yeah, so long.. soc is finished by about 34 minutes ago and cheese is about 95% of my expectations and initial proposal. of course i wont stop here, and develop cheese further on, with some kick-assing-ideas until we finally can teach people, that some fresh cheese is even better than premorse apples..

now this is the real "dot-oh"-release, even if there is a "one" at the end, have fun with it!

what is it?

Cheese is a Photobooth-inspired GNOME application for taking pictures and videos from a webcam. It also includes fancy graphical effects based on the gstreamer-backend.

what's changed in 0.2.1?

• improvement the video pipline. and i mean a LOT of improvement
• add a countdown, when taking a photo
• add a time counter to the video recording
• added the following export methods/capabilities:
  • open the file with gnome-open
  • save as dialog
  • delete
  • send by mail
  • export to flickr
  • export to f-spot
  • set as account photo
• we found the bug! v4l works now, courtesy of Patryk Zawadzki
• added a popupmenu to the iconview
• added some parts of the lucas(R)-eye of gnome iconview
• if the same effects were chosen in photo and video, they wont apply. fixed
• the first item in the iconbar wasnt deleted. fixed
• updated translations:
  • cs, courtesy Vítězslav Kotrla
  • de
  • fr, courtesy of Pierre Slamich
  • it, courtesy of Alessandro Falappa
  • nl, courtesy of Wouter Bolsterlee
  • pt, courtesy of Miguel Rosa

where can i get it?

check out the cheese homepage, which is pretty old

what does it look like?

this screenshot is a special one, dedicated to one of the great guys of gnome