Kipi 0.1.4-beta1

[Gilles Caulier]

Name: Kipi
Version: 0.1.4-beta1
Type: Graphic Tool
Depend: KDE 3.4.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://www.kipi-plugins.org
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=16061

Description:
 Kipi is an effort to develop a common plug in
structure for digiKam, KPhotoAlbum, Showimg, and
GwenView. Its aim is to be able to share image
plugins among graphic applications. 

Nota : Kipi-plugins are based on the old
digiKam-plugins (0.6.x series) implementation. 

Plugins Overview :

 - GSPSync : a plugin to sync pictures metadata
with a GPS device.
 - MetadataEdit : a plugin to edit from EXIF and
IPTC pictures metadata.
 - IpodExport : a plugin to export pictures to an
Ipod device.
 - 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.  
- 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.  
- AcquireImages: 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.  
- FlickrExport: Export images to Flickr server. 
See the project page for more informations.  
- SimpleViewer: Export images collection to Flash
slideshow.
- HTMLExport : new image web gallery export plugin
with more advanced option than ImageGallery
plugin.

Online documentations : 
 
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-libs/kipi-plugins/index.html

NOTE:  
- Please, use the kipi mailing-list for all
comments. 
- Please, use KDE Bug Tracking System for Wishes,
and Bugs report.

Changelog:
 0.1.4-beta1 ------------------

NEW FEATURES

General : Moved Exiv2Iface class to a new shared
library named libkexiv2 used by kipi-plugins and
digiKam.

ImageViewer : initial import of new OpenGL based
image viewer.

RAWConverter : Port plugin to libkdcraw shared
library.

Printwizard : Printwizard can print 8 photos per
page (A4)

MPEGEncoder : Avoid to pass img2mpg script
unmanaged file path.

GPSSync : New plugin feature to export GPS
locations from pictures to Google Maps / Google
Earth.

BUG FIXING from B.K.O (http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 139264 : General      : Prefer Exif
DateTimeOriginal for image date/time
(DateTimeDigitized and DateTime only used as
fallback)
002 ==> 139074 : SendImages   : Format missmatch
at sendimages.cpp ('int' vs. 'size_t').
003 ==> 140132 : MetadataEdit : Comments should
sync to IPTC Caption First.
006 ==> 138241 : SendImages   : A patch that adds
support for the Claws Mail MUA.
007 ==> 140865 : RAWConverter : Plugin does not
work (image can not be converted).
008 ==> 141528 : JPEGLossLess : Remove
confirmation dialog for image rotate.
009 ==> 141530 : JPEGLossLess : Use Rotate
left/right instead of degrees.
010 ==> 142848 : GPSSync      : Timezone needs to
go to GMT +13.
011 ==> 140297 : GPSSync      : GPS kipi plugin
truncates input coordinates, introducing
inacuracy.
012 ==> 143594 : GPSSync      : Bad Interpolation
in correlate gpssync.
014 ==> 139793 : GPSSync      : KML google export
import.
015 ==> 142259 : GalleruExport: Export to Gallery
2.2-RC-1 fails.
016 ==> 135945 : FLickrExport : Tags with spaces
are exported as multible tags.
017 ==> 146084 : SlideShow    : Slide show
interface suggestions.
018 ==> 145771 : MPEGEncoder  : Gnome Desktop
crashes and restarts when select Cancel option for
Mpeg Slideshow plugin

0.1.3 ------------------

BUG FIXING from B.K.O (http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 137582 : GalleryExport : Add preliminary
support for Gallery 2.2 security features
002 ==> 132220 : SendImages    : Solved problems
with filenames and commandline with thunderbird
and mozilla

0.1.3-RC1 -----------------

NEW FEATURES

Slideshow     : Show image comments (configurable)


BUG FIXING from B.K.O (http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 138410 : General     :
kipi-plugins-0.1.3-beta1 requires latest
libkipi/libkexif.
002 ==> 106133 : Slideshow   : Show image comments
in slideshow mode.
003 ==> 124057 : SendImages  : Problems sending
jpeg-pictures from digiKam using the "send
picture"-feature.
004 ==> 108147 : Slideshow   : Interval below 1
second.

