[Pimp-announce] ANN: PIMP Version 0.9.0 Released

[Phil Edwards]

The latest release of PIMP is now available for download from:

http://www.linux2000.com/pimp.html

This is essentially a maintenance release. A bug was discovered in the
image filter selection dialog which has been fixed. I also discovered
that a pixmap file had been omitted from the distribution manifest,
causing that file to be missing from the 0.8.1 release - this would have
generated an error message but otherwise had no effect on functionality.

One new feature has been added to the program - it is now possible to
specify that images should be shown in reverse date order, i.e. most
recently taken pictures first, in both the main window and in any
generated albums. In the main window, the program will default to this
new behaviour. To revert to the old behaviour, i.e. display images from
oldest to newest, click View --> Most recent first on the menubar. From
within the album editor, there is now a 'Show most recent images first'
checkbox which does the same thing. Note that if you change this for any
existing albums, you will need to rebuild the album for the change to
take effect.

I will make further releases of PIMP under version number 0.9.x for the
rest of this year as and when bugs are reported to me. Sometime during
January 2006, version 1.0 of PIMP will then be released and this will
effectively mark the end of the PIMP development effort.

Changelog:
    - added a checkable menu item to the main window to allow the picture
      sort order to be reversed
    - pixmap file 'black.jpg' was missing from the distribution manifest
    - changed the sort order so that the most recent picturess are shown
      first in the main window
    - added a checkbox to the album editor to allow albums to be built
      with the most recent images on the first page if required
    - Hiding the image import filters in the filter select dialog and
      then pressing the 'last import' button was causing an exception.
      The 'last import' button is now disabled if you hide the image
      import filters.