[Digikam-devel] 0.8.0-beta1 release announcement.

[Gerhard Kulzer]

> On 8/21/05, Renchi Raju <renchi.raju at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can come up with a tentative announcement later during the day or
> > night.
>
> I'm trying to come up with a list of new features to be included in
> the release announcement. Here's a tentative list (feel free to
> whittle down and add new items). Gilles, can you add the new features
> added in the imageplugins and libraries:
>
> * NEW USER INTERFACE: Albums and Tags have been separated out into
>   different views and these views are collapsible.
> * DATE BASED VIRTUAL FOLDERS: Each corresponding to the month in
>   which the pictures were taken. Its also possible to filter this
>   view to show photos from single or multiple day(s) and week(s)
> * SEARCHING: Two interfaces have been implemented for searching
>   on photos:
>   - QUICK SEARCH: a keyword based search which also allows
>     date based lookups
>   - ADVANCED SEARCH: build rules and groups of rules to do
>     very precise searches.
>   - LIVE FEEDBACK: Both searches show instant results based on
>     the current search criteria
> * SEARCH BASED VIRTUAL FOLDERS: The searches can be saved as
>   virtual folders and its possible to edit the search criterion
>   later.
> * TAG FILTERING: A new view has been added to the right side
>   which allows quick drag and drop tag assignments and also
>   filtering of photos in the current view. This view is again
>   collapsible
> * ALBUM LOCATION INDICATOR: When photos are shown from a virtual
>   folder (tag, date or search), the photos are grouped together
>   based on album locations.
> * PHOTO DATES AND COMMENTS: Photos are now scanned for their
>   metadata which is then stored in the database. The EXIF
>   timestamp (if available) is used for sorting and searching.

I would suggest that this feature be mentioned as the first one. It's what was 
causing a 'whow' with everybody I announced it to. And it gives the date 
based view another quality.

> * MEMORY OPTIMIZATION: Thumbnails are now loaded on demand
>   and a fixed cache of thumbnails is kept
> * NEW THEMES: Dark, Sandy and Orange Crush
> * BACKEND CHANGES:
>   - Database upgraded to sqlite3
>   - New kioslaves for handling date, search, tag, album listing
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