[Kde-announce-apps] digiKam 0.9.1
Gilles Caulier
frenchpass at free.fr
Sat Mar 10 09:14:48 CET 2007
Name: digiKam
Version: 0.9.1
Type: Graphic Tool
Depend: KDE 3.4.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://www.digikam.org
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9957
Description:
digiKam is a digital photo management application
for KDE, which makes importing, organizing, and
searching digital photos a "snap".
The photos can be organized in albums which can be
sorted chronologically, by directory layout or by
custom collections.
An easy to use interface is provided that enables
you to connect to your camera and preview,
download and/or delete your images. digiKam
includes too an image editor for image corrections
and manipulations whitch can be extended by
plugins available in DigikamImagePlugins project.
Showfoto is a stand alone digiKam image editor
version. It's support too digiKam image editor
plugins framework.
digiKam uses 2 plugin frameworks for additional
functionalities:
-KipiPlugins (main interface).
-DigikamImagePlugins (Image Editor and Showfoto).
See the related project pages for more
informations :
http://www.digikam.org
http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kipi
http://extragear.kde.org/apps/digikamimageplugins
Online documentations :
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/index.html
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/showfoto/index.html
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikamimageplugins/index.html
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-libs/kipi-plugins/index.html
NOTE:
- Please, use the digiKam mailing-list for all
comments [digikam-users at kde.org and
digikam-devel at kde.org].
- Please, use KDE Bug Tracking System for Wishes,
and Bugs report
[http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=digikam].
Changelog:
0.9.1 RELEASE
======================================
001 ==> 141663 : Keep getting prompted to Apply
Comments
002 ==> 139024 : Camera GUI new items selection
doesn't work
003 ==> 139547 : Tag hierarchy automatic fill
004 ==> 141626 : Bugs in german translations
005 ==> 141786 : Confirmation dialog during rename
to existing file does not work
006 ==> 141924 : Tags preview not updated in last
image of album
007 ==> 141934 : Incorrect capitalized string:
"back to album"
008 ==> 141961 : Long comments truncated in
slideshow
0.9.1-RC2 RELEASE
======================================
Nota: LibKexiv2 have been released to 0.1.1
BUGS FIXES :
001 ==> 141934 : Incorrect capitalized string:
"back to album".
002 ==> 141961 : Long comments truncated in
slideshow.
003 ==> 141980 : digiKam crash when rescan certain
files exiv2.
004 ==> 141924 : Tags preview not updated in last
image of album.
005 ==> 139024 : Camera GUI new items selection
doesn't work.
006 ==> 142109 : Turn under/over exposure display
on/off by click on corresponding icons.
0.9.1-RC1 RELEASE
======================================
NEW FEATURES :
- several more EXIF properties can be shown in
core slide show and comments
- speed-up of slide show and viewer (F3)
- faster loading of JPEGs in Preview Mode.
- core slide show (F9) can be cancelled
- mouse button pauses/restarts slide show
- mouse wheel skips though slide show
- Shift + F9 starts a slide show that walkes
recursively through the current view tree
- in IconView Ctrl+Space behaves like Ctrl+mouse
button
- metadata writing speed to a series of images has
improved ~ 10x (e.g. adding tags to many photos)
- add 4 buttons to revert to default settings of
mime types
BUGS FIXES :
001 ==> 141035 : Advanced Search gives error when
trying to search by rating.
002 ==> 116609 : Allow slideshow to be recursive.
003 ==> 141635 : Unclear text in digiKam.
004 ==> 141624 : Digikam crash when assigning a
new tag to a large number of photos.
005 ==> 131678 : Grey pictures in Digikam's image
editor.
0.9.1-BETA1 RELEASE
======================================
NEW FEATURES :
General:
- New native JPEG2000 image loader using Jasper
library witch can support 16 bits color depth
pictures.
- New optimized layout to show Comments & Tags
side bar contents.
- Tags View from Comments & Tags side bar support
drag & drop.
- New Batch tool to sync all pictures metadata
(EXIF/IPTC) with digiKam
database content.
- Add a status bar to Album Gui with a progress
bar, text bar, and navigate
bar.
- New native SlideShow tool witch use the Image
Preview feature. RAW files can be slided very
quickly.