0.1.3-BETA1 -----------------

NEW FEATURES

New Plugin    : MetadataEdit : New kipi plugin to
edit EXIF and IPTC pictures metadata (by Gilles
Caulier).
New Plugin    : GPSSync      : New kipi plugin to
sync photo metadata with a GPS device (by Gilles
Caulier).
New Plugin    : IpodExport   : New kipi plugin to
export pictures to an ipod device (by Seb Ruiz).

GalleryExport : Support for multiple galleries.

HTMLExport    : New "s0" theme from Petr Vanek

JPEGLossLess  : Removed libmagic++ depency.
JPEGLossLess  : Removed libkexif depency. Using
Exiv2 instead.

RAWConverter  : New core to be compatible with
recent dcraw release. A lot 
                of RAW decoding settings have been
added.
RAWConverter  : Embedding ouput color space in
target image (JPEG/PNG/TIFF).
RAWConverter  : Metadata preservation in target
image during Raw conversion (JPEG/PNG).
RAWConverter  : Removing external dcraw depency.
Now plugin include a full supported version of 
                dcraw program in core.
RAWConverter  : updated dcraw.c implementation to
version 8.41.

SendImages    : Added image size limit x mail.
 
TimeAdjust    : Removed libkexif depency. Using
Exiv2 instead.
TimeAdjust    : New option to customize Date and
Time to a specific timestamp.
TimeAdjust    : New options sync EXIF/IPTC
Creation Date with timestamp.


BUGFIX from B.K.O (http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 127101 : BatchProcess : expand sequence
number start value in batch rename images.
002 ==>  94494 : GalleryExport: support for
multiple galleries.
003 ==> 128394 : RAWCanverter : convertion of RAW
files fails with dcraw 8.21
004 ==> 132659 : FlickrExport : "Missing
signature" - Flickr API changed and upload of 
                                images is no
longer possible.
005 ==> 107905 : RAWConverter : copy exif data
from raw to converted images.
006 ==> 119537 : JPEGLossLess : Exif width and
height are not corrected after lossless rotation.
007 ==> 91545  : Slideshow    : plugin does
nothing if an album only contains subalbums, but
no 
                                images directly or
is empty.
008 ==> 134749 : GPS Sync     : altitude shown is
wrong.
009 ==> 134298 : SimpleViewer : save settings /
keep settings missing!
010 ==> 134747 : GPS Sync     : not optimal
correlation.
011 ==> 135157 : GPS Sync     : warning about
changes not applied always appear even when
already applied.
012 ==> 135237 : GPS Sync     : filenames with
multiple periods in them do not show up in the
file 
                                listing (incorrect
extension identification).
013 ==> 135484 : GPS Sync     : thumbnail
generation for multible images can cause severe
overload.
014 ==> 135353 : GPS Sync     : the name of the
plugin is missleading.
015 ==> 136257 : MetadataEdit : Editing the
EXIF-data overwrites all the data for selected
files.
016 ==> 128341 : HTMLExport   : kipi html export
should not resize images if "resize target images"

                                is not checked.
017 ==> 127476 : PrintWizzard : Printing as very
very slow (added a workaround running kjobviewer)
018 ==> 136941 : BatchProcess : graphical picture
ordering and renaming.
019 ==> 136855 : MetadataEdit : Editing metadata
on a few selected imagefiles and clicking forward 
                                or apply crashes
digiKam.
020 ==> 135408 : BatchProcess : Window does not
fit on screen.
021 ==> 117399 : BatchProcess : Usability of
Target folder.
022 ==> 137921 : MetadataEdit : wrong country code
in IPTC.

0.1.2 ------------------------

Compilation fix release.

0.1.1 ------------------------

Compilation fix release.

