[Digikam-devel] Concept release announcements.

Achim Bohnet ach at mpe.mpg.de
Fri Sep 23 08:50:42 BST 2005


On Thursday 22 September 2005 21:08, Tom Albers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> These are the announcements I want to sent. Any objections? 

Hi Tom,

I greatly appreciate your release managment work!
> 
> ***** Warning *****************************
> *
> *   The tarballs are ready for testing, but 
> *   if nobody tests them, I              
> *   could upload broken packages:

No time to build digikamimageplugins yet.
Others:
On kubuntu hoary and breezy they build fine.
enable-final is broken (that's normal ;) in digikam and kipi-plugins
no time to fix it yet.

> *
> *  http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/kipirelease/
> *  http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/0.8.0/
> *******************************************
> 
> (new is the digikamimageplugins beta 2 tarball, on request of achim)

Thx!
> 
> I will upload all 5 tarballs to sf on sunday and sent all announcements out. 

I'm not sure if I can create all debs before Monday or Tuesday night,
but this should not delay the release.  I've a busy weekend.

> 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

Gwenview.  They ...

> 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

to a flickr server (?)
> 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 
          follows
> 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!

Maybe a note about the database change for people going 0.7.* -> 0.8-beta2
Is there no need anymore to ask for the console output of the first 0.8
run?
> 
> 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 
                                                           helpful
> configured to single click is open (11695)
> - Showfoto's handbook was not showing properly (99497)

I assume there is no plans for *-doc-beta2?

> - 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.
    Fixed

> - 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
> 
> -- 
> http://www.kde.nl | http://www.digikam.org |irc: toma | toma at jabber.kovoks.nl
> 

Thx again,
Achim
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