[Digikam-devel] Concept release announcements.

[Gilles Caulier]

Le Jeudi 22 Septembre 2005 09:08 PM, Tom Albers a écrit :

Tom, i will test these tarballs under Mandriva 2005 today.

Your announce is great. Good works (félicitations).

Gilles

> Hi,
>
>
> These are the announcements I want to sent. Any objections?
>
> ***** Warning *****************************
> *
> *   The tarballs are ready for testing, but
> *   if nobody tests them, I
> *   could upload broken packages:
> *
> *  http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/kipirelease/
> *  http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/0.8.0/
> *******************************************
>
> (new is the digikamimageplugins beta 2 tarball, on request of achim)
>
> I will upload all 5 tarballs to sf on sunday and sent all announcements
> out.
>
> Tom
>
> --------------- KIPI & Co.
>
> The kipi-team is pleased to announce the release candidate of the
> kipi-plugins and new releases of libkipi and libkexif.
>
> << News kipi-plugins >>
> Kipi-plugins are plugins which you can use in digiKam, KimDaBa, Showimg and
> Gwenview, they provide all kinds of export and manipulation tools for your
> images. From the previous beta version we have fixed a major amount of
> bugs, and we would now like to have feedback so we can squash the remaining
> bugs.
>
> New in this version is the flickr upload plugin: you can now easily upload
> your images to the flickr server. Sendimages now has support for
> Thunderbird and GmailAgent. We fixed numerous bugs in the CDArchiving
> plugin, it should work fine again with K3b. Rename images had some issues,
> we rewrote the user interface and fixed several bugs. The weekdays of the
> calendar were not localized. We fixed the ImagesGallery, so you can export
> multiple tags to a html-page. You can now rotate or flip your images
> lossless, while preserving the timestamp. The rawconverter now supports
> dcraw>=6.x.
>
> More information about the bugs can be found in the following bugreports:
> 108227, 98269, 89394,91651,100877,100568,110391,110659,110698,
> 110575,99895,104032,105727,110508,104511,97178,102219, 98199,
> 108537, 101110. 9943 .103282
>
> << Overview Plugins >>
>
> With this version the following plugins are available:
>
> - RawConverter: A raw image converter for digital cameras.
> - SlideShow: Slideshow with effects and 3D effects using OpenGL.
> - MpegEncoder: Create an MPEG slideshow from your images.
> - ImagesGallery: An HTML gallery generator.
> - PrintWizard: A wizard to print images in various format.
> - JpegLossLess: Process your JPEG's without losing meta information and
> compression.
> - CdArchiving: Archive your albums on CD or DVD using K3b.
> - ScanImages: Scanner management using Kooka.
> - ScreenshotImages: Snap screen based on KSnapshot and adapted to Kipi.
> - Calendar: A plugin to create calendars.
> - SendImages: A plugin to send images by email, allowing resizing and
> recompressing before sending.
> - RenameImages: Batch image renamer.
> - ConvertImages: Batch image converter.
> - BorderImages: Add border to your images in batch.
> - FilterImages: Batch image enhancer using digital filters.
> - ColorImages: Batch image color enhancer.
> - EffectImages: Batch image transformation effects.
> - ResizeImages: Batch image resizer.
> - RecompressImages: Batch image recompressor.
> - FindDuplicateImages: Find duplicate images in albums.
> - WallPaper: Set your image as wallpaper.
> - TimeAdjust: Adjust image file time and date.
> - GalleryExport: Export image collections to a remote Gallery web server.
> - KameraKlient: Digikam 0.6.2 Gphoto2 interface ported as a Kipi plugin.
> *New*: - FlickrExport: Export images to Flickr server.
>
> << News libkipi >>
>
> Libkipi is the library you have to use when you want to use the
> kipi-plugins in your application.  This release adds support for -f
> visibility and changes some of the licenses, corrects the homepage URL and
> includes some doxygen fixes.  More details can be found in the ChangeLog.
>
> << News libexif >>
>
> Libkexif is a library for manipulating EXIF information embedded in images.
> It currently supports viewing of all EXIF information via libexif. It also
> supports the modification of a few attributes in a safe way that preserves
> all other EXIF information in the file. More details about the changes in
> this release can be found in the ChangeLog.
>
> << Where to get it >>
>
> You can download all three from digiKam's SourceForge area:
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/digikam/
>
> Packages for kubuntu will soon arrive at:
>    http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/kubuntu/hoary/Pkgs.php
>
> Doxygen documentation for the libraries:
>    http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/
>
> Tom Albers
> kipi-team
>
>
> -------------- digiKam and co
>
> The digiKam team is proud to provide a second beta of digiKam 0.8. This
> release followes one month after beta 1 and we now ask everyone to test
> this version so we can resolve the remaining bugs. To make things as easy
> as possible, you can launch this beta version by executing
> klik://digikam-latest
>
> There now is simply no reason to not test this version. Please take a
> moment and report all your problems!
>
> In comparisation to beta 1, we have fixed the following bugs:
> - Crash on rogue jpeg file (bug 112801)
> - Disable "remove tags" menu item when there are no common tags (111798)
> - Added some more extensions we support
> - A protocol error prevented correct drap-and-drop to other applications
> - When a camera was added to the toolbar, the icon wasn't displayed after
> program restart
> - A caching problem was visible when an image was saved with "Save As" with
> a filename that  already existed in the album.
> - Fixed a crash when adding items to showfoto's toolbar
> - Fixed some problems in showfoto with 'Save As'
> - Fixed some thumbnail caching problems in ShowFoto (111873)
> - Some more space was created to select images, which is helpfull when KDE
> is configured to single click is open (11695)
> - Showfoto's handbook was not showing properly (99497)
> - Size of the search window is now saved
> - Better error handling when there is a permission problem when moving
> images - A progress dialog was blocking an error dialog in some cases.
> - Some optimalisation was done in the comments / tag editor.
> - New color gradient for the histogram.
> - Fixed a problem where it was not possible to delete folders with
> subfolders. - Fied bug so window dimensions where not saved correctly
> sometimes. - Improvement to the thumbbar of showfoto to keep the next thumb
> visible. - red eye correction configuration was not saved
>
> You can read more about the 0.8 series in the release announcement of beta
> 1, available at our website (www.digikam.org)
>
> << Where to get it >>
>
> You can download all three from digiKam's SourceForge area:
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/digikam/
>
> Packages for kubuntu will soon arrive at:
>    http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/kubuntu/hoary/Pkgs.php
>
> Klik:
>    klik://digikam-latest
>
> Tom Albers
> digiKam team

-- 
Gilles Caulier