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 choosen using a real photographer inspiration.
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 useability 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.
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...
The digiKam releases 0.9.3-beta3 and its English documentation. The tarballs can preferably be downloaded from SourceForge.
New Features
The main window has yet another live filter: The new string search filters the current view (album/collection, date, tags, search) on substrings within file name, caption, and tags. This feature is really convenient and completes the file type filter and rating filter introduced in previous 0.9.3-betas.
Several usability improvements in the Light Table
A green tint has been added to the b&w conversion plugin
Bugfixes FROM KDE BUGZILLA (alias B.K.O | http://bugs.kde.org):
For a long time now we have been planning to extend the amount of information we store in the database for the next version, 0.10, which will run on KDE4. As the database is the central storage and digikam is built around it, such a move involves deep structural changes. We have done preparations, discussed on the mailing list what we want and what we need, made up documentation, and then sat down to code. So during the last weeks I have been working on implementing the new database schema, and tonight I have merged my commits.
The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.3-beta1. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well. (0.9.3 will probably be the last release before we will switch over to KDE4 which will see a totally revamped digiKam.)
New features of the camera interface:
The camera interface is now used to import new images into collections.
There are new options to download pictures and delete them from the camera at the same time.
Support of Drag & Drop to download files from camera window to album window.
A progress bar has been added to indicate the available space in the Album Library Path
With the next releases of the digiKam, 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 choosen using a real photographer inspiration.
The next stable release 0.9.3 of digiKam is planed to september. This version will includes few bug fix for KDE3 envirronement. For this release, we need 2 new splash-screens dedicaced to digiKam and Showfoto startup.
Note, than it will also the same about digiKam and Showfoto for KDE4 envirronement planed around december.
To resume, we need 4 color or black and white pictures, taken horizontally. We need only photos, no need to put few marks about program name and version. We have a template to do it later. See below the official 0.9.2 splash-screen as exemple:
