[News]

Hi,

This is the first development release of Eye of GNOME (EOG) as part of
the 2.23/2.24 development cycle. It features an initial set of default
plugins (which will be extended soon), PNG metadata support (XMP and
color profiles), migration to gio/gvfs, and other misc improvements
and bug fixes. Our plan is to add more plugins, make some more nice UI
polishing, add plugin API docs, and more.

* What is it ?
==============

Eye of GNOME (EOG) is the image viewer for the GNOME desktop.

* What's changed in 2.23.1 ?
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New features:

* Migration to gio/gvfs (Cosimo Cecchi)
* An initial set of default plugins (Lucas Rocha, Claudio Saavedra)
* New command line option --new-instance to force creation of a
new instance instead of reusing existing one (Claudio Saavedra)
* PNG metadata (XMP and color profile) support (Felix Riemann)

Misc improvements/fixes:

* Miscellaneous improvements in thumbnailing code (Michael Chudobiak)
* Several metadata handling improvements (Felix Riemann, Claudio Saavedra)

Bug fixes:

* Fixed #343061, Can't save picture after opened a link picture (Cosimo
Cecchi, Felix Riemann)
* Fixed #427053, Keyboard shortcuts managed in eog-scroll-view.c only work
if image has focus (Claudio Saavedra)
* Fixed #466566, Display date in a more prominent place (Claudio Saavedra)
* Fixed #492017, Bring back 'Q' to exit eog (Lucas Rocha)
* Fixed #517017, Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_event: assertion
`WIDGET_REALIZED_FOR_EVENT (widget, event)' failed (Wouter Bolsterlee)
* Fixed #517821, Save print settings in key file (Claudio Saavedra)
* Fixed #523173, provide option not to fork and exit if existing instance
(Claudio Saavedra)
* Fixed #525618, thumbnail code issues (Michael J. Chudobiak)
* Fixed #526331, EoG can't read XMP tags created with F-SPOT whereas Nautilus
can (Felix Riemann)
* Fixed #527798, compile warnings (Claudio Saavedra)
* Fixed #522077, make it easier to add more metadata readers (Felix Riemann)
* Fixed #523856, read (and use) selected PNG metadata (Felix Riemann)

New and updated translations:

- Alexander Shopov, Yavor Doganov [bg]
- Simos Xenitellis, Kostas Papadimas [el]
- Philip Withnall, David Lodge [en_GB]
- Jorge González, Jorge Gonzalez [es]
- Ivar Smolin [et]
- Mark Krapivner, Yair Hershkovitz [he]
- Sandeep Shedmake [mr]
- Kjartan Maraas [nb]
- Peter Tuhársky [sk]
- Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Clytie Siddall [vi]

New and updated manual translations:

- Jorge Gonzalez, Jorge González [es]
- Maxim Dziumanenko, Maxim V. Dziumanenko [uk]

* Where can I get it ?
======================

Source code:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/eog/2.23/eog-2.23.1.tar.gz
md5sums: e8d6d8a882d2e7e1387b9603d4a981a5

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/eog/2.23/eog-2.23.1.tar.bz2
md5sums: f1b776c4ae73b125d3184d256ffc68d4

Enjoy!

The EOG Team
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