Happy New Year !!!<br><br>Dear all digiKam fans and users!<br>
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The <span>Kipi</span> development team is happy to release the 6th <span>KDE4</span> beta version of <span>plugins</span> for digiKam. The tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url:<br>
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641&package_id=34800" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=<span class="nfakPe">1</span>49779&package_id=<span class="nfakPe">1</span>6576<span class="nfakPe">1</span></a><br>
<br>To compile this KDE4 version, you need libkexiv2, libkdcraw, and
libkipi for KDE4. These libraries are now included in KDE core with kdegraphic component.<br><br>With this new release, a new plugin named <b>FbExport</b> is born. It's dedicated to export images to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">FaceBook web service</a>.
<p>A plugin dedicated to export images to <a href="http://www.smugmug.com/">SmugMug web service</a> is also available since beta5.</p>Another one is available to batch convert RAW camera images to Adobe DNG container (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Negative_%28file_format%29">this Wikipedia entry</a>
for details). To be able to compile this plugin, you need last
libkdcraw from svn trunk (will be released with KDE 4.2). To extract
libraries source code from svn, look at <a href="http://www.digikam.org/download?q=download/svn#checkout-kde4">this page</a> for details.<br><br>And another one, can batch remove red eyes automatically. it's based on OpenCV library.<br>
<br>For others depencies, consult the README file. There are also
optional depencies to enable some <span>plugins</span> as libxml2 for HTLMExport or
OpenGL for SlideShow tool.<br><br>With this new release, <span>Kipi</span>-<span>plugins</span> is now compilable under Windows using
MinGW and Microsoft Visual C++. Precompiled packages are available with
KDE-Windows installer. See <a href="http://windows.kde.org/" target="_blank">http://windows.kde.org/</a> for details.<br><br>NEW FEATURES:<br><br>General : Port to CMake/KDE4/QT4.<br>General : all <span>plugins</span> can be compiled natively under Microsoft Windows.<br>
JPEGLossLess : XMP metadata support.<br>RAWConverter : XMP metadata support.<br>
TimeAdjust : XMP metadata support.<br>MetadataEdit : XMP metadata support with EXIF, IPTC, and Comments editor to sync XMP tags.<br>MetadataEdit : IPTC Editor dialog is more compliant with IPTC.org recommendations.<br>
MetadataEdit : IPTC Editor add the capability to set multiple values for a tag.<br>SendImages : Complete re-write of emailing tool.<br>GPSSync : New tool to edit GPS track list using googlemaps.<br>
RAWConverter
: Raw files are decoded in <span class="nfakPe">1</span>6 bits color depth using same auto-gamma
and auto-white methods provided by dcraw with 8 bits color depth RAW
image decoding.<br>
SlideShow
: Now filenames, captions and progress indicators can have transparent
backgrounds with OpenGL SlideShow as well.<br>
SlideShow : Added thumbnails into image list.<br>SlideShow : Now you can play your favourite music during slideshow.<br>DNGConverter : New plugin to convert RAW camera image to Digital NeGative (DNG)<br>
RemoveRedEyes : New plugin to remove red eyes in batch. Tool is based on OpenCV library.<br>Calendar : Ported to QT4/KDE4.<br>Calendar : Support RAW images.<br>AcquireImages : Under Windows, TWAIN interface is used to scan image using flat scanner.<br>
SlideShow : Normal effects are back.<br>SlideShow : New effect "Cubism".<br>SlideShow : Added support for RAW images.<br>DNGConverter : plugin is now available as a stand alone application.<br>
SlideShow : New effect "Mosaic"<br>PrintWizard : Ported to QT4/KDE4<br>PrintWizard : Added a new option to skip cropping, the image is scaled automatically.<br>RemoveRedEyes : Added an option to preview the correction of the currently selected image.<br>
SmugExport : New plugin to export images to a remote SmugMug web service (<a href="http://www.smugmug.com/" target="_blank">http://www.smugmug.com</a>).<br>FbExport : New plugin to export images to a remote Facebook web service (<a href="http://www.facebook.com">http://www.facebook.com</a>).<br>
FlickrExport : Add support of Photosets.<br>
SmugExport : Add support for Album Templates.<br><br><span>Kipi</span>-<span>plugins</span> BUG FIXING from B.K.O (<a href="http://bugs.kde.org/" target="_blank">http://bugs.kde.org</a>):<br>
<br>00<span class="nfakPe">1</span> ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>3545<span class="nfakPe">1</span> : GPSSync : Improve the gui of the gpssync plugin.<br>
002 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>35386 : GPSSync : Show track on the google map.<br>003 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>49497 : GPSSync : Geolocalization <span>kipi</span> plugin does not work with non-jpeg file types.<br>
