Fotoxx change log
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2013.01.01  v.13.01
+ The French, Catalan and Netherlands translations were updated.
+ Vertical menu/toolbar option for better utilization of wide monitors.
+ Gallery view: image size and date were added to the view. 
+ Gallery view: mouse hover on thumbnail shows a popup metadata report.
+ Manage Collections: the UI has been reworked to make it easier to use.
+ Icons for all edit functions were added for use in the Favorites menu.
+ Gallery file selection: multiple images can be selected, inserted and
  deleted, making re-arrangement of the sequence faster and easier.
+ Favorites menu: ignore small inadvertent drags from flying mouse 
  clicks which can cause accidental displacement of the menu entries.
+ Brightness histogram: add "overall" graph to existing R/G/B graphs.
+ Missing popup mini-explanations (tips) for some menus were added.
+ Bugfix: some metadata functions crashed if index file sync disabled.

2012.12.20  v.12.12.2
+ Bugfix: geotag latitude/longitude fractions were being truncated for 
  locales using a comma decimal point.

2012.12.05  v.12.12.1
+ Spanish translation updated.
+ Russian translation updated.

2012.12.01  v.12.12
+ New false color tool: gradually shift selected colors to other colors.
+ Slide Show: save selected images as a collection. Modify and re-use.
+ Thumbnail gallery window now suppresses hidden subdirectories.
+ Minor UI improvements for geotag dialogs using the world map.
+ Select Area: additional selection method can speed-up some tasks.
+ Paint Pixels: minor UI change to better conform with common practice.
+ Batch convert/resize/move: optional resize, optional delete originals.
+ Batch Rename: sequence number can be embedded anywhere in the base name.
+ New right-click menu convenience tools: rename, copy, move, trash ...
+ Translation (.po) files are compressed, reducing package size 0.7 MB.
+ Bugfix: Slide Show omitted file versions selected out of sequence.
+ Bugfix: gallery file chooser: shift+click was sometimes ignored.
+ Bugfix: Sync Files memory leak (significant for huge image library).
+ Bugfix: EXIF edit history was not complete for re-edited images.
+ Bugfix: Select Area finish failed if window auto focus from mouse.
+ Bugfix: incorrect scaling of 16-bit PNG files.

2012.11.01  v.12.11
+ Simplify world map zoom/pan/scroll: now works more like image files.
+ Simplify the display of images from a clicked world map location.
+ Icons in the favorites menu can have individual sizes up to 64x64.
+ Slide Show option: select image files ad hoc from gallery/navigator.
+ Slide Show: open gallery, navigate elsewhere, resume slide show.
+ Slide Show: new animated image transition option, "Raindrops".
+ Gallery file selection: select a range of files with shift+click.
+ Brightness distribution graph with separate RGB color components.
+ Menu shortcuts: right-click popup menu offers many edit options.
+ Keyboard shortcuts: F/G/W keys open window tabs F/G/W respectively.
+ Grid Lines shortcut moved to Ctrl+G (can be changed if wanted).
+ Rigid free memory check was replaced with a more flexible warning.
+ Replace several deprecated GTK functions with sanctioned functions.
+ Synchronize Files: provide [cancel] button for temporary bypass.
+ Bugfix: Slide Show: skip over directories instead of stopping.
+ Bugfix: Leverage Edits: erratic results from strongly sloped curve.
+ Bugfix: Resize: prevent tiny image size that can cause a crash.
+ Bugfix: Prev/Next buttons: stop loop if last image file is deleted.
+ Bugfix: Stop image files from appearing twice in the index file.

2012.10.04  v.12.10.1
+ Bugfix: Catalan was missing from the GUI language options.
+ Bugfix: Monitor Gamma: check that xgamma is installed before using.

2012.10.01  v.12.10
+ This release focuses on user interface and efficiency improvements.
+ The user manual and F1 help are now available in Castilian Spanish.
+ The search index was revised for greater scalability. Metadata edits 
  and related image searching should remain fast beyond 500K images.
  A fresh resync of the search index will be done at first startup.
+ A custom graphic menu in a popup window was implemented. Frequently 
  used functions can be added and the layout arranged to taste.
+ RAW files can be opened in Ufraw (menu or thumbnail click).
+ A more precise world map was implemented (new download will be made).
+ Large image files open 30% faster and memory consumption is reduced.
+ The batch RAW converter now has a dialog to configure the parameters.
+ New pan/scroll option: image sticks to the mouse and moves with it.
+ Stop unnecessary refreshes of the image gallery for metadata edits.
+ Support exotic PNG formats (e.g. palletized) via GTK library.
+ Vignette bugfix: stop radius from increasing if moved off-center.

