[Digikam-devel] 0.8.0-beta1 release announcement.

[Gilles Caulier]

Le Lundi 22 Août 2005 07:36 AM, Renchi Raju a écrit :
> 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.
> * 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

* SHOWFOTO : new Slide Show tool.

* COMMON IMAGE PLUGINS CHANGES :
 - new plugins dialog layout ("à la PowerRetouche.com"). Image previews on the 
left, settings on the right.
 - plugins computation are now threaded outside dialogs.
 - plugins dialog and preview resizable.
 - new image preview tool more easy to use for compare filter effects.
 - Fix PPC compatibility.

* NEW IMAGE PLUGINS FEATURES :

 - Aspect Ratio Crop : new photograph composition guide tool based on 
Fibonacci series (golden mean).
 - New Color AutoCorrection tool with preview (Normalize, Autolevels, 
Equalize, and Stretch Contrast).
 - Free Rotation : Auto crop and antialiasing options.
 - Shear Tool : Antialiasing option.

* NEW IMAGE PLUGINS : 
 - Refocus : An advanced sharpness editor.
 - HotPixels : An hot pixels removal tool to fix bad pixels from deficient 
camera CCD.

Tom, we need to list all bugs # fixed. Use digikam Changelog for that.

Gilles