The Shotwell open-source image viewer and organizer that is installed by default in various GNU/Linux distributions has been recently updated to version 0.27, a major release that adds numerous improvements and fixes annoying bugs.
Shotwell 0.27 is now the latest stable release of the application, and some of the best new features included are faster color transformations, a configurable image background, –fullscreen/-f command-line option for the viewer, as well as histogram and thumbnailer improvements.
There’s also support for the Meson build system, something that most apps from the GNOME Stack are getting these days, and it looks like Shotwell 0.27 finally removes the F-Spot import support. The VAAPI blacklisting was updated as well for the new video thumbnailer and new plugin structure.
GTK+ 3.18 or later is now required
Other noteworthy improvements included in Shotwell 0.27 include a new command-line utility to allow users to test image … (read more)
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