version 0.1 (May 9 1999)
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* initial public release

version 0.2 (May 15 1999)
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* chbg can now act as screensaver (use option -screensaver)
* inteval is now float value -> you can specify lower period than 1 minute
* pictures bigger than half of screen are shown in smart mode when 
  selected tile or mirror mode

version 0.3 (May 23 1999)
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* added picture name drop to picture list based on Steffen Kern patch for pavuk
* added "Select All" button to picture selection dialog
* added toolbar
* added preview window to picture selection dialog
* all fileselection dialogs now remembers last selected file/directory
* added support for xscreensaver (with 8 bit display  you should use default
  colormap for xscreensaver window)
* preview menu field in picture list for previewing listed pictures
* new -blank option
* removed some bugs

version 0.4 (May 30 1999)
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* repared bug in writing scenario files
* per picture properties
* Japanese translation of messages
* new randomize algoritm

version 0.5 (Juny 07 1999)
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* repared typo in randomize code
* background color added to per picture properties
* optional support for Eterm transparent mode by Nagano Daisuke

version 0.6 (Jul 16 1999)
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* optional picture changing efects
* new option -R allows to scan directories for pictures
* several bugfixes
* reinitializing of locale environment variables for proper functionality in
  internationalized environment

version 0.6pl1 (Aug 02 1999)
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* fixed portability problems to SYS V systems (setenv/unsetenv)
* new picture changing efects

version 0.6pl2 (Aug 30 1999)
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* fixed segfaults when blanking screen
* new -inwindow option to run chbg in own toplevel window
* new -windowid to run chbg in foreign X window

version 0.7 (Sep 13 1999)
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* fixed oddly redraw, when using efects and inwindow preview
* several new picture changing efects
* setup window can now live while changing pictures - more interactivity
* new option -run

version 0.8 (Nov 11 1999)
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* new French message catalog by Jean-Pierre PEDRON
* new -pattern option for pattern checking in recursive traversing 
  throught directories
* all picture names are converted to absolute simplified path
* changed all numbers for picture changing efects
* implemented background shading efects
* randomizing of background color implemented
* new option -cycle_blank for cycling blank screens optionaly with
  enabled shading and colors randomizing

version 0.8pl1 (Nov 17 1999)
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* many new shading efects
* new picture changing effect

version 0.9 (Jan 14 2000)
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* changed UI layout
* added new option -min_psize for rejecting small pictures when recursing
  directories
* new options -deffects for disabling some effects when randomizing effects
* new options -dshaders for disabling some shaders when randomizing shaders
* added statusbar at bottom of config window
* speedup of some slow picture changing effects
* named all picture changing effects (thank to Adam Sleight)
* added manual page (thank to Mikko Kilponen)
* different bug fixes (thank to Adam Sleight)
* new button for reseting configuration (idea by Adam Sleight)
* fixed behavior of -R option with -pattern & -max_psize options (thank to
  Adam Sleight)
* fixed many random bugs (thank to Adam Sleight reports)
* language & spelling fixes of messages (thank to Martin Pool and
  Adam Sleight)

version 0.9pl1 (Feb ?? 2000)
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* many UI changes (proposed by Adam Sleight)
* added tooltips (proposed by Adam Sleight)
* fixed bugs when running without selected any pictures in screensaver mode
  or in own toplevel window
* moved sources to src/ directory
* made abstarction layer for picture loading & handling libraries
* implemented loaders for Imlib1, gdk_imlib1, gdk-pixbuf, Imlib2
* fixed bug which causes some random disapearing of setup window when stoping
* many new background shading effects
* fixed few broken picture changing effects
* new dialog for previewing shading effects

