This week, i have work for a while on another digiKam subject: a new first run assistant.
The goal of this assistant is to group lead questions to configure some importants rules in digiKam setup. Of course, we won't to reproduce here the huge digiKam setup panel, but welcome users in digiKam and ask for minimal settings.
Assistant provide tips and explainations to guide users for future adjustements. Also, we cannot replace digiKam documentation which can be compared to a real book, but at least users are introduced to the digiKam world.
This week digiKam saw introduction of new plugin - Liguid resize; beginning of work on Qt4 list view implementation and usual share of polishing, bug fixing, etc. Read details in full version.
Because KDE-wide commit digest is a bit erratic lately I thought about replacing it in part of KDE I am especially interested in: digiKam.
It covers development of digiKam, kipi-plugins, libkdcraw and libkexiv2.
Since some of code is shared in KDE framework it may be interesting also for users of other programs but it will be centered around digiKam and any editorial comments will be digiKam-centric.
Form will be kept as simple as possible but may evolve in time.
Since few weeks, an active work have been done with Julien Pontabry and Julien Nardoux to solve this bug report.
On preview screenshots, you can seen a picture resized horizontally to 150%. A preservation mask in green is drawn over the image part to not touch elements during transformation. see below, another example with two area to preserve:
I have receive a lots of candidates for digiKam and Showfoto splash-screens contest opened 2 week ago. Around 70 mails are in my gmail account. So, thanks to all contributors.
After a first selection done by myself, only best shots still in the list. It's time now to review all candidates with digiKam.org team and choose the best one for digiKam and Showfoto. It will be not easy because all images are great to see...
Yesterday, Marcel has moved digiKam 0.11 source code from a development branch to trunk in KDE subversion repository. 0.11 include now the famous Batch Queue Manager, and it will be ready to test soon in production...
So, it's time to start next 0.11 release plan... and of course the time has come to find the ideal splash-screens to go with it. Now is your chance to join the ranks of the precious few who have had their artwork associated with a release of digiKam!
digiKam 0.10.0 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
digiKam is also available for Windows. Precompiled packages can be donwloaded 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 0.9.x series):
General : Ported to CMake/Qt4/KDE4. General : Thumbs KIO-Slave removed. digiKam now use multi-threading to generate thumnails. General : Removed all X11 library dependencies. Code is now portable under MACOS-X and Win32. General : Support of XMP metadata (require Exiv2 library >= 0.16). General : Hardware handling using KDE4 Solid interface. General : Preview of Video and Audio files using KDE4 Phonon interface. General : Database file can be stored on a customized place to support remote album library path. General : New database schema to host more photo and collection informations. General : Database interface fully re-written using Qt4 SQL plugin. General : Support of multiple roots album paths. General : Physical root albums are managed as real album. General : New option in Help menu to list all RAW file formats supported. General : Geolocation of pictures from sidebars is now delegate to KDE4 Marble widget. General : New option in Help menu to list all main components/libraries used by digiKam. General : libkdcraw dependency updated to 0.4.0. General : libkexiv2 dependency updated to 0.5.0. General : Raw metadata can be edited, changed, added to TIFF/EP like RAW file formats (require Exiv2 >= 0.18). Currently DNG, NEF, and PEF raw files are supported. More will be added in the future. General : digiKam can be compiled natively under Microsoft Windows. General : libkdcraw dependency updated to 0.4.0. General : libgphoto2 dependency is now optional to be able to compile digiKam under operating systems not supported by GPhoto2. General : Usability improvements to be able to run digiKam on small screen (like EeePC). General : New option to enable RAW metadata writing. General : digiKamlinktree script updated to support new Database schema. General : All batch tools as rebuild all thumbs or sync metadata with database use modeless dialogs. General : Icon-View and Thumbbar items use a smart 3D decorative border. General : Fonts used by Icon-View, Folder-View, and Tooltip can be customized. General : Thumbbar item can be rated on the fly. General : New settings to fix file timestamp when metadata are saved. General : Sidebar type is configurable: title is visible for only active tab, or for all tabs. General : Internal CImg library updated to 1.3.0. General : New “DarkRoom” colors theme.
Official kipi-plugins 0.2.0 release for KDE4 is out.
kipi-plugins 0.2.0 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
Kipi-plugins is also available for Windows. Precompiled packages can be donwloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.
See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:
General : Port to CMake/KDE4/QT4. General : all plugins can be compiled natively under Microsoft Windows. General : Plugins now use metadata settings shared with kipi host application. General : All import/export plugins now have keyboard shortcuts. General : SimpleViewer plugin has been renamed to FlashExport. General : New icons for all Export/import plugins.
Official digiKam 0.9.5 release for KDE3 is out. It's a bug fix and translations updates.
digiKam 0.9.5 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
Compared to digiKam 0.9.4, closed files and new features are listed below:
NEW FEATURES:
General : libkdcraw dependency updated to 0.1.6. General : TIFF/PNG/JPEG2000 metadata can be edited or added (require Exiv2 >= 0.18). General : Internal CImg library updated to 1.3.0.
Updated to libraw 0.6.13: - Bugfixes in RIFF reading code. Updated to libraw 0.6.12: - Hasselblad V96C support. Updated to libraw 0.6.11: - Fixed serious bug in loading metadata from external JPG file. Updated to libraw 0.6.10: - Support for loading White Balance data from Sony ARW files edited with Sony IDC software. Updated to libraw 0.6.9: - Better support for Samsung S85. - Fixed possible integer overflow in wavelet denoising code. Updated to libraw 0.6.8: - Changes in QuickTake 100 files processing. Updated to libraw 0.6.7: -Added support for Samsung S85. -Changes in external jpeg (metadata) processing. Updated to libraw 0.6.6: -Changes in Panasonic FZ50 processing code. Updated to libraw 0.6.5: -Fixed file descriptor and buffer memory leak when thumbnail extractor is called, but library object is not properly initialized. -Fixes in Imacon files unpacking. -Fixes in Hasselblad .fff files unpacking.
