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

Tue Jul 8 08:35:29 BST 2008

kde-apps.org web page updated. In fact the old DigikamImagePlugins
page have been remplaced by a page for digiKam for KDE4 :

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/digiKam?content=16082

For the KDE3 version this page still available :

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/digiKam?content=9957

Best

Gilles Caulier

2008/7/8 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> 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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