version 1.0 (May 29 2000)
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* adjusted and corrected all Makefile.am files and configure.in script for
  better functionality
* several new fractal based shading effects
* new thumbnail preview window
* added chance to change number of iterations in frctal based background
  shading effects (option -friter)
* added chance to change size of used size rectangle in picture changing
  effects (option -rect_size)
* implemented saving of configured shortcuts to ~/.chbg_prop file
* implemented preserving of list of n last used scenarios
* new better looking logo in About dialog
* new posibility to use GIMP gradients with shading effects 
  (options -grad_dir, -grad, -use_grad)
* new per page thumbnails preview window
* new per directory thumbnails preview dialog
* added Refresh button to Shaders preview dialog
* tooltips in shader prview now shows used Gradient or Colors
* you can now doubleclick selected shader in preview dialog to be shown
  in desktop background window
* rewrote engine for adding new shading effects
* enhanced thumbnails preview to be able to preview images fullscreen or set
  image as wallpaper (left button doubleclick - view picture, 
                      midle button doubleclick - fullscreen view,
		      right singleclick - menu for selecting acctions)
* huge amount of new beautifull fractal based shading effects
* added progressbar to thumbnail & shaders preview dialog
* added chance to preview shading effects in standalone resizable window
* added Gnome menu entry file to distribution
* improved picture preview dialog
* added fullscreen preview
* added slideshow posibility to picture preview
* added support for gdk-pixbuf >= 0.7.0 
* added posibility to open pictures with external prorams using RMB menus
* added posibility to set properties to multiple selected picture list entries
* added posibility to save shading effects as PNG picture of specified size
* added posibility to open shading effects pictures in other programs using
  PNG image format
* implemented removing of pictures from thumbnails previewer
* changed shaders preview to show shaders on multiple pages
* corrected Makefiles and .spec file to properly build RPMS
* fixed one dirty long living bug which causes segfault when you run in one
  session screensaver mode and also root_window mode
* added posibility to remember last picture and retore it in next chbg 
  session (thanks to Emmanuel Guyot's patch)
* added posibility to switch picture from outside of ChBg by using of
  USR1 signal (thanks to Emmanuel Guyot's patch)
* fixed segfault when popping multiple times per picture properties dialog
* updated message catalogs (many thanks to authors)

version 1.0.1 (Jun 19 2000)
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* got rid of few GDK warnings when stoping during changing effects
* corrected scenario file updating when -remember option is active and
  recursion through directories is enabled (thanks to Emmanuel Guyot)
* implenmented sorting of pictures (thanks to Emmanuel Guyot's patch)
* implemented smother&faster scroling of picture view in scrolled view
  using window backing pixmaps.
* fixed minor bug in shaders preview dialog
* two new shading effects
* added five new picture rendering modes - center tiled, integer tiled,
  symetrical tiled, integer mirrored and symetrical mirrored
* fixed bug with fast respawning when only one picture is in list

version 1.1 (Oct 05 2000)
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* fixed detection of libpng & libImlib2 in configure script (thanks to Gabor
  Z. Papp)
* fixed bug in shader preview dialog which causes Gdk warnings and posibily
  also segfaults in cases when you change number of simultanously shown
  thumbnails
* changed functionality of thumbanil preview to allow selection of multiple
  images to perform actions
* increased number of possible external editors to 15, because power of this
  feature allows with current thumbnailer preview to do many interested things
  like batch processing of all selected pictures with external commands ...
* added partial support for setting background images via Enlightenment
  (thanks to Aaron Lehmann)
* added few new shading effects
* added posibility to scale&copy convert&copy selected image files in thumbnail
  view using program convert from ImageMagick package
* fixed routines for preserving accelerator keys for menu items
* changed way of selecting image library in configure script, now use
  --with-image-library=[auto/imlib1/imlib2/gdkimlib/gdkpixbuf] instead of
  --disable-*
* added new option -once to enable setting background and exit (thanks to Yura)
* added few default external programs to Open with menu
* fixed bug with when removed pictures from thumbnail preview remained in 
  internal lists and caused bad behaviour when using next/previous 
  traversing through pictures
* fixed infinite recursion bug when backward pointing symbolic links are found
* improved the image remove confirmation dialog
* added dialog for renaming images
* added option -thumb for direct launch of  thumbnail views without chbg's main 
  window
* added support for gtk+-1.3 (aka gtk+-2.0) with included gdk_pixbuf
* updated japanese message catalog (thanks to Daisuke Nagano)

