Category Archives: Announcements

Announcements, Shotwell

Shotwell 0.14 released

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The Shotwell programmers, with plenty elation,
Present to you all our fourteenth iteration.

Among the tasks on which we’ve made movement,
Here are some highlighted bits of improvement:

If you shoot in raw, you’ll like it much better now –
It’s smarter at keeping paired images together now.

If something should happen and importing fails,
we’ve better reporting and can save the details.

For Facebook, the app has been Graph API‘d,
And now lists your image folders on the left side.

The slideshow’s enhanced with several new types
Of circular, checkboardular, nifty new wipes.

Along with all this come many bugs fixed,
UI nits squashed and glitches – now nixed.

It’s the very best Shotwell there ever has been –
Go on, download it, give it a spin!

Update for Precise users:
Ubuntu Precise users take heed
of a warning of significant importance indeed.

The Yorba PPA requests for software
that your apt-get may not yet be aware.

Add the GStreamer PPA to your repositories
and refresh the list of your package inventories.

Now Shotwell 0.14 is ready to be had!
Though one may wish to install gstreamer plugins “ugly” and “bad.”

Announcements, Geary

Exciting times for Yorba (we need your videos!)

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Yesterday was an auspicious day here at Yorba: Shotwell is four years old.  It’s hard to believe that from that rather meager first commit grew the photo manager we have today!

Well, today is another auspicious day here at Yorba.  Some of you may remember that last year at GUADEC 2012, Adam Dingle and I gave a keynote discussing how the open source community could attempt to find sustainability via crowdfunding.  I’m thrilled to share that we’re ready to put some weight behind that idea: Yorba plans in the near future to begin such a campaign for our newest application, Geary, a lightweight modern email client for the GNOME desktop. Our hope is that a successful crowdfunding campaign could bring in sufficient revenue to make Geary a world-class email application.

We hope that a successful campaign will demonstrate that crowdfunding is a sustainable model for other projects to follow. Many of those projects have historically relied upon corporate sponsorship. Crowdfunding brings with it an independence that these other revenue models lack. It allows us to continue to operate independently and build the features you, the community, really want to see.

One key element to all crowdfunding campaigns is a short video that describes the vision of the project. We plan on producing exactly that kind of video. We would love it if we could include testimonials from our users about the software experience Yorba has provided in the past. Please consider making a short video of yourself (under two minutes) describing your experience with Geary and/or Shotwell: what you like about them, why you use them, and more importantly, one or two of your top Geary wishlist items — features that would make it the perfect email client.

To submit your videos, email geary-love@yorba.org with a link to your video — FTP, YouTube, Vimeo, etc. — along with your name, your work or other affiliation (optional) and your location. We plan on starting this campaign soon, so we need your video testimonials by next Friday, March 15.

Wish us luck, and let us know your thoughts in the comments! We’d love to hear from you.

Announcements, Shotwell

Shotwell 0.13.1 released for Ubuntu 12.10 on our PPA

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Good afternoon, one and all,

In response to popular demand, we’re pleased to announce the presence of Shotwell 0.13.1 for Ubuntu Quantal users on our PPA. Among many other Shotwell-related tasks we’ve had to temporarily wait on, this has been one of the most-frequently requested ones, and we want to let you know that we haven’t forgotten about everyone who’d asked for this.

To add the PPA containing this build to your Ubuntu Quantal installation, simply do the following:
1) From the command line, type ‘sudo apt-add-repository ppa:yorba/ppa’ and supply your password as needed.
2) Type ‘sudo apt-get update’.
3) Type ‘sudo apt-get upgrade shotwell’.

Announcements, Geary

Announcing Geary 0.2.2

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We’re pleased to announce the release of Geary 0.2.2, Yorba’s lightweight email client. Geary organizes your email by conversations rather than threads and offers full HTML composition, attachments, and more. Geary is compatible with Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and most IMAP servers.

Improvements for this release include:

  • PLAIN authentication fixed on Yahoo! and other SMTP servers
  • geary.desktop file always built and installed

The Geary 0.2.2 tarball is available for download.

See Yorba’s wiki for information on building, running, and contributing to Geary.

Report bugs and feature requests at Yorba’s Redmine server. (You must create an account before adding or modifying tickets there.)

Ubuntu users can also find a version for Precise Pangolin (12.04) on Yorba’s PPA.

Adventurous Ubuntu users may also wish to subscribe to Yorba’s Daily PPA.

Announcements, Geary

Geary 0.2.1 released

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We’re pleased to announce the release of Geary 0.2.1, Yorba’s lightweight email client.  Geary organizes your email by conversations rather than threads and offers full HTML composition, attachments, and more.  Geary is compatible with Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and most IMAP servers.  It’s written in Vala and features a fully-asynchronous engine for sending and receiving email.

Features and improvements for this release include:

* Save attachments FileChooserDialog now displays network mounts
* Adds support for SMTP PLAIN authentication
* Installs Italian translation (overlooked in 0.2.0)
* Adds three new translations: Czech, Telugu, and Turkish
* Preferences dialog and .desktop file now translated
* Icon and desktop file cache updated after uninstall
* Various translation fixes, including translations not being displayed

The Geary 0.2.1 tarball is available for download.  See Yorba’s wiki for information on building, running, and contributing to Geary.  Report bugs and feature requests at Yorba’s Redmine server.  (You must create an account before adding or modifying tickets there.)

Ubuntu users can also find a version for Precise Pangolin (12.04) on Yorba’s PPA.  Adventurous users may also wish to subscribe to Yorba’s Daily PPA.

Announcements, Shotwell, Yorba

Shotwell 0.13.1 Released!

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Good afternoon, one and all,

We’re pleased to announce the release of Shotwell 0.13.1. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version.

Among the fixes in this release:

  • Increased robustness against server errors and malformed responses in the publishing subsystem
  • Better support for importing video from some Sony cameras
  • Correction of a problem where the searching and filtering UI could get out of sync with what was being displayed in a user’s library
  • Fixing of a regression in which the Send To feature didn’t work correctly with multiple photos

A tarball of this release can be obtained from http://yorba.org/download/shotwell/0.13/shotwell-0.13.1.tar.xz, and Ubuntu users on Precise Pangolin can obtain a pre-built version from the Yorba PPA; users on Quantal Quetzal or other distributions should have access to pre-built binaries soon through the normal update mechanisms.

Again, thank you for your interest in Shotwell, and if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to let us know or mention them on our mailing list.