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

Tue Jul 8 07:33:42 BST 2008

Thanks Marcel. all fixed.

Tarball uploaded to SF.net. release announce sent over the world.
Still to update web pages.

Best

Gilles

2008/7/7 Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de>:
>> 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
>>
>> //
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>-------------------------------
>>
>> 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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