Shared Libraries
Introduction
digikam team has developed and maintains few shared libraries dedicated to play with images. These libraries are listed below:
LibKipi
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LibKipi (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is a C++ interface to use kipi-plugins from a KDE image management program like digiKam. Kipi-plugins project is an effort to develop a common set of plugins dedicated to manipulated photographs. Its aim is to share image plugins among graphic applications. LibKipi source code is hosted by KDE4 in kdegraphics module. |
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LibKExiv2
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LibKExiv2 is a wrapper around Exiv2 library to manipulate pictures metadata as EXIF, IPTC, and XMP. This Metadata interface follow Metadata Working Group Specification. This library is used by kipi-plugins, digiKam and others kipi host programs. LibKExiv2 source code is hosted by KDE4 in kdegraphics module. 
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LibKDcraw
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LibKDcraw is a C++ interface around LibRaw library used to decode RAW picture files. This library is used by kipi-plugins, digiKam and others kipi host programs. LibKDcraw source code is hosted by KDE4 in kdegraphics module. |
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How to Find Source Code
With KDE3, these libraries are published by kipi-plugins project. Source tarball have been released and are maintained.
With KDE4, all libraries have been moved into kdegraphics - core KDE module. They will be released automatically with KDE.
To checkout source code, look details from download page.