004 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>45746 : GPSSync : Do not recreate thumbs when geolocalizing images.<br>
005 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>34299 : SimpleViewer : Read orientation of image from EXIF.<br>006 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>58792 : GPSsync : Plugin do not working with Canon RAW CR2.<br>
007 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>65078 : GPSSync : GPS correlator does not show thumbnails.<br>
008 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>65278 : GPSSync : Geotagging dialog doesn't display all thumbnails.<br>009 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>50076 : SlideShow : Playing music during a slideshow<br>
0<span class="nfakPe">1</span>0 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>72283 : SlideShow : SlideShow crashes host application<br>
0<span class="nfakPe">1</span><span class="nfakPe">1</span> ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>72337 : SlideShow : Slideshow enhancements by ken-burns effects.<br>0<span class="nfakPe">1</span>2 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>73276 : SlideShow : digikam crashs after closing<br>
0<span class="nfakPe">1</span>3 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>729<span class="nfakPe">1</span>0 : GalleryExport : Gallery crash (letting crash digiKam) with valid data and url.<br>
0<span class="nfakPe">1</span>4 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>6<span class="nfakPe">1</span>855 : GalleryExport : Remote Gallery Sync loses password.<br>0<span class="nfakPe">1</span>5 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>54752 : GalleryExport : Export to Gallery2 seems to fail, but in fact works.<br>
0<span class="nfakPe">1</span>6 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>57285 : SlideShow : digiKam advanced slideshow not working with Canon RAWs.<br>
0<span class="nfakPe">1</span>7 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>753<span class="nfakPe">1</span>6 : GPSSync : digiKam crashes when trying to enter gps data.<br>0<span class="nfakPe">1</span>8 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>69637 : MetadataEdit : EXIF Data Editing Error.<br>
0<span class="nfakPe">1</span>9 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>74954 : HTMLExport : Support for remote urls.<br>
020 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>76640 : MetadataEdit : Wrong reference to website.<br>
02<span class="nfakPe">1</span> ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>76749 : TimeAdjust : Incorrect time/date setting with digiKam.<br>
022 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>65370 : GPSSync : crash when saving geocoordinates.<br>
023 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>65486 : GPSSync : Next and Previous photo button for editing geolocalization coordinates.<br>
024 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>75296 : GPSSync : Geolocalization a handy gui to manage all about geotagging.<br>
025 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>52520 : MetadataEdit : Unified entry of metadata.<br>
026 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span>35320 : Calendar : Calendar year do not match locale.<br>
027 ==> <span class="nfakPe">1</span><span class="nfakPe">1</span>6970 : Calendar : New calendar generator plugin features.<br>028 ==> 177999 : General : Kipi-plugins Shortcuts are not listed in
the shortcuts editor from Kipi host application.<br>
029 ==> 160236 : JPEGLossLess : Image Magick convert operations return with errors.<br>
030 ==> 144183 : RawConverter : Path in RAW-converter broken with the letter "ß"<br>
031 ==> 178495 : MetadataEdit : Problem with metadata editor.<br>
032 ==> 175219 : PicasaWebExport : Album creating wrong date in picasaweb.<br>
033 ==> 175222 : PicasaWebExport : Unable to create non listed album.<br>
034 ==> 166672 : FbExport : Export to Facebook.<br>
035 ==> 129623 : FlickrExport : Option to upload to specific photoset.<br>
036 ==> 161775 : FlickrExport : Photoset support.<br><br>For more informations, please consult <a href="http://www.digikam.org/" target="_blank">www.digikam.org</a> and <a href="http://kipi-plugins.org/" target="_blank"><span>kipi</span>-<span>plugins</span>.org</a> web sites.<br>
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Best Regards<br><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888">
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Gilles Caulier<br>
digiKam team<br>
<a href="http://www.digikam.org/" target="_blank">http://www.digikam.org</a></font></font></font></font></font>
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