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The 0.9 series has been under heavy development since November 2005
(more than 200 files in KDE bugzilla have been closed) and offers you
the opportunity to test and enjoy a variety of new features, additions
and improvements.
Please see the NEWS file for a full list of changes.
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Changes since digikam 0.8.2-rc1 include:
Bugs fixed:
o Unsupported initialization of CameraList object
o digikam "Mount and Download" Problems
o Thumbnail generation fails with raw images
o Camera gui always puts *.JPG and *.NEF in the configure - digikam
dialog/File Mime Types/ Image Files
o Crash when moving an album to another album
o Auto-rotion of photos may confuse user because of changes made he is
not aware of
o Communication between digiKam and its kioslaves broken if size_t != off_t
o Minimize button missing on "Compaq Flash Reader" camera window
o mimelnk/x-image-raw.desktop conflicts with kdegraphics-3.5.x
Changes since 0.8.2-beta1 include:
New feature:
o add missing Rating info in album item file tip and image
properties dialog
Bugs fixed:
o fix JFIF comments section encoding extraction to respect UTF8
o fix x-raw.desktop: removed tiff extention
o camera download: auto-rotated images lose EXIF meta data
o fix message about missing dcraw program
o EXIF info lost when saving a modified image that was readonly
o Hash marks ('#') in album names cause problems. 0.7.* regression
o something is broken with TIFF imlib2 loader and 16 bits
images. Use KDE/Qt TIFF loader instead.
Changes since 0.8.1 include:
New features:
o display JPEG that use CMYK color space
o Rating image using keyboard shortcuts CTRL+0/1/2/3/4/5 from
main interface
o Buttons to set the album date to oldest, yougest of the images in the
album
Bugs fixed:
o preview-pictures seem to be handled differently by Digikam and Konqueror
o albums not displayed corectly and digikam crashes with St9bad_alloc
o digikam: whatthis info not closed when albumview is
scrolled up or down with cursur keys
o digikam: redraw problem with whatthis info of an
image show and starts scrolling with the mouse
o thumbnails not correctly rotated according to exif information
o Ask user which plugins should be enabled on first
startup (all plugins are enabled by default first startup)
o opening and closing right pane with tag filter also
changes width of left pane and vv
o Digikam on PPC has problem identifying JPEG and tries
to use dcraw with them
Changes since digikamimageplugins 0.8.1 include:
Bugs fixed:
o White Balance plugin : Fixed Gamma correction slider values inversed
o Infrared plugins: fix unnecessary blurring effects
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kdelibs and bump PKGREVISION.
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agree on the type of filesizes that are passed between them.
Bump PKGREVISION.
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New user interface. Date based virtual folders. Searching. Tag
filtering. Database upgraded to sqlite3. Lots of bug fixes.
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Note that DigiKam's documentation is now in the upcoming new package
digikam-doc.
Changes since last packaged version (0.7.2):
version 0.7.4
Updated translations
version 0.7.3
+ Showfoto : add image properties dialog like in digiKam, add RMB menu, Move
to trash/Delete File option, add setup dialog, add new option to toogle
thumbbar in fullscreen mode, DigikamImagePlugins support, load/unload plugins
dynamicly in according with setup, add statusbar, add splashscreen support,
add resize image option, add Print capability, add Key shortcuts and toolbar
configuration settings, add Edit/copy action, Undo/Redo actions, add showfoto
icon, GUI improvements.
+ Image filters levels and curves adjustments : add option to see over-exposed
pixels in preview effect (like with Acdsee(tm) tools).
+ Image histogram : color guide tool.
+ Image filters levels and curves adjustments : mouse tracking picker color
like in Gimp and Photoshop(tm).
+ Patch from Alfons Hoogervorst about histogram visible while viewing photo in
digiKam image editor and showfoto using blending.
+ digiKam Splashscreen from Andreas Fischer.
