Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Debarshi Ray <rishi@gnu.org>
Copyright (C) 2009 Santanu Sinha <santanu.sinha@gmail.com>
All rights reserved.

Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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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 act as a front-end for
directory based local storage as well as remote photo-storage systems, as can
be said, on the "Cloud". 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
 - libbrasero-burn >= 2.28.3
 - dbus-glib-1
 - gdl-1.0
 - gegl
 - gtkimageview
 - gtkmm-2.4 >= 2.8
 - tracker-client-0.7 >= 0.7.16

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
<john.stowers@gmail.com>, 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
<nisses.mail@home.se> and Michael Montreal <michael.monreal@gmx.net>, 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 <jimmac@ximian.com> 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.