F-Spot 0.7.2 was released! It includes a monodevelop solution!

The version of F-Spot Core was elevated to 0.8, so I updated my addins, created a 0.7 branch and made the master branch depending on F-Spot Core 0.8. So there is a new repository:

http://purecodes.org/f-spot/0.8

In addition to that, you can just use following symlink to the most recent repository if you always use the latest f-spot version:

http://purecodes.org/f-spot/latest

You can find more information and where and how to get them on my F-Spot addin site. If you want to participate or have a look at the source code you can do so on Gitorious.

News from my F-Spot addins, especially the workflow addins used to work with Bibble 4, Bibble 5 or other external RAW processor applications.

• New Addin: Develop in Bibble5 in your context menu
• Import Processed will import now your processed photos as new versions

You can find more information and where and how to get them on my F-Spot addin site. If you want to participate or have a look at the source code you can do so on Gitorious.

Follow-Ups:

• Flickr Group Bibble Users
• Flickr Group F-Spot
• Bibble 5 Support Forums
• Outdated F-Spot Extensions site

Finally, after waiting one year, Bibble 5 Pro is nearly to be released! Great news.

I won’t have much time to test it extensively the next days and week, but I am looking forward to a much more stable and less memory consuming Bibble.

Yes. Another preview version. Bibble 5 Preview 2.2 released.

Not tried it yet very much. But some of the highlights of the changelog:

» Major improvements to the Layers & Regions tools, with better memory management and much faster rendering
» Implemented On / Off toggles per Region and per Layer
» Implemented File -> Open and drag & drop to open image files and work queues.
» Implemented ‘Portable Catalogs.’
» Improved Linux Trash operations (to be freedesktops.org compliant)

This means… Yes, it is time to implement a “Develop in Bibble 5” extension, or at least an “Open with…” context menu entry in form of a desktop file like I did with Bibble 4 (direct link to desktop file and shell script).

I updated the two F-Spot addins for Bibble 4 and I published two new ones. Furthermore, the URL of the repository has changed and I published the source on gitorious.

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Finally. Bibble Labs released, as promised (I wrote about it before), a preview of Bibble 5!

I have not much time, but I gave it a short try. It looks great. Nice, smooth user interface, although I have to get used to it, runs fine under Linux and Windows. The preview is not full featured, there are features that are disabled and will be included in later Previews and in the final release — who knows when this will be…

The selective editing with a kind of layers is one of the features I am looking forward to. Great. I will write about my experiences with Bibble 5 here the next days and weeks. It seems that there are a lot of issues still open in this preview.