I use gimp as the main post process tool for my photographs. Which is anyway a very powerful tool. But most of the options available there are not required for me. Looked for another application which  is lighter and powerful at the same time. I tried showfoto long back, never liked the UI that time. Thought of giving another try tonight.

I have a 0.10.0-beta5 installed in my F-9 system (the package came from rawhide though). After starting the application default options(buttons to click) look much lesser, cooler for eyes :)

I opened my raw image in it, took some time but came finally(Is there any chance to make it a bit faster ?). The first thing I tried was to adjust the level, found the desired dialogue after two clicks. All other basic required options are there in the color menu entry including brightness/saturation/channel mixer. Btw, F10 and F11 buttons will help you to see under and over exposed places in the shot.

Here is a snap edited in showfoto.

You can find my other shots here.

It seems I can now use it for post processing, which also means I am back to digikam once agian :)

I just sent a mail to the devel list.

This new version is having .pls playlist file support, so with proper plugins you can play internet radio stations.

More details can be found here.

So, if you want to play your favourite song/movie on OLPC use Jukebox.activity. Started working on this for the last few days after Sayam pointed me to the activity. It was almost in a stagnant condition.

My PyQt mind was someway different than writing this PyGtk stuff :) Sayam helped a lot.

The following features added as of now:

• Full Screen option
• Volume Control support
• Supporting m3u playlists
• Internet radios through m3u files.
• Next/Previous buttons , if you open a playlist with more than one song

Will do a formal release within this weekend. I have a .xo file ready for testing. Please provide your feedback :D

If you want to start writing your own activity , start from this.

This is a new weekly video podcast news. It is having two sections, general news and Fedora specific bits. The first edition is having many errors(human errors mostly) , will fix them in the next editions :)

Download the ogv (164MB).

In this edition of meet the contributor series we are happy to introduce Parag Nemade , currently the only sponsor for Fedora packaging from India. Still now he reviewed more than 625 packages. Watch it in youtube or download the ogg.

Today we have Rakesh Pandit talking in front of the camera. Watch it on youtube or download the ogg.

I just released translation-filter 0.3. You can download it from here.

The scope of development is to create a rudimentary tool that can allow comparing the quality of string translations in an offline mode. For example, the KDE Project uses a web based tool that allows strings to be searched in translated content.

The current set of requirements for this offline tool are:

• to be able to take as input a directory path containing multiple .po files
• to be able to take as input an English string or word to be searched within the .po files collection
• to be able to display every occurring instance of the English string or word along with equivalent translated string
• to be able to display the name of the files being searched
• to be able to save the search result set in an .html file

It uses PyQt4 for the gui, used QWebView to render the result. You will also require translate-toolkit (at least 1.0.1 version, available in Fedora 9).

Among the new features (mostly in the command line version) , using -t or --term you can search for any single term.  You can even check for unattached dependent vowel signs of Indic languages using -d option.

Here is Huzaifa Sidhpurwala who is the co-editor of Fedora Weekly News. You can find the video at youtube, ogg (22MB).

How to write Python using KDevelop, find it here.