[Digikam-users] New release of libkipi, libkexif and the Kipi-plugins

[Tom Albers]

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 JPEG's without loosing meta info 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: Send images by email. 
- 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

Packages for debian are just uploaded into unstable (sid):
   http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kipi-plugins
   http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libkipi0c2
   http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libkexif1c2

Doxygen documentation for libkipi:
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/extragear-libs-apidocs/libkipi/html/index.html

More information will be added to the homepage of the project:
   http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kipi/

Tom Albers
kipi-team
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