0.1.0 ------------------------

NEW FEATURES

GalleryExport : added Gallery 2 version support.
ImageGallery  : removed is removed and replaced by
HTML export plugin.

BUGFIX from B.K.O (http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 117105 : Calendar      : Calendar tool
should use internationalized country setting.
002 ==> 101656 : CDArchive     : Use irretating
filenames foo.jpeg.jpeg for images.
003 ==> 128125 : CDArchive     : Album title from
digikam are not converted into html entities.
004 ==> 123978 : GalleryExport : "Invalid
response" error when exporting images to Gallery
1.5.2.
005 ==> 96352  : GalleryExport : Can not login
into Gallery2.
006 ==> 123141 : GalleryExport : Gallery Export -
manage several cookies.
007 ==> 88887  : HTMLExport    : No Exif-rotation
in HTML export.
008 ==> 115474 : HTMLExport    : Web export creats
duplicate extensions.
009 ==> 120739 : HTMLExport    : Wrong thumbnail
for album.
010 ==> 89068  : HTMLExport    : Improvement for
the HTML export plugin.
011 ==> 90943  : HTMLEXPORT    : Add CSS
functionality.
012 ==> 95116  : HTMLEXPORT    : Incremental local
export or other easy web publishing method.
013 ==> 96009  : HTMLEXPORT    : Unnecessary
deletion of directories in "export HTML" .
014 ==> 96363  : HTMLEXPORT    : Option to save
full/different sized images in gallery.
015 ==> 107380 : HTMLEXPORT    : Split long html
pages by number of images per page.
016 ==> 108696 : HTMLEXPORT    : Themable html
export.
017 ==> 109708 : HTMLEXPORT    : Number of
thumbnails per row should be in the same tab as
size of thumbnail.
018 ==> 109709 : HTMLEXPORT    : Create target dir
when it does not exist.
019 ==> 109710 : HTMLEXPORT    : Make clicking on
image going to the next image.
020 ==> 111136 : HTMLEXPORT    : export to
non-local directory (fish://) does not work.
021 ==> 111509 : HTMLEXPORT    : Subalbums not
supported by HTML export.
022 ==> 111880 : HTMLEXPORT    : New option to add
original image (as link in thumbnail).
023 ==> 112107 : HTMLEXPORT    : Avi files in html
exports.
024 ==> 113355 : HTMLEXPORT    : Add
auto-forwarding (slide show) to HTML-Export.
025 ==> 127219 : MPEGEncoder   : Creation of mpeg
slide show fails.
026 ==> 127532 : MPEGEncoder   : 'image2mpg' wrong
directory error.
027 ==> 101455 : RAWConverter  : Make it possible
to enter numbers with 2 digit precision in RAW
converter dialog.

0.1.0-RC2 -----------------

NEW FEATURES

New Plugin    : HTMLExport   : new images gallery
export supporting XHTML and CSS (by Aurelien
Gateau).
New Plugin    : SimpleViewer : new plugin to
export to flash web page (by Joern Ahrens)

BUGFIX from B.K.O (http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 120242 : HTMLExport   : Bad sorting of
images in html export.
002 ==> 112025 : HTMLExport   : digiKam overwrites
albums previously exported to HTML.
003 ==> 106152 : HTMLExport   : Creates faulty
links when choosing picture filenames derived from
the EXIF info.
004 ==> 119933 : HTMLExport   : Image gallery has
problems with german umlauts in
file-/directorynames.
005 ==> 99418  : HTMLExport   : Help menu in
progress dialog refers to batch process plugin
about instead of image gallery plugins.
006 ==> 103449 : HTMLExport   : Title and name of
album are together and album with accents do not
function.
007 ==> 110596 : HTMLExport   : Apos entitity is
not correct for HTML (it is XML entity).
008 ==> 116605 : HTMLExport   : Crash when
exporting to an existing dir an choosing no to
overwrite.
009 ==> 123499 : JPEGLossLess : RAW images are
rotated wrong.
010 ==> 99157  : KameraKlient : Some kameraklient
source files miss copyright and license info.
011 ==> 98286  : PrintWizard  : Print Wizard has
wrong default paper size.
012 ==> 101495 : PrintWizard  : Raster effect on
printout.
013 ==> 117670 : PrintWizard  : Printing is
awfully slow.
014 ==> 108945 : BatchProcess : Batch image
filtering overwrite mode: always overwrite doesn't
work.
015 ==> 117397 : BatchProcess : batchplugins
'start' not disabled when target folder is not
writeable orwith no image in list.
016 ==> 114512 : BatchProcess : The checkbox
"Remove original" is left disabled after a
preview.
017 ==> 120868 : Calendar     : Failed to create
PDF callendar
018 ==> 118936 : calendar     : kipi calendar
wizard should default to next year.
019 ==> 109739 : MpegEncoder  : yuvscaler error in
digikam.
020 ==> 114514 : MpegEncoder  : Do not delete the
temporary folder
"~/tmp/kde-user/kipi-mpegencoderplugin-PID/" after

