Version 12.02 of Fotoxx
Release Notes: Fotoxx has been converted to use GTK3 and Cairo. It will no longer build or install on older Linux releases lacking these libraries. Support for multiple top image directories has been added. The gallery thumbnail size is saved and restored across sessions. RPM packages are now built using Fedora and rpmbuild instead of alien. Two minor bugs have been fixed.
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Release Notes: Image geotagging and reporting was added. Multiple images can be processed rapidly, and batch processing is also available. Images can be searched by city (and optionally country) and within a kilometer range. Output is a gallery of clickable thumbnails. The database has 3000+ world cities, augmented by any new geotags assigned. 1-click Web sourcing is also provided. The Search Images function was simplified. Searching by date, rating, tags, comments, caption, filename, geotags, and any other metadata is in one dialog with buttons to select options. Four bugfixes were made.
Release Notes: Selecting an area by matching color tones is now smoother and more responsive. An unwanted object can be overpainted using a background taken from elsewhere in the image. A new vignette tool can create a dark or colored surround of the central area, or remove a radial brightness falloff in an old photo. The border of a selected area can be adjusted incrementally using the mouse. Indexing and thumbnail creation for newly-found images has been made faster, over 2,000/minute on a strong computer. Seven other minor improvements have been made, and one significant bugfix.
Release Notes: Bugfix: Select Area > Finish recently started crashing in some Linux distributions. A workaround was implemented: remove calls to gdk_flush(). This may make Fotoxx appear to "freeze" for a short time during Select Area > Finish if the area is a large one.
Release Notes: Two minor bugs were fixed. The Select Area cancel button did not kill the Finish process but waited for it to complete. Retouching a zoomed image caused a change in aspect ratio that self-corrected afterwards.
Release Notes: The focus for this release is speed and interface improvements. Mouse-driven area-selection and edit respond much faster. Indexing of new files at startup is much faster. The exiftool program is started as a server process and left running, eliminating a significant delay for every image opened. The internal image format was changed from int-16 to float-32 per color. This simplified the code and made some edit functions slightly faster, but more memory is used: about 800 MB to edit a 20 megapixel image. There are several other small improvements, 1 significant bugfix, and 5 minor ones.
