ANNOUNCE: Cheese 3.9.4 released



This is a development release, with many improvements and bugfixes throughout the application.

what is it?
===========
Take photos and videos with your webcam, with fun graphical effects

what's changed in 3.9.4?
========================
 - Move gettext initialization to main()
   Ensure that gettext is always initialized, regardless of whether the
   running instance is the primary instance.
 - Make actions insensitive when no webcam is present
   Set the "effects", "mode" and "shoot" actions insensitive when no camera
   devices are found on startup. Fixes bug 693070.
 - Remove TODO
 - Add touch event handler for selecting effects
   Use a ClutterTapAction on each effect to allow either a mouse click or a
   touch tap to select effects. Depend on Clutter 1.13.2 for
   ClutterTapAction. Fixes bug 692745.
 - Updated POTFILES.in and POTFILES.skip
 - Move action sensitivity handling to Application
 - Remove unnecessary instance_pos attribute
   The instance_pos attribute is only used in Cheese when connecting
   signals from actions to handlers with GtkBuilder.
 - Do not show thumbnails in fullscreen
   This can happen when toggling the wide mode action while fullscreen mode
   is active. Also remove the unnecessary resize calls.

   Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede redhat com>
 - Remove unused move_all_to_trash action
 - Remove wide-mode and fullscreen GSettings keys
   Both wide mode and fullscreen mode can be set with toggle actions, and
   there is little reason for the state to persist across application
   restart.
 - Mark cheese_[gtk_]init() arguments as allow-none
   It is reasonable to pass NULL for argc and argv.
 - Refactor command-line argument handling
   Only handle Cheese options on the command line; handle library options
   with environment variables instead. Use actions from the command-line
   parser to switch to wide mode and fullscreen mode.
 - Refactor Application startup
   Override default handlers rather than connecting to signals. Add
   startup() and use it to initialize cheese-gtk and gettext.
 - Split main() and Application into separate files
 - um-crop-area.c: Relicense to GPLv2+
   This makes the file fit in better with the rest of Cheese,
   license-wise.

   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703239
 - Remove stale help translations
   Many translations have not been updated since the switch to Mallard
   help, so remove them from HELP_LINGUAS to make the distribution smaller
   and speed up building.
 - Handle NULL state errors in CheeseAvatarChooser
   Fixes remainder of bug 703123.
 - Show an error message if the camera state is NULL
   If there is a GST_MESSAGE_ERROR, stop the stream and emit
   ::state-flags-changed on the CheeseCamera. Handle the state change in
   CheeseWindow by showing a generic error message. This message can easily
   occur if the video device is busy, such as when another application is
   using the webcam.

   Fixes bug 703123.
 - Add CheeseWindow.show_error() method
   Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede redhat com>
 - Fix being paused when effect valves are closed
   The move to autocluttersink in 3.9 causes a regression compared to 3.8,
   where if an effect's control valve is closed the pipeline will never
   transition from paused to playing since the cluttersink is stuck in
   paused.

   This regression can be triggered the following way:
   1) Go the effect selector
   2) Go to the next page in the effect selector, so that the now connected
   effects from the first page get their control valve set to closed
   3) Change resolution or device, so that the pipeline gets stopped and
   started again

   After 3) the pipeline will be stuck in pause, as the cluttersinks of the
   effect previews are stuck in pause.

   The cause for this is that with the move to autocluttersink we are no
   longer setting the sink's "async" property, see commit 424afdaa 'Use
   "autocluttersink" instead of "cluttersink"'.

   Setting the "async" property is no longer (easily) doable, since
   autocluttersink is a gstbin derived object which has the actual sink
   embedded.

   Instead this patch fixes the stuck in pause problem by locking the
   autocluttersinks of the effect previews into the playing state.

   Note that no longer setting of the async property on the sink is also
   the root cause of the issue fixed by my patch titled: "Set all valves
   open on play". The opening of the main valve is still necessary, since
   locking the viewfinder sink's state to PLAYING does not seem a good
   idea, the opening of the effects-valve on play OTOH is no longer
   necessary.

   Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede redhat com>
 - Use shoot action when handling the webcam button
   Rather then calling on_shoot directly, call the action, so that if shoot
   is disabled, it also cannot be triggered through the webcam button.

   Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede redhat com>
 - Set all valves open on play
   If some valves are closed on play, GStreamer will wait for the valves to
   open before moving from paused to playing, and a frozen image is shown.

   This does not happen on startup since on startup all valves are open,
   nor does it happen when changing video-format directly after startup,
   since all valves will still be open. As soon as
   cheese_camera_toggle_effects_pipeline() has been called once, any
   subsequent attempt to change the video format (and thus stopping and
   re-starting the pipeline) will result in a frozen image.

   This patch fixes this by opening all valves on play, and calling
   cheese_camera_toggle_effects_pipeline() with the last active value after
   the pipeline transitions to the playing state.

   This has the added advantage that unlike before the effects valve will
   be closed on startup, rather then staying open till the first call to
   cheese_camera_toggle_effects_pipeline().

   Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede redhat com>
 - Avoid setting the same effect again
   Check for the current effect being the same as the one set and if so,
   ignore the change.

   Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede redhat com>
 - Disable effects and mode actions while shooting
 - Fix de-activation of effects button
   So that the user does not need to click twice on the effect button
   to change
   the effect (after the first time the effect was changed).

   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698399

   Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede redhat com>
 - Reorder Help and About in the app menu
   Move Help to be above About in the application menu so that it complies
   with the HIG.
 - Post-release bump to 3.9.4
 - Added/Updated Translations
   - cs, courtesy of Marek Černocký
   - de, courtesy of Benjamin Steinwender
   - es, courtesy of Daniel Mustieles
   - nb, courtesy of Kjartan Maraas
 - Added/Updated Documentation
   - pt_BR, courtesy of Rafael Ferreira

where can i get it?
===================
you can get it by pressing here!
http://download.gnome.org/sources/cheese/3.9/

what does it look like?
=======================
take a look here!
http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/tour

where can i find out more?
==========================
you can visit the project web site:
http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/

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