Dear all digiKam fans and users!

A new test cycle has been started to complete 1.0.0 release...

digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url

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

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

Outstanding work this week was done on:

• First visible effect of porting to Qt4 model list view: overlays over image thumbnails. When hovering with mouse over "plate" user will see small icons for loss-less rotating of image, rating, selection and probably more in future. Icons are faded in and out with nice looking animation, also rating widget interaction was improved.

  

• roadmap to next release, finally 1.0!
• usability fixes
• attempt to speed up loading of thumbnails by compromise on quality,
• after tests idea was mostly rejected; implemented "cheat scaling" for
• generation of thumbnails
• instead beginning of thumbnails cache separate from .thumbnails standard:

In this week there was mostly continuation of last week work:

- New expander widget in all plugins and whole interface

- fixing of memory leaks
- making MSVC happy (many thanks to developers working on MS-Windows
who are sending patches!)
- preparation for libkdcraw 1.0
- polishing and cleaning of code
- making sure that MS-Windows users will get warm welcome (fixing issues
with welcome page in good shape)

This week in digiKam:

• taking care about MS-Windows; to quote Andi: "Hope MSVC is happy now."
• new expander box widget for easier display of data in main GUI and all plugins:





• continuing work on Content Aware Resize plugin




• optimizations, optimizations, OPTIMIZATIONS!
• usability fixes
• bug fixing, with concentration on memory leaks
• new Qt4 ModelView for Album GUI available in SVN

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

Kipi-plugins 0.3.0 maintenance release for KDE4 is out.

kipi-plugins 0.3.0 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.

Usual portion of bug fixes and polishing. In addition:

- main part of port to Qt4 ListModel view done
- improving of Content Aware Resize plugin
- polishing of Free Rotation interface
- optimizations in thumbanils view
- proof-reading of digiKam interface
- introduction of tool to sanitize digiKam database from time to time
- making sure everything compile on MS-Windows


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Bug/wish count

digikam 223 +16 -4 12 255 +3 -1 2
kipiplugins 102 +4 -2 2 140 +4 -0 4

[1] Opened bugs
[2] Opened last week
[3] Closed last week
[4] Change
[5] Opened wishes
[6] Opened last week
[7] Closed last week
[8] Change

libkdcraw 0.1.9 for KDE3 has been just released. The tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url.

This release include last version of LibRaw 0.7.2 Raw decoder. For more informations about digiKam playing with LibRaw , take a look on this previous blog entry

A few weeks ago I added a new feature to the Free-Rotation imageplugin: 'Automatic (Horizon) Correction'.

This is nothing new, Gimp and Photoshop (and for sure other applications) have such a feature, too.
You set two points in the preview widget and hit "Adjust" to rotate the image accordingly to these markers.

This week we see work on Qt4 List Model View which will make many things
possible, among them:

- small overlay icons to performa basic actions (like in Gwenview, Lightroom)
- color labels
- more status indications

Further work on Content Aware Resize plugin with many patches. Polishing of
Free Rotation plugin interface.

Introduction of new First Run Assistant. More about it in
Gilles blog.

Removing of last elements of Qt3 code from under the hood.

New functionality for Batch Queue Manager - welcome Matthias!


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Bug/wish count

digikam 210 +14 -2 12 253 +4 -0 4