AlbumGUI :
- Improvement of pop-up menu of Tags Filter View
and Comment & Tags about auto
selection/deselection of parents/child tags in
Tags treeview.
- Main Root album show a Welcome page for new
users (like Kmail or Konqueror).
- Video files can be previewed using an embedded
instance of default KDE media player.
- Preview picture mode use a memory cache to
speed-up loading.
- Preview picture mode pride a context pop-up
menu.
- Comments & Tags now support multiple selection
of items to apply properties.
- New option to set the action to do when user
right click on picture thumb: Load on Image Editor
or Show an embedded preview.
- Prefer Exif DateTimeOriginal for sorting images
(DateTimeDigitized and
DateTime only used as fallback)
Image Plugins:
- All tools remember settings between sessions.
- All tools render properly preview using Color
Managed View.
- All tools use the same keyboard shortcuts than
PhotoShop.
- New option in all Color corrections Tools to
show under-exposed and
over-exposed areas of corrected picture before to
apply corrections.
- Brightness/Contrast/Gamma : settings value
excursion are the same than
Photoshop.
- Add Border Tool : add new option to preserve
aspect ratio. Border Width can be set in pixels or
in percents accordingly with this setting.
- Perspective Tool : add a grid and
vertical/horizontal guide lines.
- Ratio-crop Tool : usability improvements from
Jaromir Malenko.
- Auto Color Correction Tool : add new filter to
perform auto-exposure
corrections.
Image Editor:
- Add new advanced options to keep ratio and
alignment about print pictures.
- Add 2 new advanced options to show under-exposed
or over-exposed pixels.
- Remove View->Histogram menu option. We have a
better histogram available in sidebar.
- Color profiles are tested now to avoid invalid
files.
- JPEG/PNG/TIFF/JPEG2000 file save settings are
now available in File Save dialog.
- JPEG file save settings include a red warning
about this lossy compression image format with a
link to wikipedia to aware users.
BUGS FIXES :
001 ==> 115157 : Usability: Image comments/tags
dialog: hard to find/see all already selected tags
(and to 'de'select them).
002 ==> 132309 : Wish: enhance video support in
digiKam.
003 ==> 115153 : Assigns tags not only to selected
images with drag and drop.
004 ==> 131743 : Comments and tag edit widgets
should retain focus when
changing image.
005 ==> 140412 : Comments/Tags sidebar steels
focus.
006 ==> 137491 : Editor image cache not flush when
an image is modified
outside digiKam.
007 ==> 138949 : Save/overwrite fails: wrong
dialog.
008 ==> 139197 : Crash during import of raw
imagefiles (DNG).
009 ==> 139313 : UTF-8 image comments are mangled
when input from image
editor.
010 ==> 136903 : If partition gets full during
camera/card copy there is no warning and empty
files are created.
011 ==> 133955 : Rating search: less, equal, and
larger comparison.
012 ==> 139547 : Tag hierarchy automatic fill.
013 ==> 138816 : gpcamera.cpp compile failure
CameraList camList.
014 ==> 93542 : Improvements to digiKam print
interface.
015 ==> 139658 : Tiff generated by photoshop is
either ignored by digiKam
image browser, or kills digiKam when regenerating
the database.
016 ==> 102032 : Wish: rating system for photos,
show/hide/sort by rating.
017 ==> 111446 : Bad behaviour when out of disk
space.
018 ==> 133516 : Tags set in Comments/Tags end up
on the wrong picture.
019 ==> 140136 : Aspect ratio crop and selection
widget improvements.
020 ==> 131600 : Set tag for multiple selection of
images.
021 ==> 137545 : Helper lines / cross wanted.
022 ==> 131170 : Add grid/auxiliary lines for
perspective correction tool.
023 ==> 138158 : Allow to edit multiple image
tags/comments at same time.
024 ==> 140234 : Thumbnail click default action.
025 ==> 135141 : Border size in pixel.
026 ==> 137696 : Border extent should not follow
image aspect ratio.
027 ==> 138444 : More clear/consistent color
management terminology.
028 ==> 140176 : Showfoto crashes when selecting a
filter.
029 ==> 130237 : Typos in digiKam plugin files.
030 ==> 138925 : External modules config dialog
lacks a select all button.
