File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 0.6.1
Notes:
*********************** GPixPod **************************
Organize photos on your iPod, freely!
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GPixPod has been originally created to support the latest
(5G video) Apple iPod, but now it works with iPod Nano and
iPod Photo, too.
GPixPod let you manage your collection of photos uploading
them to your iPod, organizing them in photo albums.
Instead of the iTunes synchronization approach, GPixPod
let you choose your manual operations on your photos and
photo albums, such as adding/deleting individual photos
and photo albums, and renaming photo albums.
Lot of work has been done, specially building the parser
for the Photo Database file format, mh.py.
This is my first Python and PyGTK application, thus please
forgive my eventual errors and/or unproper coding.
Please forgive my bad English, too!
The home page of GPixPod is at http://www.gpixpod.org with
the development blog and a wiki. SourceForge project page
is at http://sf.net/projects/gpixpod.
Visit also http://www.flagar.com/en/software/gpixpod
GPixPod has been developed by Flavio Gargiulo (FLAGAR.com)
but nothing could have been done without the documentation
provided by many contributors on the iPodLinux wiki
(http://ipodlinux.org/ITunesDB) and without the original
concept code by Henryk Plotz (http://www.ploetzli.ch/ipod)
GPixPod is provided without any kind of support/warranty,
under the terms and conditions of the GNU GPL v. 2 license
(see the file COPYING).
Use it at your complete risk! Please create backups of
your Photos and of your Photo Database before trying!
Please send any your comment, bugs, tips to:
Flavio Gargiulo <flagar-AT-gmail-DOT-com>
Thanks for using GPixPod!
Changes:
GPixPod 0.6.1
- Reacting to double-click on image displaying fullscreen
- Slideshow at intervals of 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, or 30 seconds
- Slideshow keys combinations (PageUp/P - PageUp/N - Esc/Q)
- New Export menu with save thumbnails options
- Fixed iPod Photo/Color fullscreen thumbnail
- Made HAL autodetection completely disabled by default
(it segfaults in Ubuntu Edgy)
- Using mmpython to get image date from EXIF headers, for
the path to store the image (patch by William Waghorn)
- Fixed proper size of the album icon when adding a new one
- Fixed bash script as suggested at #1549407
- New packages with correct dependencies
GPixPod 0.6
- Bottle-neck image formats code converted to C for speed!
- Rebuilding thumbs only when needed for much faster saving
- Safe CLI app SIGTERM and CTRL-C interrupt, saving before
- Pause save & resume later or just stop at reached point
- Thumbnails in treeview to preview photos
- New "View" menu to hide/show GUI sections
- New "Photo Album" notebook page
- Rename album option now also in the "Edit" menu
- New "Rescue" option tries to fix Photo DB if inconsistent
- Fixed exception when using sync file from CLI
- Fixed exception when adding photos and thumbnails cache
directories are missing (deleted)
- Removed wrong filechooser options when saving images
- Properly managing special empty database iTunes-formatted
- Made all dialogs modal to avoid multiple instances
- Updated translated strings
- Some other GUI clean-ups (ugly borders removed, etc.)
GPixPod 0.5.2
- Fixed bug when adding a photo with GUI for the first time
- Automatic rotation option for detected portrait images
- Fixed exceptions when trying to set missing title icons
- Fixed previously buggy sync used to avoid duplicates
- Automatic hiding of the scrollbars in image details pane
GPixPod 0.5.1
- Simplified full resolution image options support, with
option now straight in the filechooser, instead of menu.
- Manually select iPod model if autodetection doesn't work
- Alert box to specify iPod model when autodetection fails
- Scanning directories recursively option when adding photos
- Option to avoid known duplicates when adding photos
- Fixed bug #1523592: often too many open file descriptors
- Fixed exception with CLI when config dir is missing
- Fixed exception when removing thumbnails cache
- Specified correct minimum Glade dependencies
GPixPod 0.5.0
- Fit, zoom, stretch as uploading behaviours for images:
global option in preferences, single action per image.
Default is 'Fit'. A behaviour affects only thumbnails.
- New basic command-line interface automatically activated
when passing options to gpixpod. Look at the man page or
use --help. Don't pass any option to get regular GUI.
- Basic synchronization using new command line interface
- Better packaging in both python and debian ways
- Updated preferences dialog
- Fixed menu disabling "new album from unrefer.." at start
GPixPod 0.4.4
- Updated parser code to properly handle Photo Database
files probably generated on Macs by iPhoto, containing
irregular type-2 string MHOD in MHBA and label in MHII
- New iPod info dialog launchable from the help menu
GPixPod 0.4.3
- Avoid managing iPodLinux ext2/ext3 partitions!
