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Thu Aug 16 2001
Fixed versions of RedHat RPMS ... added /usr/share/control-center/.data/ChBgxss3.desktop file to RPMS. Thanks to Evert Verhellen.
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Wed Aug 08 2001
ChBg version 1.5 was released. It contains new config files for gnomecc screensaver-properties-capplet contributed by Evert Verhellen. There is new support for generating pictures into PNG files ... that allows support for KDE2 and Natilus programs, because both paint desktop and only way to force it to use own background is to save it to file. Also now ChBg can be used to change background of rxvt and other smart terminals. Thanks to all people who helped me with ideas, testing and especialy to those who contributed translations and other things.
 
Thu July 26 2001
There is available updated French message catalog (po,mo) - thanks to Jean-Pierre Pedron. And at http://packages.debian.org/chbg are also new Debian packages - thanks to Jochen Voss.
 
Wed July 18 2001
ChBg version 1.4 was released. There is improved usability with Enlightenment WM. Fixed code for cooperation xscreensaver. Code for setting desktop background pixmap propery for transparent terminals was replaced with code taken from gnomecc. There are also some other minor changes and fixes. Many thanks to all who helped me with this release!
 
Thu Jan 25 2001
ChBg version 1.3 was released. There is very improved functionality, which allows multilevel composition of background pictures. Many thanks to all who helped me with this release!
 
Tue Nov 21 2000
ChBg version 1.2 was released. The only new thing in this version is support for alpha transparency of pictures and center and smart mode. Also several bugs were fixed.
 
Fri Oct 06 2000
Updated French message catalog by Jean-Pierre PEDRON. It is availbale for download from Internationalization page.
 
Thu Oct 05 2000
ChBg version 1.1 was released. This version contains significantly improved thumbnail preview dialog with tools to remove or rename selected image files, with tools to batch convert images formats and with another tool for batch scaling of images. Now is possible to use directly thumbnail previews without starting chbg setup program. Add support for manage desktop background pictures via Enlightenment. Significantly was improved reliability of code for preserving assigned menu shortcuts. And also several bugs from previous version was fixed. To see full list of changes check changelog or source code :-). As always I want to say big THANKS! to people who helped me to improve chbg. Special thank to Adam Sleight for suggestions and his patience with testing extensively chbg, to Nagano Daisuke for his work on Japanes translation and to all other peoples who helped me with their suggestions and proposals.
 
Mon June 19 2000
ChBg version 1.0.1 was released. It contains patches from Emmanuel Guyot which fixes bug I have made with option -remember and add posibilty to sort alphabeticaly list of pictures. On request from Juhapekka Tolvanen I have added five new picture rendering modes. This version of ChBg also contains much smoother scrolled picture preview and several othere minor changes. Thanks to Daisuke Nagano and Jean-Pierre Pedron for quick update of their message catalogs. And thanks to Adam and other people for their suggestions.
 
Wed May 31 2000
Japanese message catalog in latest version seems to be broken. Nagano Daisuke (the author of this catalog) said it is probably because of broken msgmerge programm which is unable to handle multi-byte characters. So if you use it, please download corrected version from Internationalization page.
 
Tue May 30 2000
ChBg version 1.0 is out. There is bunch of changes. I have added many new picture shading effects based on different types of fractals. There is new posibility to color shading effects with many colors based on use of Gimp gradients. Also now ChBg can be used as picture viewer with thumbnails, slideshows, ... . I want to thank too much to people who helped me to improve and develope chbg. Special thanks to Adam Sleight for his valuable suggestions and ideas, for his great help with testing and for all the rest ... Also another special thanks to translators for prompt updates of message catalogs . And finaly many thanks belongs to Emmanuel Guyot for his excelent patches.
 
Wed Feb 23 2000
ChBg version 0.9pl1 is out. There is huge number of changes in UI, added optional support for loading pictures with gdk_imlib, gdk_pixbuf, Imlib1 or Imlib2, fixed many bugs. Many thanks I want to say to Adam Sleight, who helped me too much with his great ideas, proposals and bug reports. Also many thank to translators and other people who helped me to improve ChBg.
 
Fri Jan 14 2000
ChBg version 0.9 is out. There is several bug fixes, new option for limiting minimal acceptable size of picture in recursive mode and some UI changes.
 

 
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Last Update: Aug 08 18:05:00 MET 2001
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