+ showfoto Splashscreen from Joern Ahrens.
+ Added a history based undo/redo function. The undo/redo icons in the toolbar
are popup-menus, which describes the actions on the image.
+ Add a new button to the album properties which calculates
the average date of the images in the album based on the EXIF
headers or the modification date of the images if the exif
headers are not available. It sets the date property of the album
to the average date.
+ New digiKam image editor plugin for black and white conversion :
- Since digikam include colors channel mixer, using this one for
BW conversion. Give best results than old implementation. BW
conversion are based on gimpguru.org tutorial
(http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/Color2BW).
- This plugin has a dialog with preview effect.
- B&W filters available are : Neutral B&W, B&W with Green
filter(NEW), B&W with Orange filter(NEW), B&W with Red
filter(NEW), B&W with Yellow filter(NEW), Sepia,
Brown, Cold, Selenium, Platinum.
Bugs Fix : 103618 104005 103458 103515 105007 103147 105303 107155 103219
103445 103282 103243 102195 102322 100991 100987 100472 98706
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Notables changes since last packaged version (0.7.1)
Image filter : new Gaussian blur and Channel mixer filters.
Image Editor : Add new copy action to copy current selection to clipboard.
You can paste this selection in other application like Kolorpaint, Gimp,
Kword, etc...
Image Editor : Undoing actions capability.
Image Editor : Usability improvements of ratio-crop tool. Add Rule Third
Lines guides for to help users to compose a photograph.
Image Editor : Replaced native dynamic guibuilder system with kde xmlgui one
for plugins. Toolbars and shortcuts are now configurable within the Image
Editor.
Image Editor : Fix PNG compression and JPEG quality min and max values
(Gimp/Photoshop like)
Image Editor : New Stretch Contrast color filter.
Image Editor : New classic Black and White photograph tonal convertion:
Neutral BW, Sepia, Selenium, Platinum, Cold-Tone, Brown.
Image Editor : added action icons.
New splashcreen with animation like KDevelop.
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Key new features since last packaged version (0.6.2):
- Reliable and fast database (sqlite) backend for saving metadata
- Tagging support for photos.
- Tags are grouped together as virtual folders shown similar to albums.
- Extensive drag and drop support for tagging and moving/copying photos
- Enhanced camera interface with support for automatic photo rotation and
renaming of photos while downloading.
- EXIF support with optional oriented display of thumbnails and photos using
camera provided information
- Customizable thumbnails for albums and tags
- Support for nested albums
- Tooltips providing detailed photo information
- Themeing support for digiKam
- KIPI support for enhanced plugin support. KIPI is an initiative between
various KDE image management applications to provide a common architecture
for implementing image based plugins.
- New fast image viewer and editor which uses its own plugin architecture to
provide various additional functionalities in addition to the usual
gamma/contrast/brightness adjustments, rotation, resize functions.
Some of the plugins supplied with digiKam are:
Histogram Viewer
Red Eye correction
Black & White and Sepia conversion
Blurring and sharpening
RGB color correction
Hue/Saturation/Lightness correction
Normalize and Equalize
- Improved thumbnail loading speed.
- Unified Image properties dialog - with separate pages for file information,
EXIF and Histogram
- Threaded histogram calculation for better responsiveness
- Navigation of albums (based on navigation history) using forward and back
button
- Auto album creation using date based album names while downloading photos
from the camera.
- Load and display image formats which imlib2 doesnt support, but kde does.
- Generate thumbnails for raw images using Dave Coffins dcraw tool.
- New standalone photo viewer named showFoto for kde using digiKams image
viewer canvas.
- New commandline option "--detect-camera" to detect connected cameras and to
launch the camera window on startup.
- New Aspect Ratio Constrained Crop plugin
- Free Rotation tool is now a plugin and has guides to help with rotation.
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Digikam is a simple digital photo management KDE application, which makes
importing and organizing digital photos easy.
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