Take care, it's always a BETA code with many of new bugs not yet fixed... To resume:

"DO NOT USE YET IN PRODUCTION"

Et voila...

...by the same way than TIFF and PNG, digiKam is now able to write JPEG2000 metadata on the fly. I have just patched Exiv2 library for that. See below a video demo of digiKam from KDE4 in action working with Metadata Editor over a JPEG2000 file and writting digiKam info to another PNG file.

It's holliday time for me currently. Since two week, i still in south of France near Mediterranean sea. Summer is nice to play on the beach with my familly.

But for my hot brain, it's difficult to still without a little programming task to do for open-source world...

Here i don't have a speed internet connection. My laptop (a Toshiba Satellite) has a winmodem which run only under Windows Vista. It's not easy to sync my local copy of current subversion implementation of digiKam and co. So i need to work on other important stuff where source code no need to be synchronized every day to play with it: Exiv2

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

The digiKam development team is happy to release the first beta release for KDE4. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge.

After one year of developement, porting code to KDE4/Qt4 api, and backporting new features from KDE3 branch, we have decided to make a first try with this beta release.

But take care, it's a BETA code with many of new bugs not yet fixed... To resume:

There is one year, Marcel and me we have started to port digiKam code to Qt4/KDE4. Yes, already one year of work...Tempus fugit...

Since few weeks ago, the whole web site have been re-designed. The following task have been done:

Like i have previously said in this post, for the next major release of Exiv2, the Tiff metadata writting mode will be available.

Due to a lack of Exif metadata support in libtiff, we cannot use this library to backup all metadata from a converted RAW file. We cannot use this library to play with the metadata section only without touching the whole image data. Of course we use libtiff in editor to convert image to Tiff, but that's all.

Remember this library is the core implementation used to manage and manipulate photo metadata. In digiKam 0.10.0, Exiv2 is used to play with XMP, thrue our libkexiv2 KDE interface.

NEW FEATURES (since 0.9.3):

After my first post about the new Fuzzy Searches tools included in digiKam for KDE4 to find images using sketch or to find similars images, a new search tool is now done to find all duplicates items around all collections. A video demo can be see below:

This tool have been done in the way to replace the old FindImages kipi-plugins from KDE3. See below the dialog layout of this plugin: