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2004.06.11 - v1.1.3 - "Hurry up, I'm getting married tomorrow"
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- You can now define custom branches in the dir view (By Craig Drummond)
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- An image cache has been added to speedup image loading.
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- Gwenview now uses freedesktop.org thumbnail spec to store thumbnails.
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- A new option to automatically empty thumbnail cache on exit (By Angelo
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- The image size is now displayed below file names in thumbnail view.
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- Don't crash when switching to fullscreen while generating thumbnails and
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coming back (By Lubos Lunak)
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- Faster thumbnail generation (By Lubos Lunak)
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- Faster image painting by dynamically determining suitable paint
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- Use the "Standard Background" color as the background for thumbnails and
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folders (By Craig Drummond).
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- Make sure the current image is reloaded if it has been modified outside
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- Optional support for KIPI, KDE Image Plugin Interface.
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- Incremental downloading of images.
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- Image smoothing is much more configurable (By Lubos Lunak).
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- KParts will now remember their settings.
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- Fixed several image loading bugs.
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- Make sure small and medium size thumbnails do not look jagged.
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- Work-around a Qt bug which caused the window title to not come back after
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leaving fullscreen mode and reduces flickering (By Lubos Lunak).
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- Fixed several bugs in file saving.
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- Make sure the loading cursor disappear when the image has finished to load
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- Remember last used folder in "copy to" and "move to" dialogs (By Lubos
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- Horizontal mouse wheels should work correctly now.
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- Entering "~username" in location combo box works now.
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- Selecting an URL in the location combo box opens it.
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- When viewing an image from within a frame based web site in Konqueror, don't
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crash when opening popup menu.
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- Give higher priority to the loading of the image than to the generation of
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thumbnails (By Lubos Lunak).
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- Added KPart support, this installs in Konqueror a new file view mode and let
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you view images in an embedded Gwenview (By Jonathan Riddell).
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- Asynchronous JPEG loading, based on Khtml loader.
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- Really asynchronous PNG loading (By Lubos Lunak).
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- Mouse wheel will now scroll the image by default. Holding Ctrl will scroll
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horizontally. An option has been added to the setting dialog to toggle
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between scroll and browse (By Jeroen Peters).
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- When holding shift over the image, right click will zoom out (By Jeroen
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- Image painting is now progressive (By Lubos Lunak).
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- The rotate and mirror functions can now work on multiple selection.
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- Make it possible to load another image or quit even if you can't save your
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- Gwenview won't spawn multiple instances of jpegtran anymore.
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- New settings in print dialog to specify how the image must be print.
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- Big thumbnails are really BIG now :-).
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- First implementation of asynchronous image loading. Only for PNG right now.
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- Double-clicking an image in the file view will open it in fullscreen [*].
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- The move and copy dialog now use a tree view.
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- In the thumbnail view, create thumbnails for the visible images first
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(Thanks to Lubos Lunak).
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- Gwenview now uses its own thumbnail cache dir.
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- Gave contributors the credit they deserve in the about box [*].
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- Updated to libexif 0.5.12 and applied patches from libexif CVS [*].
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- When going to the parent folder, make sure the folder we were in before is
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- If there's no image in the current folder, select the first visible file [*].
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- When holding down Shift to zoom, keep the same area of the image under the
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- Nicer drag cursor [*].
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- Hopefully fixed every cases where the image was not centered in the view [*].
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*: Backported to 1.0.1.
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- Show a wait icon for not-generated-yet thumbnails (inspired from Nautilus
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- Show a broken icon for broken images.
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- If auto-zoom is on, make sure the zoom is updated after rotating an image.
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- Fixed crash when loading XCF images if Gwenview was compiled with gcc 3.3.1.
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- Before running an external tool, change working directory to current folder.
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- When switching images in fullscreen, don't show the cursor.
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- Use standard KDE icons for zoom actions.
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- New icons for slideshow and image operations.
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- New magnifier cursor.
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2003.11.16 - v1.0.0pre4
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- Added a new option to hide the busy pointer when loading an image in
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- Added a popup menu to select the sorting mode. Usefull in thumbnail view.
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- Use a KDE dialog for the configuration dialog.
