[Kde-announce-apps] Reveal 1.1

[Will Stokes]

Name: Reveal
Version: 1.1
Type: Graphic Tool
Depend: Qt 4.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=30685

Description:
 Reveal is an easy to use, cross platform EXIF
metadata viewer with limited editing capabilities.
Reveal was designed to present as many details
about how a photo was taken in a clear and easy to
understand format.

Changelog:
 Version 1.1 - 4/17/2006

Major Improvements:

-Internationalization support (translations
automatically installed and updated)
-Ported to Qt4
-Upgraded libexiv2 to 0.9.1
-Added read support for CRW files
-Thumbnail auto rotated using
Exif.Photo.Orientation tag
-You can now expand an image's thumbnail by
hovering over it and clicking the expand button
-Current filename displayed in title bar
-Under OSX you can now drop files on the
application in the finder and the dock
-Added shooting mode icons for portrait, night
portrait, auto, close up, landscape, night scene,
and action
-Universal binary for Mac OSX users
-IPTC metadata can now be viewed within the
details pane
-EXIF and IPTC metadata can now be exported to
either text or XML
-Reveal now remembers the window position, size,
default path to load files from, and last tab
shown
-Unsaved editing changes can be undone by
reloading metadata using Tools->Reload Metadata
-Fixed handling of file names that include
non-latin characters
-Fixed drag-n-drop for Linux/BSD users

Minor Improvements:

-Keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs
-Keyboard shortcut to toggle editing
-Under OSX you can minimize the app using
Command+M
-Added commas to displayed resolution (e.g. 1,234
x 5,678)
-EXIF detail groups now sorted: Image, Photo, Iop,
Thumbnail, all others are listed at the end
alphabetically
-EXIF and IPTC specifications can be found by
clicking on the respective headers before each
section in the details pane
-Windows and Linux users can pass filenames to
Reveal when launching from the command line
-Cleaner about window which includes clickable web
site URL
-Location of exiv2 includes and libraries
automatically determined when compiling under
Linux/FreeBSD
-Fixed a bug in hours were stored in Exif data for
12am (mignight) and 12pm (noon) (Thanks to Nigel
Goodman for 
reporting this)
-When loading additional photos the Details pane
auto scrolls to the top.
-Fixed a bug when editing a photo that only has a
make or model tag resulted in an extra space at
the end of the camera field.
-Mac OSX Disk image has a branded icon

Metadata Interface Improvements: 

-Made use of CanonCs1.FlashMode and
CanonCs1.FlashActivity to decipher flash activity
-Made use of Exif.CanonCs1.MeteringMode to
decipher the Metering mode
-Added support the following Nikon D70s shooting
modes: 
Sport, Portrait, Night Scene, Night Portrait,
Close Up, Landscape, Auto, Flexible Automatic
-Added support for the following Canon shooting
modes: Night Scene, Close Up
-Added support for the following Fuji shooting
modes: Night Scene
-Fixed a few bugs detecting and setting the focus
mode for some Nikon cameras.
-Removed ISO limit, which previosly prevented ISO
values < 50 from being set.
This was a hack to help fix ISO values for buggy
older digital cameras that are only rumored to
exist.
Film users that want to be able to set ISO values
< 50 do exist so removed hack.
-Changed references from Exif.CanonCs2.0x0002 to
Exif.CanonCs2.ISOSpeed
-Worked around a compiler bug (?) which caused
converted ISO values using Exif