digiKam wins TUX 2008 Readers Choice Award
Submitted by cauliergilles on Fri, 2008-05-02 13:07.
digiKam has been awarded again as the TUX 2008 Readers' Choice Award in the category Favorite Digital Photo Management Tool.
We are very proud we received this prize, especially because it is a prize for which the users have voted.
TUX is the a magazine for the new Linux user and is dedicated to promoting and simplifying the use of Linux on the PC.
The team thanks all peoples who has voted for digiKam.digiKam 0.9.4-beta4 release
Submitted by cauliergilles on Tue, 2008-04-29 11:26.The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-beta4. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well.
NEW FEATURES (since 0.9.3):
General : Updated internal CImg library to last stable 1.2.8 (released at 2008/04/18).
General : New search text filter for all metadata sidebar tabs.
digiKam 0.9.4-beta3 release
Submitted by cauliergilles on Tue, 2008-04-08 14:12.The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-beta3. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well.
NEW FEATURES (since 0.9.3):
General : Creation of tags simplified everywhere. Multiple Tags hierarchy can be created at the same time. Tags creation dialog re-designed.
digiKam : Google summer of code - call for students
Submitted by cauliergilles on Mon, 2008-03-31 20:53.If you are a student interested in a paid summer internship with Google, mentored by members of the digiKam team, please get in contact with us now.
Important: Application deadline: April 7 2008
Possible projects are:
1/ Advanced image resize for image editor
==> KDE3 and KDE4
2/ New High Dynamic Range (HDR) plugin
==> KDE3 and KDE4
This could involve
- contrast masking
digiKam 0.9.4-beta2 release
Submitted by cauliergilles on Mon, 2008-03-24 15:12.The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-beta2. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well.
Note! This release works only with the latest libkdcraw and libkexiv2. You either have to compile them freshly from svn or wait a few days until the tarballs become available.
NEW FEATURES (since 0.9.3):
General:
digiKam 0.9.4-beta1 release
Submitted by gerhard on Sun, 2008-03-09 11:32.Dear all digiKam fans and users!
The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-beta1. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well.
Note! This release works only with the latest libkdcraw and libkexiv2. You either have to compile them freshly from svn or wait a few days until the tarballs become available.
NEW FEATURES:
General :
1. Color theme scheme are pervasively applied in graphical interfaces, giving digiKam a real Pro-look when dark schemes are selected.
1a. Color theme scheme can be changed from either Editor or LightTable.
Wanted: new slogan, logo and website design
Submitted by gerhard on Mon, 2008-02-18 21:10.DigiKam has come a long way since the early beginnings in 2002. It has come of age and deserves new cloths or a new 'corporate design' in today's parlance.
To find a new slogan, a new logo, iconized slash screen and web design has been itching me and others for quite a while now. But those are sensitive and difficult subjects, in particular for us amateurs in that field.
A contest is herewith opened to create such new cloths, closing end of march 2008. We shall then make a pre-selection and vote on the best candidates. I will act as coordinator and point of contact. Please supply your proposals to gerhard at kulzer dot net.
Guide lines:
- Photography and FOSS should be the general context.
Altitude information available in kipi Geolocator plugin (3D info)
As of yesterday, and from svn checkout only, when locating images with the kipi-plugin Geolocator, the altitude information is provided in addition to the lon, lat coordinated.
In the KDE4 0.10 version this works also in the tracklist mode where you can show and geolocate several images at the same time.
digiKam has a new Time-Line view!
Submitted by cauliergilles on Sun, 2008-01-20 23:10.My first approach of Time-Line have been describe in this blog entry, including this tool in calendar view. This way been limited and unadapted because calendar view is not a Search view as well. To solve this problem, i have created a new left sidebar tab named "timeline"...
See below an advanced description of Time-Line tool in action:
digiKam 0.9.4 splashscreens : call to photographers...
Submitted by cauliergilles on Sun, 2007-12-30 12:26.SplashScreen is a simple way for users to contribute to digiKam project. The pictures must be correctly exposed and composed, and the subject must be choosen using a real photographer inspiration.