I am happy to announce the second release of the canola flickr-plugin, available in extras since a few minutes.

The following changes were made since the last release:

* Added new folder "Search", which will contain the different search options
* Moved mainmenu items a little bit
* Added "Search by tag (global)" option which searches for tags in images of all users
* Added "Search groups" option to search for certain group names
* Updated Flickr search operations, filter results - show only photos, added tag_mode="all" - all specified tags must be includes in the search results
* Try to handle exception while downloading files to avoid corrupt files in the download folder
* Conflict with Canola2 beta10 to avoid breakage of the plugin when beta10 is about to be installed
* Changed internal structure of the Image-, Group- and Contactlistings to allow using the new page-switch widget of Canola2 beta10 like it is already used in the youtube plugin (not yet working)
* Speed up searching files in the local cache a lot
* Abort downloading images when you leave a image listing, this avoids a lot of unnecessary download traffic (the currently running download will be finished - this may result in adding the image twice to the image-list, if you leave and re-enter the same listing again before the download finished, this bug will be addressed soon)
* Check if enough space is available before downloading images, display error message ist not enough space is left
* Show meaningful messages when no items are found in the listings of photosets, contacts, photos, favorites and groups
* Added a "Add to favorites" option to the context-menu of images
* Depend on python-flickrapi (>= 1.2-1)
* Added an Info option to the context menu of images, which currently displays the name of the image, the owner of the image, the date the image was taken, a small thumbnail, the description and the tags of the image
* Added custom RowRenderers for listings of Photos, Photosets, Contacts and Groups, all of them are displaying a nice thumbnail and at least for Photos and Photosets, some additional information
* Added context menus to Photosets, Groups and Contacts, displaying some additional information about the corresponding item
* Renamed Interesting Images option to Explore, Explore now contains sub-options for showing the Interesting photos of the last 7 days
* Renamed "Latest Images" to Photostream, show the 30 newest photos instead of the 20 latest ones
* Added new option Tags under Explore, with the suboptions "Hot tags (today)" and "Hot tags (this week)", shows the "hottest" tags from flickr and the newest corresponding images
* Added "Recently uploaded photos" option to Explore page
* Added option to see the comments for photos in the photo context menu
* Delete /home/user/.canola/plugins.pickle in postinst when upgrading from an old version (< 0.0.4) to circumvent a problem with the new context options (would show up empty)

For some more details and screenshots, see my blog-post at http://blog.geekbu.de/2008/12/canola-flickr-010/.