Copyright (C) 2009 Debarshi Ray <rishi@gnu.org>
Copyright (C) 2009 Santanu Sinha <santanu.sinha@gmail.com>
All rights reserved.

Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are preserved.

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Solang - A photo manager for GNOME
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Website: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/solang

Motivation for the project
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The idea is to develop a free photo manager that will act as a front-end for
directory based local storage as well as remote photo-storage systems, as can
be said, on the "Cloud". Basic editing support is also planned as well as a
small pipelaine for RAW processing. Please check the TODO file for more
details.

Another motivation for this project is to break the performance charecteristics
of current popular photo management softwares and provide a fast and reliable
alternative that does not place humongous demands on user's hardware resources
even to meet basic functionality.

Why is it called "Solang"?
--------------------------
While looking for a random name, we noticed the name on one of our office
workstations. It was called "solang" and so we stand here today with this name.

Also, take a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solang_valley

Features:
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- Browser, editor and enlarged renderer for viewing the entire collection,
  editing and a single photo respectively.
- Camera, Flickr and folder importer to import photos from cameras in PTP mode
  Flickr and folders respectively.
- Date view for showing photo dates.
- Basic editing like rotation and flipping, and undo, redo of operations.
- Support for tagging photos and Exif data.
- Thumbnails for showing RAW files in the browser renderer.
- Search basket for drag and drop search using multiple tags, Exif fields
  and/or dates.

Dependencies:
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 - cairomm-1.0
 - exiv2 >= 0.18
 - flickcurl
 - libgdamm-3.0 <= 3.0.1
 - libgda-sqlite-3.0
 - gdl-1.0
 - giomm-2.4
 - glibmm-2.4
 - libgphoto2
 - gtkimageview
 - gtkmm-2.4 >= 2.8
 - libsoup-2.4
 - webkit-1.0

The following patches are required on gdl 2.24:

  1) Fix for GNOME Bug # 566801 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/566801>
     - Corrsponding Debian Bug:
            http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530828
     - Patch:
            http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/libgdl/F-10/libgdl-2.24.0-docking-undocking-reset.patch?view=markup
     - For Fedora 10 users an update will fix this issue.

  2) Fix for GNOME Bug #584418 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/584418>
     - Patch: http://rishi.fedorapeople.org/libgdl-2.24.0-paned-dock.patch
     - Updates on their way to Fedora 10.

Gio::File::make_directory_with_parents():
  - This function was implemented in Glibmm 2.20. Users of Debian Sid will
    already have this on their system.
  - Fedora 10 users will get this by an update.

As of today, Solang runs properly on:
  - Fedora 10 with updates
  - Debian Sid with GDL patches

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Solang is licensed under the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.

The following pieces of artwork were borrowed from F-Spot (http://f-spot.org/).
These are copyrighted by Jakub Steiner <jimmac@ximian.com> and Novell, and
originally licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.

+ data/camera-photo-16.png
+ data/camera-photo-22.png
+ data/camera-photo-24.png
+ data/camera-photo-32.png
+ data/camera-photo.svg
+ data/mode-browse-16.png
+ data/mode-browse-22.png
+ data/mode-browse-24.png
+ data/mode-browse-32.png
+ data/mode-image-edit-16.png
+ data/mode-image-edit-22.png
+ data/mode-image-edit-24.png
+ data/tag-16.png
+ data/tag-22.png
+ data/tag-new-16.png
+ data/tag-new-22.png
+ data/tag-new-24.png
+ data/view-far-16.png
+ data/view-far-22.png
+ data/view-far-24.png
+ data/view-near-16.png
+ data/view-near-22.png
+ data/view-near-24.png

We are thankful to the respective copyright owners for letting us use and
distribute these files as a part of Solang under our own licensing terms as
mentioned above.
