cheese tour

What is Cheese?

Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others. It was written as part of Google's 2007 Summer of Code lead by daniel g. siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx. Under the hood, Cheese uses GStreamer to apply fancy effects to photos and videos. With Cheese it is easy to take photos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want and share them with others. After a success of the Summer of Code, the development continued and we still are looking for people with nice ideas and patches ;)

What are the Requirements?

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  • GNOME 2.24
  • GStreamer 0.10
  • postr for Flickr export (optional)
  • f-spot for F-Spot export (optional)
  • nautilus-sendto for improved export (optional)
  • a webcam
  • a brain

For a more detailed list of requirements, have a look at the README file

Bugs

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Well, if you want to keep them, they are yours, we donate them to you! But if you want to bug some people and kick some ass, you should report them to the GNOME Bug Tracking System. by filing your bug here.
Also, please try to test your bug against the SVN version of Cheese first. Your problem may already be fixed!

Mailing list

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Do you want a little discussion about Cheese? Do you want to start flames, because there is no effect which makes you look like Arnold Schwarzenegger? Do you want to complain, because there is no filter, which simulates an ice-cream? Join our mailing list (You have to join the list to send mails to it)

Press and User Reactions

News

September 22nd 2008

Stable version 2.24.0 was released! New in this release

  • update the cheese dependencies
  • use the correct translated plural form when deleting more than one item from the thumbnail bar
  • do not add a new item to the thumbnail bar, if its already there
  • documentation update, courtesy of Joshua Henderson
  • added/updated translations
Download it (full release notes)

September 8th 2008

Unstable version 2.23.92 was released! New in this release

  • old photos and videos (before 2.24) are now available in cheese 2.24
  • cheese crashes no more when no device is set in gconf
  • display toolbar when entering into fullscreen mode
  • documentation update
  • added/updated translations
Download it (full release notes)

September 1st 2008

Unstable version 2.23.91 was released! New in this release

  • cheese.desktop file now respects freedesktop SPEC
  • add the dynamic bindir to the dbus file
  • update waf to 1.4.3 and make it working again
  • added/updated translations
Download it (full release notes)