digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
digiKam will be also available for Windows. Pre-compiled 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:
NEW FEATURES (since 0.10.x series):
General : Exif, Makernotes, Iptc, and Xmp metadata tags filtering can be customized in setup config dialog. General : Metadata Template: add support of Contact, Location, and Subjects IPTC information. General : Add support of Author properties to multi-language Captions. User can set an author name for each caption value. General : Add new Batch Queue Manager. General : New tool bar animation banner.
General : Add support of wavelets image file format PGF. General : Added support of Metadata Template to set easily image copyright. General : Added support of LightRoom keywords path for interoperability purpose. General : Added Multi-languages support to Caption and Tags right side-bar. General : digiKam use a new database to cache thumbnails instead ~./thumbnails.
File format used to store image is PGF (https://www.libpgf.org).
PGF is a wavelets based image compression format and give space optimizations.
Support for different authors of comments in various languages
Fully customizable "Short view" (aka "Human readable") in Metadata tab; unfortunately due to feature freeze for 4.3 duration this will not be available in digiKam 1.0 with this KDE release, but only with KDE 4.4.
Further optimizations in image plugins
Fixed bug about creation date for non-EXIF-able files
Fixes and improvements in templates system
Compatibility with libjpeg7
Multiple fixes and improvements in advanced slideshow kipi-plugin
General : Add support of wavelets image file format PGF. General : Added support of Metadata Template to set easily image copyright. General : Added support of LightRoom keywords path for interoperability purpose. General : Added Multi-languages support to Caption and Tags right side-bar. General : digiKam use a new database to cache thumbnails instead ~./thumbnails.
File format used to store image is PGF (https://www.libpgf.org).
PGF is a wavelets based image compression format and give space optimizations.
Kipi-plugins 0.4.0 maintenance release for KDE4 is out.
kipi-plugins 0.4.0 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
Kipi-plugins 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:
GalleryExport : Raw images can be uploaded directly to remote server. DNGConverter : Fix compilation under MacOS-X.
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.
