News from my F-Spot addins, especially the workflow addins used to work with Bibble 4, Bibble 5 or other external RAW processor applications.

• New Addin: Develop in Bibble5 in your context menu
• Import Processed will import now your processed photos as new versions

You can find more information and where and how to get them on my F-Spot addin site. If you want to participate or have a look at the source code you can do so on Gitorious.

Follow-Ups:

• Flickr Group Bibble Users
• Flickr Group F-Spot
• Bibble 5 Support Forums
• Outdated F-Spot Extensions site

That’s worth a blog post. The new F-Spot release is fixing the 3-4 year old datetime bug (see http://blog.wbou.de/ … -spots-time-problem/ and the links referenced there.)

Besides this, there are more news and life is coming again into F-Spot’s development. Ruben Vermeersch has taken over the maintenance from Stephane Delcroix.

You can follow the development on F-Spot’s Gitorious Site.

In the meantime, while this entry slept as draft here, F-Spot 0.7.1 was released. There are some problems with Nikon JPGs, so that for the moment it is unusable for me. But the direction looks promising.

Aside from the fact that there is again a discussion around the time bug I updated my branch fixing this feature on gitorious.

To use it, just grap the sources and compile it.

git clone git://gitorious.org/~paulwb/f-spot/paulwbs-clone.git

As an alternative you can download the tarball linked on the gitorious page.

cd paulwbs-clone/
git checkout origin/ImportTimeHandling
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Looking forward to have this fixed and working.

Update: Steve created a PPA for Ubuntu users which fixes this bug just as my branch is doing. And, for more information, the Ubuntu bug is here.

I committed and uploaded a bugfix for the Version Sidebar F-Spot Plugin. Version 0.6.4 fixes a bug affecting some other parts of F-Spot, too. The version sidebar is now clickable again.

By the way I branched the Addins and the master branch now depends on F-Spot’s core 0.7, which replaces Core with App.Instance.

Update: The tabbed sidebar is not working at the moment with 0.7 (git), due to a redesign in the f-spot source. I am still not sure how I redesign the tabbed sidebar code to get it work with the actual design or if the f-spot code will be changed again. 0.6 works fine.

See my F-Spot Addin page for more information.

Some more updates on the addins for F-Spot I wrote about lately.

Tabbed Sidebar

• Saves open sidebar page on changing between view mode and browser mode

Version Sidebar

• Fixed bug and crasher because of not using the correct id ranges in photo versions collection

You can find the source code as always on Gitorious, the extension url here:

http://purecodes.org/f-spot/0.6

Updates only available for 0.6.

Some updates on the addins for F-Spot I wrote about lately.

New Addin: Tabbed Sidebar

I announced that this wasn’t possible. Well, Ruben Vermeersch made the F-Spot Sidebar public, so that I can access it with a Service Addin. See my last post for a screenshot. This saves at least a click on each sidebar page change.

This is done using a service addin which accesses the F-Spot UI elements on startup. Restart F-Spot after installing this addin to to work.

Import Processed Files

• Fixed crash: API change in latest git 0.6

DateTime Format

• Added new config variable for long date display. F-Spot displays the date and the time, too, if the width of the thumbnails is wide enough. You can use this variables now:

  gconftool-2 --type string \
  --set "/apps/f-spot/ext/datetimeformat/shortdate" "yyyy-MM-dd"
  gconftool-2 --type string \
  --set "/apps/f-spot/ext/datetimeformat/longtime" "HH:mm"

  You have to restart F-Spot after installing this addin or changing the date patterns.

You can find the source code as always on Gitorious, the extension url here:

http://purecodes.org/f-spot/0.6

The addins for 0.5 did not change. The tabbed sidebar is not available for 0.5.