<div dir="ltr">Dear all digiKam fans and users!<br>
<br>
The Kipi development team is happy to release the 2nd <span>KDE4</span> beta<br>
version of plugins for digiKam. The tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url:<br><br>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641&package_id=34800" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149779&package_id=165761</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>In this release, a new plugin have been added to batch convert RAW camera images to Adobe DNG container (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Negative_(file_format)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Negative_(file_format)</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 bottom of this page for details :<br>
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<a href="http://www.digikam.org/drupal/download?q=download/svn" target="_blank">http://www.digikam.org/drupal/download?q=download/svn</a><br>
<br>For others depencies, consult the README file. There are also optional depencies to enable some plugins as libxml2 for HTLMExport or OpenGL for SlideShow tool.<br><br>NEW FEATURES:<br><br>General : Port to CMake/KDE4/QT4.<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 16 bits color depth using same auto-gamma and auto-white methods <br>
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>
<br>Kipi-plugins BUG FIXING from B.K.O (<a href="http://bugs.kde.org/" target="_blank">http://bugs.kde.org</a>):<br><br>001 ==> 135451 : GPSSync : Improve the gui of the gpssync plugin.<br>
002 ==> 135386 : GPSSync : Show track on the google map.<br>003 ==> 149497 : GPSSync : Geolocalization kipi plugin does not work with non-jpeg file types.<br>004 ==> 145746 : GPSSync : Do not recreate thumbs when geolocalizing images.<br>
005 ==> 134299 : SimpleViewer : Read orientation of image from EXIF.<br>006 ==> 158792 : GPSsync : Plugin do not working with Canon RAW CR2.<br>007 ==> 165078 : GPSSync : GPS correlator does not show thumbnails.<br>
008 ==> 165278 : GPSSync : Geotagging dialog doesn't display all thumbnails.<br>009 ==> 150076 : SlideShow : Playing music during a slideshow<br><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">kipi-plugins.org</a> web sites.<br>
<br>Gilles Caulier<br>digiKam project<br><br></div>