Announce: Entangle “Potassium“ release 3.0 – an app for tethered camera control & capture

Posted: June 14th, 2020 | Filed under: Entangle, Fedora, Photography | Tags: , , , | No Comments »
I am pleased to announce a new release 3.0 of Entangle is available for download from the usual location:
  https://entangle-photo.org/download/
This release has a mixture of new features and bug fixes, as well as improved translations
  • Ensure picture directory is an absolute path
  • Add ability to flip image during preview
  • Fix warnings about string length
  • Convert appdata file to metainfo and add missing info
  • Another attempt to fix build deps on enum headers
  • Display remaining shot count & ETA in repeat shooter plugin
  • Remove use of deprecated GObject macros
  • Remove use of deprecated GLib APIs
  • Ensure glib min version checks at build time
  • Convert to use GObject macros for declaring boilerplate
  • Bulk reformat code using clang-format rules
  • Force a default filename pattern if setting is invalid
  • Validate filename pattern when updating preferences
  • Rename desktop file and icon file to match application ID
  • Add ability to render text messages over image
  • Add a countdown timer for photobox plugin capture
  • Disable context menu in image browser when photobox plugin is active
  • Run live view when counting down to capturein photobox plugin
  • Fix crash releasing popup windows
  • Add context menu option for opening popup image window
  • Drop drag support for opening popup image window
  • Display greeting when opening popup image window
  • Display greeting when entering photobox plugin
  • Disable view finder after capturing image in preview mode
Thanks are due to all who have contributed to this new release whether through bug reports, feature requests, translations or code patches.

Announce: Entangle “Sodium“ release 2.0 – an app for tethered camera control & capture

Posted: January 16th, 2019 | Filed under: Entangle, Fedora, Photography | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

I am pleased to announce a new release 2.0 of Entangle is available for download from the usual location:

  https://entangle-photo.org/download/

This release is largely bug fixes with a couple of small features

  • Require gobject introspection >= 1.54
  • Require GTK3 >= 3.22
  • Fix dependency on libraw
  • Fix variable name in photobox plugin
  • Document some missing keyboard shortcuts
  • Fix upper bound in histogram to display clipped pixel
  • Refresh translations
  • Option to highlight over exposed pixels in red
  • Disable noisy compiler warning
  • Remove use of deprecated application menu concept
  • Fix image redraw when changing some settings
  • Update mailing list address in appdaat
  • Add more fields to appdata content
  • Fix refrence counting during window close
  • Use correct API for destroying top level windows
  • Fix unmounting of cameras with newer gvfs URI naming scheme
  • Avoid out of bounds read of property values
  • Fix many memory leaks
  • Workaround for combo boxes not displaying on Wayland
  • Fix race condition in building enums
  • Fix setting of gschema directory during startup
  • Set env to ensure plugins can find introspection typelib Requires

Announce: Entangle “Lithium“ release 1.0 – an app for tethered camera control & capture

Posted: October 10th, 2017 | Filed under: Entangle, Fedora, Photography | 1 Comment »

I am pleased to announce a new release 1.0 of Entangle is available for download from the usual location:

  https://entangle-photo.org/download/

This release brings some significant changes to the application build system and user interface

  • Requires Meson + Ninja build system instead of make
  • Switch to 2-digit version numbering
  • Fix corruption of display when drawing session browser
  • Register application actions for main operations
  • Compile UI files into binary
  • Add a custom application menu
  • Switch over to using header bar, instead of menu bar and tool bar.
  • Enable close button for about dialog
  • Ensure plugin panel fills preferences dialog
  • Tweak UI spacing in supported cameras dialog
  • Add keyboard shortcuts overlay

Announce: Entangle “Bottom“ release 0.7.2 – an app for tethered camera control & capture

Posted: August 25th, 2017 | Filed under: Entangle, Fedora, Photography | 1 Comment »

I am pleased to announce a new release 0.7.2 of Entangle is available for download from the usual location:

  http://entangle-photo.org/download/

The this is mostly a bug fix release, but there was a little internal refactoring work to prepare for future support of timelapse / animation video display and possible webcam support.

  • Requires Gtk >= 3.10.0
  • Fix some introspection annotations
  • Use GdkSeat APIs if available
  • Use GtkOverlay and GtkRevealer in preference to custom widgets
  • Refactoring to prepare to support display of video files
  • Draw symbolic icons for video/image files while waiting for thumbnails to load
  • Ensure session highlight has a min 1 pixel visible border
  • Ensure session browser scrolls fully to right
  • Check for Adwaita icon theme which now includes symbolic icons
  • Remove left over check for DBus GLib
  • Remove use of deprecated GDK monitor functions
  • Remove use of deprecated GTK API for loading URIs
  • Fix handling of motion-notify event that broke client side window dragging
  • Fix warning when setting size of settings viewport
  • Update bug reporting address
  • Turn off over-zealous compiler warning about loop optimizations
  • Add ability to enter IP address of network camera
  • Fix URI pattern used to locate gphoto gvfs mounts
  • Add example plugin for bracketing photos of a total eclipse

Announce: Entangle “Top” release 0.7.1 – an app for tethered camera control & capture

Posted: February 21st, 2016 | Filed under: Entangle, Fedora, Photography | 1 Comment »

I am pleased to announce a new release 0.7.1 of Entangle is available for download from the usual location:

  http://entangle-photo.org/download/

The this is mostly a bug fix release, but there was a little feature work on the film strip viewer widget. It has been rewritten to dynamically scale thumbnails according to the available space, and caches thumbnails at 256px size instead of 128px.

  • Fix linking problem with strict linkers
  • Misc spelling fixes to online help docs
  • Replace use of GSimpleAsyncResult with GTask
  • Specify versions when importing from python plugins
  • Remove use of deprecated GTK APIs
  • Render image stats overlay partially transparent
  • Fix error reporting when saving settings
  • Flush events after capture to avoid accidentally restarting preview
  • Make Nikon fine focus stepping finer
  • Ensure images are sorted by last modified date
  • Switch from 128 px to 256 px thumbnail sizes to benefit larger high dpi screens
  • Rewrite film strip browser to dynamically resize icons to fit available space
  • Draw symbolic icons in film strip if image is not yet loaded
  • Refresh translations from Zanata