As KDE is a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008 (see this page for details) it would be great if we get some nice projects related to digiKam.
If you are a student interested in a paid summer internship with Google, mentored by members of the digiKam team, please get in contact with us now.
Important: Application deadline: April 7 2008.
Possible projects are:
1/ Advanced image resize for image editor ==> KDE3 and KDE4
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-beta2. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well.
Note! This release works only with the latest libkdcraw and libkexiv2. You either have to compile them freshly from svn or wait a few days until the tarballs become available.
General:
AlbumGUI:
Read more →Dear all digiKam fans and users!
The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-beta1. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well.
Note! This release works only with the latest libkdcraw and libkexiv2. You either have to compile them freshly from svn or wait a few days until the tarballs become available.
NEW FEATURES:
General :
digiKam has come a long way since the early beginnings in 2002. It has come of age and deserves new cloths or a new 'corporate design' in today's parlance.
To find a new slogan, a new logo, iconized slash screen and web design has been itching me and others for quite a while now. But those are sensitive and difficult subjects, in particular for us amateurs in that field.
A contest is herewith opened to create such new cloths, closing end of march 2008. We shall then make a pre-selection and vote on the best candidates. I will act as coordinator and point of contact. Please supply your proposals to gerhard at kulzer dot net.
Read more →Since the release of digiKam 0.9.3, I have been working hard on a new major feature for digiKam 0.9.4: a Time-Line tool designed to perform complex date-based searches across your entire image collection.
My first approach was to integrate the Time-Line tool within the calendar view. However, this approach proved to be limited and unsuitable, as the calendar view is not inherently a search view. To address this, I created a new left sidebar tab called “Timeline”.
Read more →Like digiKam 0.9.3 have been released for Christmas time, it’s time to start next 0.9.4 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!
SplashScreen is a simple way for users to contribute to digiKam project. The pictures must be correctly exposed and composed, and the subject must be chosen using a real photographer inspiration.
Read more →Dear all digiKam users,
the team is really proud to deliver just in time for Xmas the final. The tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. Don't forget to update Exiv2 to last stable release 0.15 for digiKam to compile successfully.
Many, many thanks go to Gilles, Marcel, Arnd, Mik, Fabien and all the others who worked hard to create this great new release. This release sends a big parcel of usability improvements under your Xmas tree: If it was not already, organizing and navigation have become a snap now with the quick filters, drag&drop and GOTO features on top of an optimized lightable.
Read more →The digiKam team releases 0.9.3-rc1. The tarball can preferably be downloaded from SourceForge.
There is again a new very practical feature integrated:
In the Albums/Tags/Searches/TagsFilter sidebars the is a live filter at the
bottom that lets you search for a string in Albums/Tags/Searches/TagsFilter
hierarchy, much as amarok does it int he collections.
A word on stability. I know that many of you wait until a 'stable' sees the
day of light in order to upgrade digiKam. I will not tell you to do
otherwise. But! I update digikam daily per cron job from svn since 4 years
now. I have never lost a single image, nor have I lost the database or
metadata. And I have 35K images in the album. Bugs are generally functions
that don't work, but they are not destructive. Now do what you want :-)
A wiki allows users to easily create, edit and link web pages. Wikis are used for collaborative websites, power community websites, and are gaining high interest from commercial companies to provide affordable and effective intranets. It is all about knowledge management.
Major open-source projects have a wiki page - now digiKam has one as too...
It waits for your contribution, so please add them here...
Thanks in advance for your help!
Read more →The digiKam releases 0.9.3-beta3 and its English documentation. The tarballs can preferably be downloaded from SourceForge.
New Features
Bugfixes FROM KDE BUGZILLA (https://bugs.kde.org):
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