[Digikam-devel] 0.8.0-beta1 release announcement.

[Gilles Caulier]

Le Mardi 23 Août 2005 08:43 AM, Renchi Raju a écrit :
> Release announcement attached:
>
> The digiKam team is pleased to bring to you the next generation
> of the user-friendly digital photo management software and its
> image plugins. The primary focus for this release is new ways
> of photo organization and searching. This release is the result of
> 4 months of development and we hope it will be as much fun for
> you to use it as we had developing it.
>
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>
> The noteworthy features in this release:
>
> * NEW USER INTERFACE: Albums and Tags have been separated out into
>   different views and these views are collapsible.
> * 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.
> * 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.
> * MEMORY OPTIMIZATION: Thumbnails are now loaded on demand
>   and only a fixed cache of thumbnails is kept in memory
> * 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
> * IMAGE PLUGIN CHANGES :
>  - Plugin dialogs have been revamped for better usability
>    and easier comparison of filter effects.
>  - Plugin computations are now threaded
>  - Plugin preview is now resizable.
>  - BigEndian fixes.
> * NEW IMAGE PLUGIN 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
>    camera CCD.
>
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>
> Further information about digiKam and digiKamImagePlugins is
> available from the following websites:
>
> http://www.digikam.org
> http://extragear.kde.org/apps/digikamimageplugins

Nice (:=)))... Let's go...

Gilles