gThumb fixes a bug in 2.12.1 (and have I mentioned lately how much I love gThumb?)

I'm on the gThumb mailing list now, and my current favorite developer Paolo Bacchilega (so favored because he's working on my favorite application and improving it all the time) recently announced that gThumb 2.12.1 is out and has fixed the one bug I've found in 2.12.0, which was a tendency to crash when you monkey around in a file manager with the same directory you're in with gThumb.

Thanks, Paolo. When your talking about photojournalism and editing news photos for Web publication, there's really no tool better than gThumb. KDE's digiKam is a close second, but gThumb is just that much better. And the improvements in 2.11 with refinements in 2.12 have made gThumb better than ever for editing news photos. Aside from cropping, reducing size and full editing of IPTC caption metadata, gThumb is a great way to organize photos as well. It's extremely light, doesn't bother with an external database and because of that very lack of dependency doesn't lock you in to any single photo-managing application.

I can't wait for gThumb 2.12.1 to roll into Fedora. (Yes, I know I can build my own package, but I'm very bad at that sort of thing, and I'm happy to wait for Fedora's Koji Build System to cough up a new package for Fedora 13.)