                                each encoding
process.
021 ==> 114515 : MpegEncoder  : Verify the
existence of the MPEG output file path and the
existence of the audio input file 
                                before launching
the encoding process.
022 ==> 114519 : AcquireImage : Crash when
stopping a Final Scan.
023 ==> 103763 : RAWConverter : Rawconverter
(single) should fill a default file name into the
save as dialog.
024 ==> 118407 : RAWConverter : dcrawprocess.cpp
does not compileon Solaris
025 ==> 119562 : SendImages   : A patch that adds
support for the Sylpheed-Claws mua.
026 ==> 119867 : Slideshow    : Different icon
types used by slideshow for for
backwards/forwards.

0.1.0-RC1 -----------------

NEW FEATURES

New Plugin     : FlickrExport : new plugin to
upload pictures on Flickr web service.

SendImages     : support for Thunderbird and
GmailAgent.
Calendar       : The weekdays are now localized.
HTMLExport     : Export multiple tags to an
html-page.
JPEGLossLess   : Rotate or flip your images
lossless, while preserving  the timestamp.
RAWConverter   : Supports of dcraw>=6.x.

BUGFIX from B.K.O (http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 108227 : SendImages   : Thunderbird will
not open when sending emails in digiKam.
002 ==> 98269  : CDArchive    : Status bar in
archive to CD/DVD goes to 100% while creating
thumbs.
003 ==> 89394  : CDArchive    : Make
CDArchivingplugin work when
ImageCollection!=Folder.
004 ==> 91651  : CDArchive    : Running
cdarchiving plugin from kimdaba sends all images
to the cd, not just the selected images.
005 ==> 100877 : CDArchive    : kimdaba can not
create temporary directories for CD-archive.
006 ==> 110391 : BatchProcess : Batch rename
removes tags and comments.
007 ==> 110659 : BatchProcess : Batch rename
function makes copies instead of renaming.
008 ==> 110698 : TimeAdjust   : Adjust time and
date does not work.
009 ==> 110575 : BatchProcess : Crash when
renaming images.
010 ==> 99895  : BatchProcess : Rename ordered by
modification date sorts by name.
011 ==> 104032 : BatchProcess : Renaming images
takes a lot memory and time.
012 ==> 105727 : BatchProcess : digiKam adds to
the first picture an additional "_1".
013 ==> 110508 : BatchProcess : Umlauts-conversion
error when renaming images.
014 ==> 104511 : BatchProcess : Why a destination
path for a rename action ? "No valid URL" when
blank.
015 ==> 102219 : HTMLExport   : When you export
html from a tags gallery links are incorrect.
016 ==> 98199  : HTMLExport   : Missing whitespace
in german html-export (headline).
017 ==> 108537 : JPEGLossLess : Plugin change file
date/time. Could this be made optional since I
want to keep 
                                the original file
date/time.
018 ==> 101110 : MPEGEncoder  : Cannot create MPEG
from photos using transitions.
019 ==> 103282 : Slideshow    : No exif-rotation.