031 ==> 140038 : digiKam Image Editor crash on
right click after changing
toolbar.
032 ==> 139766 : Crash when displaying EXIF
metadata with Unicode comment
033 ==> 130017 : Wish: batch operation to save
existing comments in the files.
034 ==> 140320 : View menu should better fit after
Edit.
035 ==> 127617 : "Toggle Fullscreen" should be
located in "View" menu instead of "Settings" menu.
036 ==> 139264 : digiKam sorts pictures with wrong
exif tag.
037 ==> 140417 : Crash digiKam when delete image.
038 ==> 110514 : Enhanced selection, refactored
histogram.
039 ==> 140933 : Typo: Album Library Path.
040 ==> 141190 : digikam crash when invalid ICM
file at color profile
directory and you enter into PREFERENCES->COLOR
SPACE PROFILES.
041 ==> 123649 : JPEG/PNG quality settings at the
"save" dialog.
042 ==> 116518 : Use KIPI plugin for displaying
slideshows.
043 ==> 140304 : Start slideshow from the current
image.
044 ==> 140303 : slideshow must be relocated to
View menu from tools menu.
045 ==> 137503 : Tags are not written to image
file automatically.
046 ==> 136254 : Editing tags does not change
IPTC-keywords.
047 ==> 135655 : Proper full screen mode (no menu,
toolbar, statusbar,
sidebars)
0.9.0 RELEASE
======================================
This release improve support of "./configure
--enable-final" option everywhere.
BugFix :
#137461 : Typo croping must be cropping.
#135477 : View mode which shows the comment of an
image.
#137770 : digiKam doesn't keep original unix
rights when modifying comments/tags/rating.
#133091 : Changing date/time with numblock changes
also the orientation.
#137993 : Importing photos into albums results in
time/date file override with current one.
#138620 : Saving a picture destroy another
picture.
#119205 : Drag & Drop of image into librarypath
root dir ==> images are invisible.
#121651 : Export menu not available in context
menu from album.
#131601 : Need preview pane (large) in main
digikam window.
#133276 : Make changing EXIF date of multiple
files easier.
#133590 : Usability: walking through photos using
image View (F3).
#122746 : Images are not shown anymore. black
screen.
#132470 : Plugins not available unless logged in
as superuser.
#113801 : Little problem with image files
extensions.
#127112 : Tools -> 'Gamma Adjustment...' fails
silently when kgamma is not installed.
#136258 : User comments in the EXIF/IPTC-data
aren't carried over to the "Comments".
#136932 : Access to a specific jpg photo crashed
digiKam.
#135442 : Add 'rename' entry to album RMB menu.
#138540 : Pictures files are updated (but not
modified) when setting new metadatas albeit they
are unset.
#136256 : Tags are not filled from the
IPTC-keywords.
#136062 : Charset problem saving EXIF comments
(JPEG files).
#133567 : Crash when testing tags in digikam image
editor (saveWithExiv2).
#138300 : Crash on startup with one user's
collection.
#138747 : Crash on Add Camera.
#138715 : Crash when quickly switching to
previous/next image.
#138616 : Cannot compile: cannot verify exiv2
version.
#134999 : Crash in exiv2 when searching for new
images.
#136771 : Image editor crashes when using undo.
0.9.0-RC2 RELEASE
======================================
New Features:
General : Exiv2 depency fixed to 0.12
release.
General : Fix broken compilation using
"./configure -enable-final" option.
ImageEditor : Fixed and improved Color
Management View workflow.
Bugs Fix:
#115125 : White Balance tool: remaining endianess
issue on PowerPC.
#137495 : showfoto crashes when doing any
modification to a loaded directory.
#137845 : Album Header cut off (squeezed) when
entering two or more lines in Album comment.
#137886 : When a tag is moved in the left panel
it's position is not updated in the right panel.
#135834 : Lowercasing camera filenames only works
for first imported file.
#134391 : digiKam camera gui dialog crashes if
there is a filename without
extension.
#131947 : digiKam complains about invalid ICC
profiles path.
#130176 : Typos in digiKam.po and one plugin.
#138252 : Display is not updates when switching
color managed view on/off.
#138253 : Keyboard shortcut for turning color
managed display on/off.
