4 months development time, uncountable hours of work, 170 svn revisions, about 50 fixed bugs, 40 new features, at least 2 easter..ehm christmas eggs and pretty high number of actual code changes. and yes, we are donating the numbers i mentioned above to YOU!
and yes you are right again, you can get our packaged parcel by pressing here.

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 0.3.0?

• add a shutter sound, when taking a photo
• sort the thumbnail chronologically
• make the effect chooser look a bit nicer
• give thumbnails a frame like in nautilus and eog. fixes bug #500819
• enable shortcuts if the mouse pointer is over the xoverlay. fixes bug #493196
• add new shortcuts
  • space for take a photo/start-stop recording
  • ctrl q for exiting
  • f1 for help
  • delete for removing a photo or video
• add a gconf backend
• chosen effects are stored in gconf. fixes bug #488834
• store the used webcam device in gconf. partially fixes bug #473038
• use a throbber, when the camera is loading
• add drag and drop support to the iconview
• vertical and horizontal flip were switched. fixes bug #479238
• many usability improvements. partially fixes bug #501337
• point to the right homepage in the about dialog
• add a boilerplate for a manual in cheese. partially fixes #480628
• make video and photo button a toggle button. fixes bug #498022
• make links on about dialog clickable. fixes bug #499425
• translate menu items created by gtkuimanager, fixes bug #500821
• change the first item in menu to "Cheese"
• add a "Move all to trash" option
• use gtkuimanager for the menu
• give the ability to record videos from the menu
• provide access to the effect chooser using the menu
• use radio buttons in the menu to change between photo and video mode
• use HAL to detect webcams
• make ximagesink an xvimagesink work for all cameras
• only use raw video formats. fixes bug #502174
• use the highest resolution for each camera
• add --verbose command line option, fixes bug #499399
• cheese was refactored and uses now a webcam class
• removed some memory leaks
• fixed many, many bugs
• added/updated translations
  • ar, courtesy of Djihed Afifi
  • ca, courtesy of Carlos Garcia Porcel
  • cs, courtesy of Vitezslav Kotrla
  • de, courtesy of Andre Klapper
  • el, courtesy of Athanasios Lefteris
  • es, courtesy of Jorge González
  • fr, courtesy of Pierre Slamich
  • gl, courtesy of Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
  • it, courtesy of Alessandro Falappa
  • nb, courtesy of Kjartan Maraas
  • oc, courtesy of Yannig Marchegay
  • pt, courtesy of Miguel Rosa
  • ro, courtesy of Anastase Valentin
  • sl, courtesy of Deni Bačić
  • sv, courtesy of Daniel Nylander

where can i get it?

you can get it by pressing here

what does it look like?

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with this christmas release we wish you all a happy christmas and a good start into the new year. we would love to get some christmas pictures of you and your friends, family, childrens, santas and reindeers ;)