[Digikam-devel] 0.10.0-beta1 release announce to review

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> Hi all,
>
> See below the announce to review before to release 0.10.0-beta1.
>
> Thanks in advance for your reports.

A few typos corrected

>
> Gilles Caulier
>
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>
> Dear all digiKam fans and users!
>
> The digiKam development team is happy to release the first KDE4 beta
> release of your prefered photo-management sofware.
> The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641&package_id=3480
>0
>
> After one year of 

> developpement,
development (that was French ;-))

> porting code to KDE4/Qt4 api, and  
> backporting new features from KDE3 branch, we have
> decided to make a first try with this beta release.
>
> But take a care, it's a BETA code with a lots of 

> know bugs not yet 
known

> fixed... To resume :
>
> "DO NOT USE YET IN PRODUCTION"
>
> ... but stiil to use KDE3 version for production. 0.9.x 
> code still maintened 
code is still maintained

> and next 0.9.4 release will be released soon. 
>
> To compile this KDE4 version, you need libkexiv2, libkdcraw, and
> libkipi for KDE4. These libraries
> are now included in KDE 4.1-beta2 by default. There is no more
> separate tarball planed for these libraries.
>
> Note for KDE 4.0.x users : you can extract libraries source code from
> svn, and compile all as well. 
> It's work fine. 
It works fine

> You don't need especially KDE 4.1.x code for the moment. Look at
> bottom of this page for details :
>
> http://www.digikam.org/drupal/download?q=download/svn
>
> For others depencies, look in README file. There are also optional
> depencies to enable some new features as lensfun for lens
> auto-correction , and marble for geolocation.
>
> The digikam.org web site 
> have been redisigned for the new KDE4 series. 
has been redesigned
> All screenshots have been updated and a lots of video 
> demo have been 
demos
> added:
>
> http://www.digikam.org/drupal/tour
> http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/323
>
> NEW FEATURES:
>
> General        : Ported to CMake/Qt4/KDE4.
> General        : Thumbs KIO-Slave removed. digiKam now use
> multi-threading to generate thumnails.
> General        : Removed all X11 library dependencies. Code is now
> portable under MACOS-X and Win32.
> General        : Support of XMP metadata (require Exiv2 0.16).
> General        : Hardware handling using KDE4 Solid interface.
> General        : Preview of Video and Audio files using KDE4 Phonon
> interface. General        : Database file can be stored on a customized
> place to support remote album library path.
> General        : Support of multiple roots album paths.
> General        : Physical root albums are managed as real album.
> General        : New option in Help menu to list all RAW file formats
> supported. General        : Geolocation of pictures from sidebars is now
> delegate to KDE4 Marble widget.
>
>
> CameraGUI  : New design for camera interface.
> CameraGUI  : New Capture tool.
> CameraGUI  : New bargraph to display camera media free-space.
>
> AlbumGUI    : Added Thumbbar with Preview mode to easy navigate
> between pictures.
> AlbumGUI    : Integration of Simple Text Search tool to left sidebar as
> Amarok. AlbumGUI    : New advanced Search tools. Re-design of Search
> backend, based on XML.
>                      Re-design of search dialog for a better usability.
>                      Searches based on metadata and image properties
> are now possible.
> AlbumGUI    : New fuzzy Search tools based on sketch drawing template.
>                      Fuzzy searches backend use an Haar wevelet interface.
>                      You simply draw a rough sketch of what you want
> to find and digiKam displays
>                      for you a thumbnail view of the best matches.
> AlbumGUI    : New Search tools based on marble widget to find pictures
> over a map.
> AlbumGUI    : New Search tools to find similar images against a
> reference image.
> AlbumGUI    : New Search tools to find duplicates images around whole
> collections.
>
> ImageEditor : Added Thumbbar to easy navigate between pictures.
> ImageEditor : New plugin based on LensFun library
> (http://lensfun.berlios.de) to correct automaticaly lens aberrations.
> ImageEditor : LensDistortion and AntiVignetting are now merged with
> LensFun plugin
>
>
> BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA (alias B.K.O | http://bugs.kde.org):
>
> 001 ==> 146864 : Lesser XMP support in digiKam.
> 002 ==> 145096 : Request: acquire mass storage from printer as from
> camera. Change menu "Camera" to "Acquire".
> 003 ==> 134206 : Rethink about: Iptc.Application2.Urgency <==> digiKam
> Rating. 004 ==> 149966 : Alternative IPTC Keyword Separator (dot notation).
> 005 ==> 129437 : Album could point to network path. Now it's
> impossible to view photos from shared network drive.
> 006 ==> 137694 : Allow album pictures to be stored on network devices.
> 007 ==> 114682 : About library path.
> 008 ==> 122516 : Album Path cannot be on Network device (Unmounted).
> 009 ==> 107871 : Allow multiple album library path.
> 010 ==> 105645 : Impossible to not copy images in ~/Pictures.
> 011 ==> 132697 : Metadata list has no scrollbar.
> 012 ==> 148502 : Show rating in embedded preview / slideshow.
> 013 ==> 155408 : Thumbbar in the album view.
> 014 ==> 138290 : GPSSync plugin integration in the side bar.
> 015 ==> 098651 : Image Plugin filter based on clens.
> 016 ==> 147426 : Search for non-voted pics
> 017 ==> 149555 : Always present search box instead of search by
> right-clicking and selecting simple or advanced search.
> 018 ==> 139283 : IPTC Caption comment in search function.
> 019 ==> 150265 : Avanced search filter is missing search in comment /
> description.
> 020 ==> 155735 : Make it possible to search on IPTC-text.
> 021 ==> 147636 : GUI error in advanced searches: lots of free space.
> 022 ==> 158866 : Advanced Search on Tags a mess.
> 023 ==> 149026 : Search including sub-albums.
> 024 ==> 153070 : Search for image by geo-location.
> 025 ==> 154764 : Pictures saved into root album folder are not shown.
> 026 ==> 162678 : digiKam crashed while loading.
> 027 ==> 104067 : Duplicate image finder should offer more actions on
> duplicate images found.
> 028 ==> 107095 : Double image removal: Use trashcan.
> 029 ==> 112473 : findimages shows only small thumbnails.
> 030 ==> 150077 : Find Duplicate Images tool quite unusable on many
> images (a couple of issues).
> 031 ==> 161858 : Find Duplicate Image fails with Canon Raw Files.
> 032 ==> 162152 : Batch Duplicate Image Management.
> 033 ==> 164418 : GPS window zoom possibility.
> 034 ==> 117287 : Search albums on read only album path.
> 035 ==> 164600 : No picture in view pane.
> 036 ==> 164973 : Showfoto crashed at startup.
> 037 ==> 165275 : build-failure - imageresize.cpp - 'KToolInvocation'
> has not been declared.
> 038 ==> 165292 : albumwidgetstack.cpp can't find Phonon/MediaObject.
> 039 ==> 165341 : Crash when changing histogram channel when welcome
> page is shown.
> 040 ==> 165318 : digiKam doesn't start because of SQL.
> 041 ==> 165342 : Crash when changing album sort modus.
> 042 ==> 165338 : Right sidebar initally too big.
> 043 ==> 165280 : Sqlite2 component build failure.
> 044 ==> 165769 : adjustcurves.cpp - can't find version.h
>
> Best Regards
>
> Gilles Caulier
> digiKam team
> http://www.digikam.org
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