0.9.0-RC1 RELEASE
======================================
New Features:
General: internal dcraw implementation updated to
version 8.41.
Bugs Fix:
#103255 : Add (not edit) EXIF headers like date,
comment etc.
#91812 : Viewer/editor for IPTC meta data.
#136138 : set as album thumbnail doesn't change
the icon immediately.
#135851 : Wish to view IPTC in different order.
#136162 : ISO Slider label is incorrectly labeled
as "sensibility", should be sensitivity.
#133026 : Crashes on systems using hyperthreading.
#136260 : Awkward management of metadata and
digikam-tags and comments.
#36769 : digiKam crashes when resetting Album icon
(with no album selected).
#136749 : Tags are not kept with images when album
is moved in album hierarchy.
#123623 : digiKam freezes or is very slow.
#96993 : Ability to view next next image in
folder in showfoto.
#136643 : showfoto can open CRW, but not shown in
file dialogue.
#137063 : Keyboard shortcut for 'paste' action not
working.
#137461 : Typo croping must be cropping.
#137282 : Comments are lost when copying or moving
a picture to another album.
#132805 : Crash when assinging keywords.
#137204 : Crash when applying IPTC data.
#135407 : Reproducible crash selecting photos from
collection.
#136086 : Crash when saving any type of files.
#137612 : Showfoto doesn't refresh the photo
preview when deleting a picture.
0.9.0-BETA3 RELEASE
======================================
New Features:
Setup : New dcraw options set compatible
with dcraw release >= 8.16.
General : Automatic image Tags creation/set
using IPTC Keywords contents.
General : Removing external dcraw depency.
Now digiKam include a full supported version of
dcraw program in core.
CameraGUI : New advanced config dialog to set
date/time format used to rename camera pictures
file name during download.
Bugs Fix:
#134013 : Tag menu extremly slow.
#122653 : File-dialogue claims that pictures are
not on the local-storage, yet they are.
#134091 : dcraw -n option not valid for version >
8.15.
#134224 : prefix for image filename in camera
dialog not working
#133359 : Google maps support to show satellite
images of the photos.
#131347 : Comments modified in digiKam Image
Editor are not saved.
#134351 : Error while make install.
#132841 : Tag filtering works only a the second
click on the tag filter list.
#133359 : Google maps support to show satellite
images of the photos.
#134924 : Patch to allow compile with
LDFLAGS="-Wl, --as-needed"
#134841 : weird behaviour of identity setup.
#131382 : All thumbnails of album destroyed when
using Tag Filters.
#134869 : High CPU usage while displaying ICC
Profile.
#134761 : a rotated RAW image get saved straight
with an inconsistent Exif orientation.
#135236 : Right-click menu rename function cuts to
the first period (not the extention one).
#135307 : After deleting a file, user comments
entered for pictures apply to the wrong picture.
#135145 : Raw image converter fails on my raw
files (cr2, crw, dng).
#125727 : digiKam open with of raw file only shows
application for octet-stream.
#135430 : Typo automaticly should be automatically
in raw image converter.
#135060 : Folders without pictures in it cannot be
assigned icons
0.9.0-BETA2 RELEASE
======================================
After a period of hard and intensive work, the
digiKam community brings to you all the new
digiKam 0.9.0-beta2 releases with some new
features, and others have been improved:
- New option to start image sequence number index
with a custom value.
- New option to add camera name to target download
file name.
- New option to create download folder per file
format (e.g. JPG and CR2)
- New option to set date format of auto-created
albums.
- New option to process a batch creation of all
albums items thumbnails.
- New option to set image as tag thumbnail on Tag
Filters View using D&D.
- New option to set a matching condition to use
between tags in Tag Filters View (OR or AND
condition).
- New color scheme theme 'Digikasa' from Sergio Di
Rio Mare
And 50 bugs have been fixed since the 0.9.0-beta1
release:
- 121691 : Problems with Downloading images from
Camera.
- 131034 : Display a mini-view of the photo
currently transferred, i.e. better
visual feedback.
