digiKam has been awarded again as the TUX 2008 Readers’ Choice Award in the category Favorite Digital Photo Management Tool.
We are very proud we received this prize, especially because it is a prize for which the users have voted.
TUX is the a magazine for the new Linux user and is dedicated to promoting and simplifying the use of Linux on the PC.
The team thanks all peoples who has voted for digiKam.
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The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-beta4. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well.
General : Updated internal CImg library to last stable 1.2.8 (released at 2008/04/18).
General : New search text filter for all metadata sidebar tabs.
General : New dialog to list all RAW camera supported. A search camera model tool is available to find easy a camera from list.
General : Creation of tags simplified everywhere. Multiple Tags hierarchy can be created at the same time. Tags creation dialog re-designed.
General : Color theme scheme are pervasively applied in graphical interfaces, giving digiKam a real Pro-look when dark schemes are selected.
General : Color theme scheme can be changed from either Editor or LightTable.
General : Add capability to display items count in all Album, Date, Tags, and Tags Filter folder views. The number of items contained in virtual or physical albums can be displayed next to its name. If a tree branch is collapsed, parent views sum-up the number of items from all undisplayed children views. Items count is performed in background by digiKam KIO-Slaves. A new option from Setup/Album dialog page can toggle on/off this feature.
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.4-beta3. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well.
General : Creation of tags simplified everywhere. Multiple Tags hierarchy can be created at the same time. Tags creation dialog re-designed.
General : Color theme scheme are pervasively applied in graphical interfaces, giving digiKam a real Pro-look when dark schemes are selected.
General : Color theme scheme can be changed from either Editor or LightTable.
General : Updated internal CImg library to last stable 1.2.7 (released on 2008/01/23).
General : Add capability to display items count in all Album, Date, Tags, and Tags Filter folder views. The number of items contained in virtual or physical albums can be displayed next to its name. If a tree branch is collapsed, parent views sum-up the number of items from all undisplayed children views. Items count is performed in background by digiKam KIO-Slaves. A new option from Setup/Album dialog page can toggle on/off this feature.
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.
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