Pony is a KDE based image manager. The main feature is to create Collections out of removable devices and watch/search the thumbnails offline (when the media is not attached).
New features in this release:

• shortcut key ‘u’ to get the upload to flickr dialog
• Hot keys: Now one can assign hotkeys using numeric key board , right now only %f (selected filename) is supported there.

Download the source or you can use this yum repo for Fedora 11.

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• It can search for word(s) in a given directory or some selected files. The result will be saved as an HTML file or can also be seen in the command line. By using this features one can check consistency of usage
• It can create single word based list from the given .po files. It will contain both the term and translated string(s)
• It can check for any unattached dependent vowel sign. Right now it can find that for the Indic languages. Like ি and া can not sit beside

To know more about different options read here.

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This release is having many bug fixes and also new features.

Like:

• One can create media catalog (DVD or removable medias)
• Search media catalogs based on tags
• Flickr image uploading is now smoother
• While in FullScreen image viewing one can use mouse whell to browse through images

Here is a preview of the new catalog options

If you are using Fedora 11 , you can add my repo as building and pushing to the Fedora repos may take some time. To do so just drop this in your /etc/yum.repos.d/

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You can download the source from here.

Documentation can be found here.

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For RPM(s) , download from koji.

New features and fixes:

• Preview option fixed in the KDE based frontend, old menu based options removed
• Editing option for the last 10 blog posts. Users please tell me if you need to get more
• Insert Link error in the gnome frontend is fixed
• Add categories is also working under gnome frontend (forgot to write code in the last release)
• “Save Draft” option on the gnome frontend is also working (Again forgot to write the code)

If you want to go back from the “Old Posts” list in the gnome frontend , just select anything the list and press “Escape”, in KDE one, there is a button on top to handle this.

To edit the entries you have to double click on the post title.

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New features:

• Tag support
• UI improvement for editing last entry
• Bug #507518 fixed

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$rm ~/.pony.db


Among new features one can now see the EXIF information of an image.

Deleting tag option is also added.

Get the source or rpms from here.

Now I have to add TODO file as too many things need to be fixed. If you have any suggestions please mail me or file a ticket.

Pony is a simple image manager written in PyKDE4.

Few weeks back I lost my external hdd where I kept most of the photographs I took in last two year. It is kind of heartbreaking. But first thing came in my mind is not to get into this kind of situation again. So, decided to backup photos also in DVD(s).

But the problems started at the same time, if I do so, how can I figure out which photo is in which disk ? I know digikam is having a feature like this (to have external collections) but last time when I tried that it never worked. Though I am mostly a KDE user but I was using gthumb as image viewer except when I click on dolphin which opens up gwenview.

My workflow:

1. Take photographs
2. Copy them in hdd using File browser (Dolphin)
3. View them using gthumb
4. if required right and edit using gimp
5. Upload the image to flickr

As I keep my photographs ordered in directories, gthumb is very helpful and I like the UI as it does not provide most of the fancy stuffs other image managers do.

After looking for few days I decided to write my own image manager which can suite properly with the simple workflow I follow.

The design goals:

• It takes some amout of time to create thumbnails when the user visits a folder first time, but after that it stays fast as I really don’t mind for the time on the first view. I tried with a folder which contained 13GB images.
• Currently shows only jpeg images as we generally keep photos in that format
• One can add tags to the images, currently no edit tag option is available
• One can search based on tags (implemented), name or EXIF data or based on dates
• Even if the file is in an external media it should show the thumbnail
• It is having a flickr uploader. Currently it only adds title,tags,description. Photosets and privacy&safety will work in future releases
• One should be able to add/edit/delete external medias as catalogs

Now this is a very basic form of the code base continously being hacked. Most of the planned stuffs still needs to be written. To get the thumbnails fast I kept them in db (still the db seems to be small ) and used a web framework based ORM to do so, yes it is Django :p. I know one may complain of this dependency but it is so nice that I couldn’t leave it :)

MathStuf and Kevin_Kofler in #fedora-kde , #qt and Riddell ,pinotree, annma helped a lot to learn different pieces of KDE and Qt. nicubunu did extensive testing from the very beginning. Thank you guys for your support.

I still need to improve the UI so any help is welcome :)

Btw, the name of the project came as suggestion from sankarshan and mether.

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The new features of this release are:

* Add Category
* Spell Check enable/disable
* Edit last entry

I never blogged about a few last releases, I moved the codebase to PyKDE4. It is using KWallet service to store the password. If you don’t want to use kwallet (like you are a gnome user), it will ask you to type-in the details every time.

Download tarball, F-10 rpm (pushed to stable), F-11 rpm

Main reason is to add spellcheck support, which looks very easy in KDE land than Qt.