digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins project merged into one...
For next digiKam 0.9.2 release, planed around June 07, DigikamImagePlugins package will disappear as a separate package.
They have been merged into svn during this week. I have been waiting to do it since a long time. After a discussion with digiKam team members (including some translators) on the mailing list, we have decided to perform the merging now. The reasons are listed below :
- To solve usability issues in digiKam image editor. Some tools provided by DigikamImagePlugins are duplicate with core editor tool and bloat menu entries. Especially, these tools have been fused :
* Blowup plugin merged with Image Editor Resize tool (digiKam core implementation).
* Refocus, Unsharp Mask merged with Image Editor Sharpen tool (from core image plugin)
- One package to build for each digiKam release. It's a waste of time to release both packages at the same time: digiKam + DigikamImagePlugins.
- Some users do not understand why all DigikamImagePlugins are not available by default like others photo tools (photoshop, krita, gimp, etc). By this way, all tools will be always available by default in editor.
- Merging code is a good stuff to prepare implementation to QT4/KDE4. It's not a real port. it's just a code polishing. The port will be done this summer, after 0.9.2 release.
This than means that DigikamImagePlugins 0.9.2 will never exist...
This merge will change a lot of things about translations:
- We have now just one file to translate: digikam.po.
- All duplicate strings to translate will be merged onto one reference in digikam.po. Before all plugins have a dedicated .po file and this way is the hell to translate.
- All digikamimageplugins_*.po GUI files are obsolete in svn.
- All digikamimageplugins_*.po desktop files are obsolete in svn. All is merged into main digikam desktop file.
Note :
- all i18n strings from these tools are unchanged. The merge has been done as well. You can backport certainly all strings translated from old digikamimageplugins_*.po files to the new digikam.po.
- The handbook is also merged in svn and many sub-documents have been merged together (10 docbooks less to handle). Documentation is always released like a separate tarball.
