retouch Combo was revised for better control of color changes. + Retouch Combo can load and save its settings from/to a file. + Bugfix: a memory leak in Dark/Bright Pixels was plugged. + Bugfix: fix desktop file (launcher) for non-English locales. 2014 Apr 19 v.14.04.2 + Background color changed from black to dark gray. + Translation updates: Spanish, Catalan, Italian. + Fix duplicated use of menu name \"Brightness Distribution\" which makes it impossible to assign KB shortcuts or include in Favorites popup. + Fix desktop file to enable Fotoxx for \"Open With / Other Application\". + Bugfix: after [Save] (new version), the [Prev] button did not open the correct previous file (usually off by one). 2014 Apr 04 v.14.04.1 + Compensation for GTK 3.10 bug was added (in Ubuntu 14.04 beta). (thumbnail gallery page fails to update completely) + Translations for Spanish and Catalan were updated. + Mashup: rotation of an overlay image using the mouse was removed (too easy to rotate by accident - use the dialog rotate control). 2014 Apr 01 v.14.04 + The classic menu style was removed in favor of the vertical menu style. + Retouch Combo: improved capability to adjust individual colors. + Retouch Combo: brightness distribution can cohabit curve edit window. + Gallery: additional slow scroll mode for scanning images visually. + Slide Show: specify transitions and dwell times per image where wanted. + Slide Show: specify zoom-in per image (speed, center, magnification). + Leverage Edits is back (for some cases it is better than Paint Edits). + Retouch Combo: additional control for \"amplification\" of edit curves. + All curve edits: sharper bends can be made (closer anchor points). + Background Pattern: GUI is easier to use and the pattern is resizable. + Bugfix: memory leak in Retouch > Brightness Distribution. 2014 Mar xx v.14.03.1 + Bugfix: Makefile references a file not in the tarball. + Translation updates: French, Portuguese + Improve positioning of \"no more images\" notification. 2014 Mar 01 v.14.03 + Gallery view: highlight the current image with a red frame. + Gallery thumbnail right-click menu: new entry to pop-up a large resizable movable image. View multiple images within the gallery. + Mosaic: new function to convert an image into a mosaic with tiles made from all available images. Click a tile to pop-up the underlying image. + Pattern: new function to add a semi-transparent pattern to an image background (e.g. make an image seem painted on canvas or a brick wall). + New slide show transition: Ken Burns effect (slow zoom-in). + Mashup transparencies can be adjusted instantly as well as gradually. + Several small user interface changes were made for convenience and consistency with common practices. Speed was also improved. + Keyboard shortcuts editing was simplified. + Leverage Edits was removed (this is more easily done with Paint Edits). + Edit Translations was removed (unused AFAIK, and slightly buggy). + Bugfix: Paint/Clone: ignore source pixels beyond image edge [crash risk]. + Bugfix: Fix memory allocation thread contention [crash risk]. + Bugfix: If a collection once contained images that are now deleted, copy/cut/paste operations could move the wrong images. 2014 Feb 05 v.14.02.2 + Bugfix: fix memory corruption causing a crash. 2014 Feb 02 v.14.02.1 + Bugfix: stop spurious \"low memory\" warning. 2014 Feb 01 v.14.02 + Index Image Files (aka Synchronize) is faster. Intermixing image files with 100K other files under /home/user/... no longer causes a slowdown. Startup time is also faster for the normal case of few new image files. + Retouch Combo: sliders were added for fast adjustment of overall brightness and contrast. The curves can then be hand-tuned if needed. + Slide Show: a new transition type simulates turning a book page. + Slide Show: images are clipped to exactly fit the monitor if the difference in aspect ratio is less than an adjustable limit. + Slide Show: optionally show captions/comments at top of each image. + The batch Rename and Convert functions were combined for convenience. + Batch Convert has a new option to automatically sharpen images. + Paint/Clone: a \"shadow\" paintbrush tracks the source of copied pixels. + Retouch Combo, Trim/Rotate and Resize can recall prior settings for easier application to multiple images needing similar treatments. + Mashup: resizing/rotating an overlay image with the mouse is smoother. + Editing a selected area: edge blending was made a bit smoother. + Search Images: select gallery report or tabular report for metadata. + Block metadata edits for inappropriate image types (e.g. bmp, gif). + Bugfix: Texture function converted RGB 0/0/0 pixels to illegal values. + Bugfix: Bogus error message about exceeding geotag limits. + Bugfix: Trim function left temporary image remnants on the window. 2014 Jan 04 v.14.01.1 + Russian translation updated. + Spanish and Catalan Quick Start documents updated. 2014 Jan 01 v.14.01 + Adjustments for brightness, contrast, color, gamma, and white balance were combined into a single dialog function for faster workflow. + Select area: automatically finish areas selected by mouse painting and color matching (process \"swiss cheese\" selections faster and easier). + Select Area: follow-edge method can better follow edges when mouse edge-following is less than perfect. + New special effect: add textured surface to an image or selected area. + Kuwahara sharpen method added: very effective for some special cases. + All sharpen methods were made multithreaded (typical 2x speedup). + Slide Show transitions can optionally happen in random sequence. + Slide Show transition speeds can be adjusted for CPU/GPU performance. + Show RGB: update RGB values live as the mouse is moved over an image. + The user guide was audited and many minor corrections were made. + Bugfix: Mashup: preserve transparency when using saved cutout images. + Bugfix: Image edits were losing some special application XMP metadata. + Bugfix: HDR crash if input images are not exactly the same size.
