Solang is a photo manager for GNOME and this release contains several
new features and improvements.
* A new logo and .desktop file.
* Context sensitive popup on right-clicking a photo in the browser
renderer.
* Folder exporter to export selected photos to a folder.
* Improved editing abilities. A new GEGL based editing engine; and
support for brightness, contrast, saturation and scaling. Of these
only the first two operations are based on GEGL. The rest will be
migrated as GEGL improves in the future.
* Introduced a histogram in the editor renderer and the property
manager.
* It is now possible to copy a set of applied operations from one
photo and paste it onto others.
* New vertical toolbox for the editor renderer. The flip, rotate and
scale operations are now placed in this toolbox, and their
corresponding entries have been removed from the menu.
* Support for slideshows.
* The date, property and tag managers, and the search basket are
hidden when using the editor renderer.
* The main horizontal toolbar style has been set to "icons only".
* Use a black background for the photo when in fullscreen mode and do
not draw a frame it.
* New dependencies on BABL and GEGL.
We would like to thank Yasen Pramatarov and Andrea Zagli for contributing the
Bulgarian and Italian translations respectively; and Angella Inzinga for
creating a logo.
For more information on Solang, including links to file downloads,
please see the project page http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/solang.
Please email bugs or suggestions to
Here are the compressed sources:
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/solang/solang-0.3.tar.gz
http://rishi.fedorapeople.org/solang/solang-0.3.tar.gz
Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/solang/solang-0.3.tar.gz.sig
http://rishi.fedorapeople.org/solang/solang-0.3.tar.gz.sig
[*] You can use the signature file to verify that the corresponding
file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download
both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command
like this:
gpg --verify solang-0.3.tar.gz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then download the project keyring from
http://sv.nongnu.org/project/memberlist-gpgkeys.php?group=solang&download=1
and run this command to import it:
gpg --import solang-keyring.gpg
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
5 comments:
Great work ! Can't wait to test Solang on the next Ubuntu :)
I'm specially curious about the copy/paste operation feature, that's a neat idea !
The UI is horrible. Tiny buttons with large font in it look ugly. Custom toolbar instead of GTK one brings additional inconsistency. Only good things in this app are its startup speed and high responsiveness. Other things, including F-Spot approach, are failure. F-Spot lost many of users because of the lack of FS-level representation. So, you project will do it too.
@emacs: it would be helpful if you propose something concrete to fix the "horrible" ui on the solang-devel list. Also, i am not to clear about what you mean by the FS level representation... if you mean the directory structure, i have some good (hopefully) news for use. Actually, the directory structure that you see now are not hard coded. It is created dynamically from a format string. Only thing that we sould need is to add a pereferences box that users can use to customize the storage directory. Since for these few releases we are most working on the backend stuff, we did not get time to implement that. It will be added in a release in the (near?) future.
Keep up the good work on this. Can't wait for this to really mature and replace F-Spot !!!!
What are the plans for the next version? Is there any news you can bring us?
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