Shotwell 0.4 Released – Brings Facebook/Flickr Uploading

By , Published December 24, 2009

Version 0.4 of photo management/editing application Shotwell has been released – a day after we featured it as one of our 12 best applications of 2009. Nothing like timing!

New Stuff
A short overview of 0.4 sees the Yorba company application gain: -

  • Facebook and Flickr uploading support
  • Authentication done in-app
  • New translations including Polish, Estonian and Swedish (tack!)

In Yorba’s announcement informing of the release they hint at some more integration with web services to come… 

We have big plans on making Shotwell play well on the Web and with other Web services, so stay tuned.

We featured a more comprehensive review of 0.4 in our previous article. A few snippets are pasted below.

Facebook & Flickr Uploading

The next release of Shotwell, due to arrive before the end of the year,
will see Flickr and Facebook ‘publishing’ enter the feature set.

Shotwell 0.4 also comes with its own Photo viewer. This allows users to
edit photos without importing them into the main application itself – a
gripe that F-Spot suffers from.

Editing works the same as in the application itself – presenting really annoying floating palettes containing the tools.

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

Related posts:

  1. 12 Days of Xmas: Day Six – Shotwell (Plus a peek at Shotwell 0.4!)
  2. Shutter To Get Twitpic, yfrog etc Uploading Support
  3. Shotwell Image Manager 0.3.0 Reviewed
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  • daas88

    i hope they keep developing fast so ubuntu devs consider replacing f-spot.

  • Anonymous

    I’m having a hell of a time trying to get this to build. I followed all of the dependency instructions, built an up-to-date Vala and checked all my paths. Yet, when I try and do “make” in the Shotwell 0.4 build directory, I get the following error:

    “Shotwell requires Vala compiler 0.7.9 or greater. You are running Vala 0.7.9.”

    Any ideas?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Haha, i do so love seemingly dumb errors!

      My vala knowledge is minimal, but i (for some reason) ended up compiling vala myself.

      It might be worth installing vala-dev and trying again (and libvala, valac, etc for good measure)

      Alternatively you can run shotwell from it’s directory or add the yorba PPA and wait for it to update with 0.4

      https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa

    • Anonymous

      Sean,

      I work at Yorba, makers of Shotwell, and I noticed your post. We recently changed our code which checks the version of the Vala compiler and apparently something is not working right. Can you email me at adam@yorba.org with more information? In particular, what Linux distro are you using? Can you try building with Shotwell 0.4.1, which we just released today (Dec 24)? Thanks -

      adam

      • Anonymous

        Hi Adam, I will attempt to build Shotwell 0.4.1 within the next few days, and send any output of errors.

        Cheers!
        -Sean

  • Mohan

    Pretty cool, looks like this has some huge potential.

  • Anonymous

    How i can update my Shotwell to 0.4 version?

    • Anonymous

      ruslantrad,

      0.4 was just released, so if you want to try it out now you’ll need to build it yourself – see the instructions at http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/ShotwellInstallation . If you’re running Ubuntu and are using our PPA, you could wait a week or so – we’ll update the PPA to include 0.4 soon and then you’ll be offered an update automatically. If you have more questions, email me at adam@yorba.org or the Shotwell mailing list at shotwell@lists.yorba.org . Good luck!

      Adam Dingle
      Yorba

      • Anonymous

        Thank you very much for this information!

  • http://kroulee.com Brandon Sheppard

    This looks great. I really do displike F-Spot. I love your blog by the way. Easily my favourite Ubuntu blog. Keep the great posts coming!