* Tue May 07 2013 t.grunerAATTkatodev.de- update to 13.05.2 - The Spanish and Portuguese translations were updated. - Fotoxx home page: English Deutsch Español- update to 13.05.1 - The Spanish translation was updated. - The geocoding web service was changed to MapQuest Open.- update to 13.05 - The Fotoxx user guide is now available in Spanish. - Directory navigation was simplified for multiple top image directories. - A Quick Start guide is shown at first Fotoxx startup (also Help > Quick Start). - The menu names and groupings for edit functions are more conventional. - User Guide addition: use an ImageMagick function as a Fotoxx edit function. - New user setting: pan/scroll method: with or against mouse, 1x or magnified. - New user setting: interpolation method used for zoomed image display. - An anti-alias function was added (suppress pixelation or \"jaggies\"). - The Leverage Edits function was extended to include contrast as a lever. - The popup window for auto file sync goes away by itself (stop an irritant). - Workaround: ignore Unity KB shortcuts being sent to the active window. - New releases are now automatically notified at the next Fotoxx startup. - Slide Show: compensate jerky transitions introduced with Ubuntu 13.04. - Edit Geotags: Yahoo API died. Changed over to MapQuest.
* Sun Mar 31 2013 t.grunerAATTkatodev.de- update to 13.04 - Most image edit functions can be more rapidly applied to a bunch of images (e.g. for the initial processing of fresh images from a camera). - Ubuntu launcher has 3 options: blank, last image, gallery of recent images. - Rotate +90 and -90 can have user-defined keyboard shortcuts. - The escape key can be used to cancel dialogs. - The parameter \"jpeq quality\" is adjustable and saved across sessions. - \"installed size\" in the Debian control file was made more accurate. - Bugfix: crash if [Next] button is clicked rapidly with View Metadata active. - Bugfix: image search index was not always updated when an edited image file was saved back to itself.
* Sat Mar 09 2013 t.grunerAATTkatodev.de- update to 13.03.1 - Translations for Spanish and Catalan were updated. - Bugfix: add automatic change to tab F when the favorites menu is used. - Bugfix: arrow keys for previous/next image work more consistently.
* Thu Mar 07 2013 t.grunerAATTkatodev.de- update to 13.03 - Reduce Noise: improved user interface, easier to combine methods. - Warp Area: improved warp algorithm, easier to get desired results. - Warp Curved: radius of mouse/warp influence was made adjustable. - Custom keyboard shortcuts: replace text file with a GUI dialog. - Bookmarks: save gallery positions in a popup list, go to chosen position. - Write Text: rendering was improved, huge font sizes can be used. - Edit Translation: ease of use: keep dialog open after each update. - Better detection and notification of slowdown from memory shortage. - Menu rationalization: naming and grouping of edit functions. - Synchronize Files: progress monitor added, 50 files per dot. - Bugfix: Rotate and Warp functions: stop loss of custom grid settings. - Bugfix: Geotags: detect outdated geolocations file, request download. - Bugfix: Fix small flaws in cutouts saved to a file and later pasted. - Bugfix: Write Text: stop transparency change when [apply] is clicked. - Bugfix: Directory names containing quotes could not be opened.
* Mon Feb 11 2013 t.grunerAATTkatodev.de- update to 13.02.1: - The Italian translation was updated. - Bugfix: crash when switching tabs G to F (hopefully rare).
* Fri Feb 01 2013 t.grunerAATTkatodev.de- update to 13.02: - New features include the following: Color space conversion via LCMS was added (e.g. Adobe RGB <--> sRGB). Square and flatten a photo of a book page. The print is stretched where the page curves down at the binding, making it easier to read. Transform a photo into a cartoon-like drawing. Image date/time in the search index has 1 second resolution instead of 1 day (an index re-synch is required, which may need some time). The thumbnail gallery view can be sorted by file name, file mod date, or photo date (from EXIF). The date displayed is determined by the sort. RAW files converted to tiff/png/jpeg now retain all available metadata. The brightness distribution graph allows selection of the colors to show, and reflects only the visible area if an image is zoomed bigger than the window. The first startup after installing a new release shows the release notes in a popup window. The edit function summary table and other small help files can be viewed in the locale language if translations are available. The GUI translation method was slightly simplified, and the guide document \"translations\" was revised accordingly. Small popup texts (tooltips) go away by themselves after a few seconds. - The following bugs were corrected: PNG images with 16-bit color were being written with the bytes swapped, making them incompatible with Gimp and other editors. Geotag search for city/country was not working if latitude and longitude were left at \"null\" (i.e. values never input). Open RAW from a gallery thumbnail left a popup text permanently open. Window width was sometimes impossible to reduce without restarting the app.
* Mon Jan 14 2013 t.grunerAATTkatodev.de- update to 13.01.2: - The Dutch translation was updated. - Bugfix: If file sync is cancelled it may become impossible to continue or quit (if you don\'t have this problem, there is no reason to update).
* Fri Jan 04 2013 t.grunerAATTkatodev.de- update to 13.01.1: - Bugfix: the Grid Lines menu and keyboard on/off toggle were not working.
* Tue Jan 01 2013 t.grunerAATTkatodev.de- update to 13.01: - The French, Catalan and Netherlands translations were updated. - A vertical menu/toolbar option was added for better utilization of modern wide-screen monitors. - Gallery view: image size and date were added to the view. - Gallery view: mouse hover on a thumbnail shows a popup metadata report. - Manage Collections: the user interface was reworked to make it easier to use. - Icons for all edit functions were added for use in the Favorites menu. - Gallery file selection: multiple images can be selected for insertion or deletion, making re-arrangement of the sequence faster and easier. - Favorites menu: ignore small inadvertent drags from flying mouse clicks which can cause accidental displacement of the menu entries. - Brightness histogram: added \"overall\" graph to existing R/G/B graphs. - Missing popup mini-explanations (tips) for some menus were added. - Bugfix: some metadata functions crashed if index file sync was disabled.