2012.09.01  v.12.09.1
Bugfix: memory management error having uncertain impact.

2012.09.01  v.12.09
+ RAW files can be opened with the menu, command line or drag and drop.
+ RAW files can be seen in thumbnail galleries like other image files.
+ RAW file editing tool Ufraw was integrated into the Fotoxx menu.
+ RAW file batch conversion parameters (dcraw) are user configurable.
+ RAW file batch conversion is faster - about 50/minute on a strong PC.
+ A wavelet denoise method was added (adapted from ufraw/dcraw).
+ Deep color PNG files are now supported (16 bits/color).
+ Vignette: center of shading/brightening can be moved with the mouse.
+ Images can be copied to the clipboard with a right-click popup menu.
+ Trim: target circle added in the middle of the trim rectangle.
+ World map shows locations of geotagged photos, click to see gallery.
+ User interface simplified for location or map-based image search.
+ A tool was added to remove chromatic abberation (color fringes).
+ Select area by mouse and color: small user interface improvement.
+ More dialogs preserve user inputs within and across Fotoxx sessions.
+ New command line option: start up with a specified menu function.
+ Panorama: option for zero image curve (e.g. to join scanned images).
+ Gallery is updated live if a file add/delete is done outside Fotoxx.
+ Bugfix: click geotag group >> gallery window sometimes did nothing.
+ Bugfix: memory leak when processing metadata (tags, captions ...).

2012.08.20  v.12.08.1
+ New GUI translation for Catalan is available.
+ Bugfix: bad fflush() call in exiftool_server caused fotoxx to crash
  in some distros using newest c-libraries (observed in Mageia alpha).

2012.08.01  v.12.08
+ Menus now show a popup description if the mouse dwells on the menu.
+ Auto-synchronization (indexing of new image files) was made optional.
  If disabled, metadata edit and search functions are also disabled.
  These can be restored at any time by synchronizing the image files.
+ The size of a printed image (in centimeters) can be set in advance.
+ A 1-click sepia coloring was added (aged photo effect).
+ If Linux standard trash and desktop trash folder both fail (possible
  with some distros) give the option to simply delete the image file.
+ Painting and scrolling the gallery window was made faster. 
+ Navigating the gallery window to other directories was simplified.
+ A gallery from an image search or collection can be discarded and
  replaced with a directory gallery using a toolbar button.
+ Bugfix: Edit Collections: keep the gallery window scroll position 
  stable when adding or removing images from a collection.
+ Bugfix: If the initial gallery window is list view (no thumbnails), 
  then the gallery window displayed only a blank window. 
+ Bugifx: Crash if a retouch function is "painted" with the mouse and
  and the function is canceled before any change is made.
+ Bugfix: Show RGB [clear] button cleared image tags but not the dialog.
+ Web site was changed from squarespace.kornelix.com to kornelix.com.

2012.07.05  v.12.07.1
+ Bugfix: World map loses the mouse connection and becomes unresponsive
  after a left mouse click/drag is used to zoom/pan the map image.

2012.07.03  v.12.07
+ Tabs are now used to switch between the image and gallery windows.
+ List Geotag Groups by country, country/city, or country/city/date.
  Nearby dates can be grouped together. Click a listed group to get the
  corresponding thumbnail image gallery, view or edit images from there.
+ Click a location on a world map, get the corresponding image gallery.
+ Several small UI improvements in geotag edit and report functions.
+ Bugfix: edit collection: removing images was sometimes not possible if 
  some images still in the collection had been deleted from disk.
+ Bugfix: memory leak if successive images are viewed in rapid sequence.
+ Bugfix: Art > Dots treatment was destroyed when saved to a file.
+ Bugfix: crash in Open Recent File if the first file had been deleted.

2012.06.17  v.12.06.2
+ The Spanish and Galician translations were updated.
+ bugfix: crash following use of Batch Add Geotags function.
+ Bugfix: stop unwanted gallery window from appearing when the control 
  key is used to link mouse actions to the main window.

2012.06.01  v.12.06.1
+ bugfix: version check for exiftool failed for locales having a comma
  decimal point instead of a period (e.g. 8,60 instead of 8.60). 

