4 months development time, uncountable hours of work, 170 svn revisions,
about 50 fixed bugs, 40 new features, at least 2 easter..ehm christmas
eggs and pretty high number of actual code changes. and yes, we are
donating the numbers i mentioned above to YOU!
and yes you are right again, you can get our packaged parcel by pressing
here! [1]
what is it?
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Cheese is a Photobooth-inspired GNOME application for taking pictures
and videos from a webcam. It also includes fancy graphical effects based
on the gstreamer-backend.
what's changed in 0.3.0?
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* add a shutter sound, when taking a photo
* sort the thumbnail chronologically
* make the effect chooser look a bit nicer
* give thumbnails a frame like in nautilus and eog. fixes bug
#500819
* enable shortcuts if the mouse pointer is over the xoverlay.
fixes bug #493196
* add new shortcuts
* space for take a photo/start-stop recording
* ctrl q for exiting
* f1 for help
* delete for removing a photo or video
* add a gconf backend
* chosen effects are stored in gconf. fixes bug #488834
* store the used webcam device in gconf. partially fixes bug
#473038
* use a throbber, when the camera is loading
* add drag and drop support to the iconview
* vertical and horizontal flip were switched. fixes bug #479238
* many usability improvements. partially fixes bug #501337
* point to the right homepage in the about dialog
* add a boilerplate for a manual in cheese. partially fixes
#480628
* make video and photo button a toggle button. fixes bug #498022
* make links on about dialog clickable. fixes bug #499425
* translate menu items created by gtkuimanager, fixes bug #500821
* change the first item in menu to "Cheese"
* add a "Move all to trash" option
* use gtkuimanager for the menu
* give the ability to record videos from the menu
* provide access to the effect chooser using the menu
* use radio buttons in the menu to change between photo and video
mode
* use HAL to detect webcams
* make ximagesink an xvimagesink work for all cameras
* only use raw video formats. fixes bug #502174
* use the highest resolution for each camera
* add --verbose command line option, fixes bug #499399
* cheese was refactored and uses now a webcam class
* removed some memory leaks
* fixed many, many bugs
* added/updated translations
* ar, courtesy of Djihed Afifi
* ca, courtesy of Carlos Garcia Porcel
* cs, courtesy of Vitezslav Kotrla
* de, courtesy of Andre Klapper
* el, courtesy of Athanasios Lefteris
* es, courtesy of Jorge González
* fr, courtesy of Pierre Slamich
* gl, courtesy of Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
* it, courtesy of Alessandro Falappa
* nb, courtesy of Kjartan Maraas
* oc, courtesy of Yannig Marchegay
* pt, courtesy of Miguel Rosa
* ro, courtesy of Anastase Valentin
* sl, courtesy of Deni Bačić
* sv, courtesy of Daniel Nylander
where can i get it?
===================
you can get it by pressing here! [1]
what does it look like?
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http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/data/screenshots/cheese-0.3.0.jpg
etc
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with this christmas release we wish you all a happy christmas and a good
start into the new year. we would love to get some christmas pictures of
you and your friends, family, childrens, santas and reindeers ;)
[1]:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/cheese/0.3/cheese-0.3.0.tar.gz
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