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Dear digiKam users

Few months earlier I started to work on HTMLExport plugin and first two updates I made are mentioned in the TODO file or request on bugzilla.
The first one is showing template preview alongside theme description as shown in the next screenshot:

Dear digiKam users,

A new export plugin has been added to the Kipi-plugins development
trunk: an export to Piwigo plugin!

Some of you may not know Piwigo yet: it's a powerful web gallery based
on usual PHP/MySQL technologies. It's a good solution if you want to
self-host your photos and avoid third-parties services like Picasa or
Flickr. It can be compared to Menalto Gallery, which is already
supported by Kipi-plugins, even if I find Piwigo lighter and more
complete when it comes to browsing capabilities (hierarchical
categories, tags or chronology).

You will be forgiven for thinking that copyrighting photos belongs to the realm of the professional photographer. Even if you consider yourself an amateur, providing copyright and contact information for your photos is a prudent thing to do. Embedding copyright info into each photo may sound like a daunting proposition, but digiKam provides a nifty template feature which lets you create copyright templates and apply them to multiple photos in one go.

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

The ui of the picasaweb exporter gains some love and is refreshed in current trunk. Its look now fits to other kipi export plugins with imagelistview support showing you the current processing element and a non-modal progressbar to let you work on your next photos while uploading.

Besides the exporter, a basic importer has been added, to let you download all your favourite albums.

Hot on the heels of digiKam 1.0, Gilles Caulier announced the 1.1.0 release of the popular open source photo management application. While the main focus in version 1.0 was on squashing bugs, the new release of digiKam does sport a couple of new nifty features and improvements.

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce Kipi-plugins 1.1.0 !

kipi-plugins tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url

Kipi-plugins will be also available for Windows. Precompiled packages can be donwloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.

See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:

During the last two months Marcel and I ported all tree views in digiKam from Qt3 to Qt4 and its model view concept. These changes are now included in the svn trunk. The new code still needs some serious testing and we would appreciate your help on this.

Some parts of the current digiKam release still rely on old Qt3 support classes. Most prominent are the various tree views in the main view, e.g. for selecting an album to show in the central icon view or filtering by tag. My job since the coding sprint was to port these tree views to Qt4 using the model view concept introduced there. Marcel already wrote the models some time ago so that I could start my work on a solid foundation. This work was done in a separate feature branch for the last two months. Now, after the 1.1.0 release, this branch is merged back into trunk and ready to be included in the next release of digiKam.

But as usual with GUI changes this can introduce some regressions as user interfaces are hard to test automatically. Therefore we would really like you to test the current trunk code including these changes before releasing the next version of digiKam. Try to find as many bugs as you can that we have introduced here. ;)

If you are not yet familiar on how to test current development code, this page gives you a short introduction how to get and compile digiKam from source. For reporting bugs please use the normal KDE bug tracker.

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

digiKam team is proud to announce digiKam 1.1.0 bug fix release!

digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url

digiKam will also be available for Windows. Pre-compiled packages can be downloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.

Accordingly with KDE bugzilla entries #177827 and #218906, i have slightly modified the vignetting tool, now you can add vignetting to your pictures:

Vignetting can be used as a creative tool to focus attention to the center of the picture.

This feature will be included in Digikam 1.1.0. I hope you will like it. Please provide feedback !

Are you on Flickr? Do you use digiKam? Then join the digiKam Users Flickr group! The group is intended to function as a hub for photographers who use digiKam as their tool of choice for managing and tweaking photos. Feel free to showcase your best photos and describe digiKam techniques and tools you used to achieve the final result. Head to www.flickr.com/groups/digikam-users and join the group!