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- Removed the image view mouse behavior configuration options. The behavior is
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much simpler now: left button to drag image, middle button to toggle
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auto-zoom and mouse-wheel to browse images. If you want to zoom hold Shift
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and use either the mouse-wheel or the left button.
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2003.11.01 - v1.0.0pre3
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- Added a "don't ask me again" check box to the save prompt dialog.
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- Added a reload button.
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- Added a "Go" button to the location toolbar.
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- Really fixed saving of external tools.
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- Make sure the folder view is updated when a folder is renamed.
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- The mouse-wheel behaviors are not messed anymore by dialogs or by showing
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2003.10.11 - v1.0.0pre2
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- Added Back/Forward history buttons (based on work from Tudor Calin).
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- The parent button can now display a popup menu (by Tudor Calin).
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- Simple printing support (by Angelo Naselli).
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- The image comment editor shows more explicit messages when the comment is
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empty and when the image can't be commented.
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- The external tool dialog won't fail on fresh installation.
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- The path to jpegtran is now stored correctly, even if it's not absolute.
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- Fixed compilation failure on KDE 3.0.
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2003.09.27 - v1.0.0pre1
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- Toolbars are now configurable and toolbar settings are remembered.
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- New dock window to display Meta Info (thanks to Jos van den Oever).
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- Cursor over image view changes to reflect the current behavior.
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- When toggling autozoom off, restore the previous zoom and position (Based
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on a patch by Jos van den Oever).
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- It's now possible to define external tools associated with images or
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- Exiting with Ctrl+Q from the fullscreen won't close the file view for
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- Do not switch the file view to detailed mode when leaving the fullscreen
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- Do not stop displaying images when browsing folders containing lots of JPEG
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files (more than a thousand).
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2003.06.09 - v0.17.1a
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- Fixed compilation failure on KDE 3.0.
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- In the folder view, show the "+" sign in front of folders if they have
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- Lossless manipulations of JPEG images won't remove the EXIF information
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- Handling of the EXIF orientation tag should now work on KDE 3.0.
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- When "auto-zoom" was on, pressing the "reset zoom" button would not
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- Added an "Edit" submenu to the popup menu of the image view, similar to the
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main window "Edit" menu.
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- Moved "Open with editor" in the "Edit" menu.
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- Display the image file name in the window title.
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- Fixed the bug which caused the window to grow up when entering folders with
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long names (Thanks to Stefan Heinze for the tip).
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- Rotating big JPEG images with JPEGTran won't hang anymore.
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- Keep the fullscreen button activated to be able to go back to normal mode
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when moving to a dir without images in fullscreen mode.
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- Added a cancel button to popup menus, like Konqueror does.
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- Added support for dropping files to the file view.
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- Fixed compilation failure on KDE 3.0.
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- Clear the image view when the last image of the current folder is removed.
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- Hopefully fixed the bug which caused Gwenview to sometimes crash when
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invoked with a folder in the command line.
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2003.04.27 - v0.17.0pre3
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- Really fixed the bug which caused the dock layout to be messed after going
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- Always display the location bar on a new line.
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- Fixed the lock which could occur if you kept the go-to-previous or
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go-to-next shortcut keys pressed for too long.
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2003.04.26 - v0.17.0pre2
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- Support for EXIF orientation information.
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- Don't alter the layout of the docks when toggling dir and file views or
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- File name won't be cut anymore in the thumbnail view.
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- Prompt to save a modified image before quitting.
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- Fixed an inconsistency with JPEG lossless rotation.
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2003.04.21 - v0.17.0pre1
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- Show/hide hidden files.
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- Image rotation and mirroring (using jpegtran when working on JPEG files to
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perform lossless manipulations).
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- You can now smooth scale images.
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- New entry in the "View" menu: "Hide Folder And File Views".
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- New option to enlarge smaller images when using auto zoom.
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- New option to toggle scroll bars on image view.
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- New option to select whether deleting files should send them to the trash or
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- Moved the slide show settings to a separate dialog shown before starting it.
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- Image count in the status bar doesn't include archives anymore.
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- Do not zoom the transparency checkerboard.
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- Uses opaque resize for docked views.
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- Resizing the window resizes the image view only.
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- When using double click mode, double clicking a folder in the icon view
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did not open the folder.
