Shotwell 0.9 Adds Extensible Plugin Framework For Web Publishing And Slideshow Transitions

Shotwell is the default Ubuntu photo manager and you can use it to organize your photos, publish them on various websites such as PicasaWeb, Flickr, Facebook and more.

Shotwell 0.9 has been released today, adding an extensible plugin framework for web publishing and slideshow transitions which means we might see a lot more plugins soon for publishing the photos on the web.

The new version also comes with a new search bar which you can use to filter by media type, rating and text matching, TIFF support and option to print multiple photos (including multiple photos per page).

Other new features in Shotwell 0.9 include:

• Configurable user directory pattern during import
• Edit multiple photo titles at once
• Improved rendering of underexposed RAW photos
• Updated Gexiv2 library with an enhancement to the logging system
• Various improvements and bug fixes

Install Shotwell 0.9 in Ubuntu 10.10

Add the Shotwell PPA and install the latest Shotwell in Ubuntu 10.10 using the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install shotwell

Also see: gThumb 2.13.1 Released With 'Find Duplicates' Extension, More [PPA].

By the way, which photo manager do you use? Shotwell or gThumb (or maybe some other application)?

gThumb 2.13.1 Released With 'Find Duplicates' Extension, More [PPA]

gThumb is an image viewer and photo manager for GNOME. It comes with options to edit photos, transfer photos from digital cameras and upload photos to popular websites such as Facebook, PicasaWeb, Photobucket, Flickr and more.

A new gThumb version (2.13.1) was released recently, bringing quite a few improvements. There are two new tools: contact sheet creator (creates an index image displaying the thumbnails of the selected files) and an extension that finds and removes duplicates and there's also a new histogram program.

Here are some other interesting changes in the latest gThumb 2.13.1:

• Re-added ability to view file comments in the file list
• Added ability to drag files with the middle mouse button to allow the user to choose the action to perform
• Added ability to move catalogs with drag&drop
• Change date tool: added the ability to shift dates by any offset
• Crop tool: added a new grid mode to view the center lines of the current selection
• Added ability to search and filter files with a single tag
• New thumnail style: round corners; Another change to the thumbnails which will now use thr same height - this allows to avoid
• scroll jumps when loading the thumbnails listed before the currently
• visible ones
• Added a comment filter that ignores automatic camera comments such as "SONY DSC", "OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA", etc
• Re-added the 2.10 semi-trasparent property box in fullscreen mode. The 'i' key shows/hides the property box
• Print: allow to specify the number of rows and columns; allow to specify the header and the footer of the pages
• Allow to rename the files in a catalog
• Many other minor tweaks and bug fixes

Install gThumb 2.13.1 in Ubuntu

As usual, the latest gThumb is available in the WebUpd8 gThumb PPA (for those who only want to install gThumb) as well as in the main WebUpd8 PPA (along with other packages we maintain). Add the gThumb PPA and install gThumb 2.13.1 in Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gthumb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gthumb

To enable the new extensions, start gThumb and go to Edit > Extensions and enable "Find Duplicates" and "Contact Sheet".

Install gThumb Photo Manager 2.12.2 In Ubuntu

gThumb is an image viewer / photo manager for GNOME. It includes options to edit photos, transfer photos from digital cameras, upload photos to websites such as Facebook, PicasaWeb, Photobucket, or Flickr and so on.

Quick update: gThumb 2.12.2 has been released last night and as usual, it's available in our gThumb PPA as well as the main WebUpd8 PPA.

gThumb 2.12.2 is a bug-fix release only. Here is the changelog:

• Correctly activate the default extensions when started the first time
• Enable building with exiv2-0.21
• Launch a single instance of Gimp when opening many files at once
• Fixed folder renaming
• Fixed search in catalogs not ginving any result
• Fixed crash on thumbnail generation
• Web Albums: update the file info when scaling the original image
• New or updated application translations: Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio), German (Mario Blättermann), Japanese (Takeshi AIHANA), Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)

To install gThumb 2.12.2 in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx or 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, use the following commands in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gthumb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gthumb

Alternatively, you can also install the latest gThumb from the main WebUpd8 PPA.

PPA Updates: Minitube, gThumb, Launchpad Getkeys, Dropbox Share

This post is just a short summary of some updated packages in the WebUpd8 PPAs.

Minitube

Minitube stopped working yesterday due to some changes to the YouTube website. The update broke all applications for playing / downloading YouTube videos, but luckily Minitube has been updated (version 1.3) to include a fix. The new version also comes with a new icon and is available as always in the main WebUpd8 PPA, for Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install minitube

Unfortunately this version also comes with a regression: the Linux version has lost its seeking functionality. Hopefully it will be re-added in a future version.

gThumb

I've also updated gThumb (2.12.1) which is now in sync with Debian unstable. This is not a new version of the application but a new version of the packaging which fixes some pretty important bugs. As usual, gThumb is available both in the WebUpd8 gThumb PPA and in the main WebUpd8 PPA.

Install it from the gThumb PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gthumb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gthumb

Launchpad Getkeys

Late last night I've updated Launchpad Getkeys to work with non-English Ubuntu. Initially, the script only worked if you had installed Ubuntu in English.

Install Launchpad Getkeys:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install launchpad-getkeys

Unfortunately the script does not work if you need a proxy.

Dropbox Share

Dropbox Share has been updated to use "dropbox-index.html" instead of "index.html" file name when sharing a folder (an .html file is created when sharing a folder so you can easily navigate all the subfolders in a web browser). The new version also removes these dropbox-index.html files automatically when unsharing a folder (and when the script notices you've removed the link from the Dropbox Public folder).

Install Dropbox Share:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dropbox-share