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Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Debarshi Ray <[email protected]>
Copyright (C) 2009 Santanu Sinha <[email protected]>
All rights reserved.

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Solang - A photo manager for GNOME
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Website: http://projects.gnome.org/solang

Motivation for the project
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The idea is to develop a free photo manager that will use Tracker as a
meta-data store and act as a front-end to directory based local
storage as well as remote photo-storage systems. 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"?
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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, enlarged and slideshow renderers for viewing the entire
  collection, editing, a single photo and slideshows respectively.
- Exporters to export selected photos to a folder or CD/DVD.
- Date view for showing photo dates.
- Basic editing like brightness, contrast, flipping, rotation,
  saturation and scaling, and undo, redo of operations.
- Ability to copy a set of applied operations from one photo and paste
  it onto others.
- 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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 - babl
 - libarchive >= 2.8.0
 - libbrasero-burn >= 2.28.3 & libbrasero-media >= 2.28.3 (optional)
 - dbus-glib-1
 - gdl-1.0
 - gegl
 - gtkimageview
 - gtkmm-2.4 >= 2.8
 - tracker-client-0.8

Packages are available for Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu.

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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 Conduit
(http://www.conduit-project.org/). These are copyrighted by John
Stowers <[email protected]>, and originally licensed under the
GNU General Public License version 2.

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The following pieces of artwork were borrowed from Eye of GNOME
(http://projects.gnome.org/eog/). These are copyrighted by Andreas
Nilsson <[email protected]> and Michael Montreal
<[email protected]>, and originally licensed under the GNU
General Public License version 2 or later.

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

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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.