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- Fixed compilation failure with KDE 3.0 (Thanks to GeniusR13).
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- Support for zip IO slave.
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- Added an "erase url" button.
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- Corrected toolbar layout for RTL languages (Thanks to Meni Livne).
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- Do not give focus to the address bar on start.
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- Do not exit when trying to thumbnailing a broken JPEG (Thanks to Marco
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- The previous/next shortcuts were wrong in 0.16.0pre1.
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2003.01.12 - v0.16.0pre1
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- Support for IO slaves: you can browse FTP files, Windows shares, go into
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- Multi-selection support (at last!).
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- Added a "home folder" tree branch to the folder view.
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- Added a simple slideshow feature.
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- Now uses the trash to delete images.
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- Added an address bar.
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- Displays the filename of the current image in a different (configurable)
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- Do not start dragging folders in the folder view when not necessary.
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- When dropping urls and selecting "Move", the drop item will become the
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current one only if the item which was the current one was part of the
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- Small jpeg images were getting a stretched thumbnail.
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- Fixed the centering of image in scrollable view.
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- Enabled the "show folders in file view" by default.
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- Added an item to the popup menus to show the file properties.
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- The selected thumbnail does not look strange anymore when changing the
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- Always zoom on the center of the image.
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- Do not reload the image every time when opening the context menu.
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- File count was also counting folders.
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- Integrated the updated man page by Michael Spanier.
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- Selected thumbnail looks nicer now.
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- Fixed automatic deselection of the selected thumbnail when using single-click
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2002.09.14 - v0.15.0pre1
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- New option to prevent Gwenview from loading the first image when it enters a
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folder (Thanks to Andreas Pfaller for the patch).
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- You can now show the folders in the file view. By enabling this and hiding
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the folder view, Gwenview won't have to open all parent folders on startup.
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- XCF file format support, thanks to the QXCFI library by Lignum Computing
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(http://lignumcomputing.com).
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- Thumbnail generator now always saves the thumbnail at the biggest size :
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for smaller sizes the big thumbnail is loaded and scaled. This uses less disk
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space and make thumbnail size switching faster.
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- Reworked the zoom behavior so that it works like the zoom tool in the GIMP.
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- Fixed the horizontal one pixel lines which appeared in fullscreen mode when
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the toolbar was hidden.
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- New command line option (-f) to start in fullscreen mode.
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- Updated thumbnail generation to store thumbnails in the same folder
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Konqueror 3 uses (Thanks to Andreas Pfaller and Renchi Raju for the patches).
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- Fixed a crash on exit under certain circumstances.
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- Should not crash anymore when loading big images.
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- Really fixed the bug which caused Gwenview to not display image file given as
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- Fixed ugly look of file names in thumbnail view when word wrap was enabled.
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- Fixed flickering and drawing artefacts remaining after zooming in and out.
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- Lock zoom state was not properly remembered.
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- Updated polish translation.
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- Updated german translation.
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- Fixed a crash if a directory contained URL-like encoded characters (Thanks to
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Dario Abatianni for the bug report)
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- Do not reload all thumbnails if an image is removed.
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- When starting Gwenview with an image file as an argument, the image does
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- Gwenview won't crash anymore if started with a file that doesn't exist as an
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- Fixed a bug in recognition of progressive jpeg images.
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- Updated swedish translation by Anders Lind�n.
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- Added a japanese translation by Ryota Simamoto.
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- Gwenview uses KImageIO for file formats, bringing a few other file formats
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such as ico, eps or g3.
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- Replaced my own dir widget with the new KDirView widget provided by KDE3.
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- Thumbnail selection buttons are always activated.
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- You can now choose between 'auto-zoom' or 'scroll-and-zoom' in fullscreen
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- You can now lock the zoom to keep the same zoom value during browsing.
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- Integrated a patch from Frank Becker to speed up JPEG thumbnail generation.
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- Swedish translation.
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- More personalizable wheel behavior.
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- Gwenview now remembers the 'auto-zoom' state.
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- You can now define what interface elements you want to hide in fullscreen
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- Fixed a bug in cache cleaning if the cache was already empty.
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2002.03.04 - v0.12.0
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- Navigation buttons are now enabled or disabled according to the
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