Shotwell contributor and all-around great guy Bruno Girin recently posted a discussion on how to get started with D-Bus, GDBus, and Vala. Compare his code to a sample GDBus server written in C! Bruno’s work could be the foundation for a much larger Vala project …
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Shotwell 0.8.1 Released
Yorba has released Shotwell 0.8.1, an update to our digital photo manager for GNOME. This release provides bug fixes, support for new video and RAW formats, and translation updates. Specific enhancements include:
- Fixes a problem where Shotwell could crash unexpectedly at startup or when reading/writing metadata to files.
- Fixes a problem where Shotwell could hang when importing voice-annotated videos.
- Fixes a problem where Shotwell failed to import date and time information for some camera-generated MP4 videos.
- Shotwell can now delete video files from camera memory.
- Shotwell now supports the 3GP video format common on mobile phones and RAW files with the SRW suffix generated by Samsung cameras.
- Numerous translation fixes and updates.
We recommend that all users upgrade.
You can download a source tarball from the Shotwell home page at:
or grab a binary for Ubuntu Maverick via Yorba’s Launchpad PPA at: