I planned on sharing some thoughts about the intersection between Joe’s desire to upload photos Nat’s plans for social lubrication through software and F-Spot. Then I realized I could just think them and save on the typing.
So instead I bring you F-Spot 0.0.9. This is a very friendly release, please be gentle.
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This is just a short announcement F-Spot 0.0.8. This is the first F-Spot release to include support for importing photos directly from the camera via libgphoto2 and I’d love to get as much testing as possible. Please try give it a try.
Sunday was my brother Brad’s birthday and Tuesday was Kristy’s birthday. My family usually has one big meal with everyone to celebrate both, so Monday night we all went out downtown. We had a very nice time at dinner and stayed out later for drinks until Brad mentioned he wasn’t feeling very well and we all parted ways. By Wednesday night it was clear that I was sick with something and a few calls revealed that almost everyone who had been at the birthday dinner had also come down with the flu. Thanks Brad.
Fortunately I managed to make an appointment with my doctor and got some Tamiflu hoping it might help. Happily by the next day I was feeling noticeably better. Still very sick but uncomfortable sleepy sick instead of completely miserable sick. I’m willing to credit the Tamiflu for the relatively mild symptoms. I hope by tomorrow I’ll be back to full strength.
F-Spot work is still progressing nicely considering the circumstances. Last week I made a 0.0.7 release that pointed out that I need to be more careful about which version of gtk# I test releases with. The current freeze policy for the stable gtk# branch is slightly less than frozen. and in fact because of back ported fixes things are now even more fluid. Since I really don’t want to force anyone to use the stable branch directly from SVN (even though it is much better) from now on I’ll double check that I’m not using some as yet unreleased entry point. Mike has promised a new release soon.
On the positive side of API additions Ben has taken the time to add most of the methods in System.Drawing.Rectangle to Gdk.Rectangle and promised to add overloads to a bunch of the drawing functions. While the changes are small they’ll make a lot of f-spot widget drawing code prettier to look at, and that isn’t a bad thing.
$100 portable computers make me dream of a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer.
