digiKam digest - 2009-06-21
Submitted by mikolajmachowski on Sun, 2009-06-21 23:13
Interesting things which happened this week:
- Multiple languages support in Caption field
- Fixed synchronisation between XMP and IPTC
- Usability fixes in context menues
- Possibility to restrict Fuzzy searches to selected albums/tags
- Metadata support for PGF (format of files used in digiKam thumbnails database) in Exiv2 library
- Various fixes from EBN
- Thumbs database enabled by default now!
- TimeLine widget: draw flicker rectangle around time selection date below X axis. Now,
with flicker effect, this bring users to see where they can take date selection.
- Background work on multiple photographers identities
- Albums and Tags count in statistics dialog
Bug/wish table
| Opened bugs | Opened last week | Closed last week | Change | Opened wishes | Opened last week | Closed last week | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| digikam | 233 | +26 | -30 | -4 | 275 | +13 | -14 | -1 |
| kipiplugins | 114 | +6 | -1 | 5 | 147 | +2 | -1 | 1 |
Full tables:
NEWS reports
Issues closed last week (note: due to different methodologies numbers may not add up with table above)
digiKam
+General : digiKam use a new database to cache thumbnails instead ~./thumbnails.
+ File format used to store image is PGF (http://www.libpgf.org).
+ PGF is a wavelets based image compression format and give space optimizations.
+General : Added Multi-languages support to Caption and Tags right side-bar.
+AlbumGui : Find Duplicates search can be limited to an album and tag range.
+019 ==> 189982 : digiKam crashes during start-up.
+020 ==> 098462 : Support for comments in different languages.
+021 ==> 159158 : Tags moved in tree are duplicated in the IPTC metadata.
+022 ==> 186308 : Moving tags in hierarchy not reflected in XMP metadata "TagsList".
+023 ==> 141912 : Sync Metadata Batch Tool does not reflect changes in tags properly.
+024 ==> 175321 : Synchronize tags to iptc keywords adds instead of copying.
+025 ==> 195663 : Crash while adding new tag.
+026 ==> 195735 : digiKam-svn fails to compile on Mac OS X.
+027 ==> 196768 : With 4.2.90 digikam always crashes on startup - worked fine with 4.2.3.
+028 ==> 190719 : Compiling digikam-0.10.0 on gentoo fails.
+029 ==> 197129 : Hierarchical setting of keywords.
+030 ==> 195079 : digiKam albums appear empty.
+031 ==> 195494 : Deleting and cancelling a picture with the keyboard still delete the picture.
+032 ==> 195975 : Images are not visible.
+033 ==> 196462 : IconView (Qt4 Model/view based): Navigation broken after delete.
+034 ==> 192055 : Typo digiKam tip of the day.
+035 ==> 164026 : Wish: use embedded thumbs within jpegs to speedup album display.
+036 ==> 197152 : Startup wizard has problems creating directories.
+037 ==> 196726 : digiKam crashes while creating thumbnails.
+038 ==> 182852 : Timeline: click area small an unintuitive.
+039 ==> 173899 : Timeline does not show any photos.
+040 ==> 196994 : digiKam 1.0.0-0.1.beta1.f11 from kde-redhat crash on startup.
+041 ==> 180076 : Moving a big folder to another subfolder folder does ... nothing.
+042 ==> 191557 : Previous and next image is showing weird results.
+043 ==> 197360 : In the "edit captions" sidebar moving a tag to white space crashes digiKam.
+044 ==> 195799 : digiKam takes 100% CPU when exiting and finally crashes.
Kipi-plugins
+DNGConverter : Fix compilation under MacOS-X.
+022 ==> PrintImage : 137687 : Let the user decide the position where to print a photo.
+023 ==> MetaDataEdit : 197218 : Plugin corrupts CRC information in PNGs.
Selected commits
SVN commit 982308 by cgilles:
more tooltips here : show full description of language to be more suitable
1 file changed
SVN commit 982226 by aclemens:
New widget: CurvesBox
This class will allow to add control elements as well as the gradient widgets to
a curve.
All elements can be enabled separately, if needed. The default is to
turn them off.
4 files changed
SVN commit 982282 by cgilles:
Added multiple language support to Caption and Tags right side bar. Comments are store to database folowing RFC 3066.
comments are stored to image metadata into XMP schema.
BUGS: 98462
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=982282
6 files changed
SVN commit 982571 by cgilles:
This is a long standing bug about Tag synchronization to XMP and IPTC keywords.
To wrap around this problem, we remove all previous keywords before to apply new sets.
Marcel, i think MetadataHub is right : new and old tags lists are fine. Problem must be in libkexiv2.
Anyway this patch fix the problem for the moment.
BUGS: 175321
BUGS: 159158
BUGS: 141912
BUGS: 186308
CCMAIL: marcel.wiesweg@gmx.de
1 file changed
SVN commit 982588 by aclemens:
re-arrange context menu a little bit, I guess GoTo is quite important,
but gets lost at its old position.
It is some kind of view action, so moving it into the view / edit group
is better.
1 file changed
SVN commit 982679 by aclemens:
Find Duplicates can now be used on albums and tags
- adding the tag selection box
- setup the connections
- adding appropiate methods for haariface
5 files changed
SVN commit 982974 by cgilles:
i just completed first version of PGF metadata encoder/decoder for Exiv2 library. i can comment this code (will be definitively removed later)
1 file changed
SVN commit 983751 by mboquien:
Correct some EBN warning regarding includes.
17 files changed
SVN commit 983830 by cgilles:
set focus to Cancel button
BUGS: 195494
1 file changed
SVN commit 983904 by cgilles:
enable thumbs database by default now.
1 file changed
SVN commit 984196 by cgilles:
TimeLine widget : draw flicker rectangle around time selection date below X axis. Now, with flicker effect, this bring users
to see where they can take date selection.
Note : Only bottom of vertical band is used to perform selection. the rest of band, upper X axis can be move to naviguate
on time line without to take selection. Why ? To see and check date an number of items from histogram displayed on the top.
Kphotoalbum use also this behavour with timeline.
BUGS: 182852
BUGS: 173899
2 files changed
SVN commit 984269 by mwiesweg:
Catch std::bad_alloc around the main image data allocation - with very big images
or corrupt headers, width or height information may be fatally large.
CCBUG: 197254
1 file changed
SVN commit 984356 by cgilles:
new photographer info container. Not yet used...
3 files changed
SVN commit 984388 by aclemens:
Add albums and tags count to the dbstats dialog
1 file changed
SVN commit 984661 by aclemens:
Fix crash in TAlbumListView when dragging an item into the empty space
below the tag list.
BUG:197360
1 file changed
SVN commit 984831 by aclemens:
Don't display the tag symbol inside of a tag thumbnail. This looks
strange.
Maybe we should even thing about getting rid of the tag border as soon
as a tag thumbnail has been set, like we do in album folder view?
For those of you who have "a tag inside a tag":
Right-click on the tag thumbnail and choose "Reset Icon".
CCMAIL:digikam-devel@kde.org
1 file changed
SVN commit 984825 by welwarsky:
QList::length() is Qt 4.5 only.
QList::count() is equivalent and works for earlier versions
1 file changed
wow, never cease to amaze me.
wow, never cease to amaze me. using near-bleeding edge on kubuntu..
Hi, any changes to First Run
Hi,
any changes to First Run assistant? There was a small talk about this wizard: http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/442