- Fixed crash when rotating images, affecting Photo iPods
- Clockwise rotation code rewritten, used when displaying
- Fixed iPod Photo fullscreen image display
- Improved graphics with simpler icon and more refined logo
GPixPod 0.4.2
- Multi-threading! Adding photos and saving actions should
be faster, specially on multi-core/processor machines
- Full progress indication now when opening/saving Photo
Database/thumbnails, thanks to threads implementation
- Stop/Abort update operations before actually saving
- Photo references! Link photos in multiple places/albums
- Delete photo references, and find unreferenced photos
- Main website URL updated: http://www.gpixpod.org
- Fixed exception when exiting after deleted thumbs cache
- Fixed debian package dependencies
GPixPod 0.4.1
- Blazing-fast opening with thumbs checksum instead of copy
- Thumbs update on saving; extracting only on checksum fail
- Option to choose where thumbnails cache should be kept
- Speed-up in some RGB565 functions using operator module
- Some speed-up when open/save in extract/rebuild thumbs
- Fixed treeview when selecting an album for the first time
- Fixed addition/removal/display of photos with accented or
other not ASCII characters
- Fixed cross-platform pack/unpack specifying little-endian
- Maybe it now supports the latest model, iPod Nano 1Gb
GPixPod 0.4.0
- Now loading properly Photo Databases generated by iTunes
with the option to not copy full resolution images
- Spanish translation by Diego Belotti
- Global option to copy / not copy full resolution images
- New Add Photo (with/without) full resol. single actions
- Adding/removing full resol. images for existing photos
- Displaying iPod thumbnails in new notebook right pane
- Little optimization of the full resolution image display
GPixPod 0.3.4
- Image details available if not saved yet, too. Status shown.
- Image in details zoomed to all available space by default
- Change the zoom for the image displayed in the details pane
- Save the currently displayed image on the details pane
- Expand/collapse photo album in the treeview with single click
- Default album name selected when creating new photo album
- Existing photo album name as default text when renaming it
- Fixed an exception with gettext in iPod/HAL import code
GPixPod 0.3.3
- Drag & Drop of supported image files added for the treeview.
- Added gettext support for internationalization
- Added Italian translation
- Fixed a bug when browsing the filechooser with the keyboard
- Fixed a bug in the details pane: previous image not cleared
if the next one is not found
- Removed iPod Photo/Nano warnings. Modified iPod Color warning
- Fixed exception about filechooser when creating new photo db.
GPixPod 0.3.2
- Preview and file details when choosing images to import
- Dialog for adding and renaming albums now accepts <Enter>
- Refined preferences, filechooser for iPod mountpoint
- Last Photo Database and images directories now remembered
- Photo selection in treeview now with single-click
- Message in details warning about missing full res. photo
- Fixed exception if requesting details of a new added photo
GPixPod 0.3.1
- Fixed ratio scaling when converting images to interlaced UYVY
(used in the iPod for TV output)
- Single function to load pixbuf properly scaled and with alpha
channel removed
- Fixed HALdetect function, parsing only when modules available
- Fixed a bug when scaling fullscreen iPod thumbnail
- Fixed gpixpod.py to launch if passed to the python interpreter
- Fixed exception when displaying details of a new added photo
- Fixed details still displayed after deleted photo, now cleared
- Fixed details cleared when double-click a photo album
- Using webbrowser module for links
- iPod Color treated as iPod Photo: testing feedback needed
- Added menu entry to make a PayPal donation
- More tooltips in menu
- Debian/Ubuntu package
- Cross-platform fixes and win32 installation package
- Correct dependencies are python 2.4+ and gtk/pygtk 2.8+
GPixPod 0.3
- Now iPod Photo seems supported fine (probably iPod Color, too)
- All gdk-pixbuf image formats now supported for photo import.
Thus in addition to JPEGs, now also PNGs, BMPs, GIFs, SVGs...
- Preferences dialog: automatic detection/opening, mountpoint, etc.
- Refined image conversion functions to keep ratio when scaling
- Added basic image conversion functions to rotate CCW and CW
GPixPod 0.2.3
- Now iPod Nano seems supported fine.
GPixPod 0.2.2
- Added "Eject iPod" feature, with the "Do not disconnect" iPod
message checking.
- Easy swap/not swap bytes in image conversion functions
GPixPod 0.2.1
- Fixed 4 bugs that caused iPod Nano not interpreting Photo DB
and therefore not displaying photo albums. Thumbnails still
have problems.
- Added debug logging in Photos directory, file .gpixpod.log
GPixPod 0.2
- Added highly experimental support for iPod Photo, Color and Nano
Create backups of your Photos and Photo Database before trying!
- Added in GUI 'New' action, to create Photo Database from scratch
- Added iPod model detection
- Added DBUS/HAL autodetection implementation thanks to the
contribution by Abaakouk Mehdi
GPixPod 0.1.1
- Solved a small bug when creating database from scratch
GPixPod 0.1
- First public release!