- 131603 : Orientation of RAW-images (especially
Canons *.cr2)
- 131532 : Minolta exception code can break EXIF
rotation
- 131550 : digikam/showfoto can't show jpeg image
under PowerPC
- 131549 : endianess problem under Linux-PowerPC
(with png images at least)
If you want to know more about all the changes,
have a look at the NEWS file:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/NEWS?rev=582129&view=markup
If you are interested in some of our plans for the
future and in what is still missing for the final
0.9 release, have a look at the TODO file:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/TODO?rev=579142&view=markup
0.9.0-BETA1 RELEASE
======================================
The 0.9 series has been under heavy development
since November and this beta release offers you
the opportunity to test and enjoy a variety of new
features, additions and improvements.
A choice from the list of new features:
* the sidebar is now used to display image file
properties, metadata,
comments, tags and color information
* full support for 16bit images in the image
editor, all image plugins have
been ported to make use of the new 16 bit
infrastructure.
* full support for color management, reading and
storing color profiles.
* greatly improved support for image metadata such
as EXIF and IPTC (based on libexiv2).
* the main view provides a fast preview mode most
useful for RAW images
* more than 100 bug fixes!!!
A comprehensive list of new features and fixed
bugs can be found in the NEWS file:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/NEWS?rev=564673&view=markup
If you are interested in some of our plans for the
future and in what is still missing for the final
0.9 release, have a look at the TODO file:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/TODO?rev=564483&view=markup
Digikam Movie Tour:
There are four demonstration videos (Flash format)
available highlighting some of the new features.
How to import a RAW file in 16 bits color depth
into digiKam image editor using Color Management:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/124
On the usage of the camera interface and how to
add IPTC information to an image file:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/125
On the new fast RAW file preview mode, the use of
color profiles, image plugins supporting 16 bit
and user interface improvements for all image
plugins:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/126
How to use the black and white converter and the
add border image plugin,
again demonstrating user interface improvements
and full 16 bit support:
http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/127
How to help us:
This release is a beta release, which means that
we ask users to test this version of digiKam and
report bugs.
If you have found a bug, please report it to the
bug tracking system at bugs.kde.org. In a first
step, confirm that there is not already a bug
report for your problem.
0.8.2 RELEASE
======================================
Bugs fixed since digikam 0.8.2-rc1:
- Unsupported initialization of CameraList object
(#129610)
- digikam "Mount and Download" Problems (#124952)
- Thumbnail generation fails with raw images
(#128283)
- Camera gui always puts *.JPG and *.NEF in the
configure - digikam dialog/File Mime Types/ Image
Files (#127697)
- Crash when moving an album to another album
(#128069)
- Autoration of photos may confuse user because of
changes made he is not aware of (#126335)
- Communication between digikam and its kioslaves
broken if size_t != off_t (#127634)
- Mimimize button missing on "Compaq Flash Reader"
camera window (#116485)
- mimelnk/x-image-raw.desktop conflicts with
kdegraphics-3.5.x (#121242)
0.8.2-RC1 RELEASE
======================================
New feature:
- add missing Rating info in album item file tip
and image properties dialog
Bugs fixed:
- fix JFIF comments section encoding extraction to
respect UTF8 (#120241)
- fix x-raw.desktop: removed tiff extention
0.8.2-BETA1 RELEASE
======================================
This version is mostly a bugfixes.
New features:
o display JPEG that use CMYK color space
o Rating image using keyboard shortcuts
CTRL+0/1/2/3/4/5 from
main interface (#123646)
o Buttons to set the album date to oldest,
yougest of the
images in the album (#120963)
Bugs fixed:
o #123742: preview-pictures seem to be
handled differently by
Digikam and Konqueror
o #121905: albums not displayed corectly
and digikam crashes
with St9bad_alloc
o #120053: digikam: whatthis info not
closed when albumview is
scrolled up or down with cursur keys
o #120052: digikam: redraw problem with
whatthis info of an
image show and starts scrolling with the
mouse
o #119946: thumbnails not correctly
rotated according to exif
information
o #116248: Ask user which plugins should
be enabled on first
startup (all plugins are enabled by
default first startup)
o #115460: opening and closing right pane
with tag filter also
changes width of left pane and vv
o #121646: Digikam on PPC has problem
identifying JPEG and tries
to use dcraw with them
o #120479: Search problem for not tagged
or commented images
#120775: Search doesn't find pictures
without rating
0.8.1 RELEASE
======================================
This version brings RAW files format support, new
icons, image rating, printing enhancements and in
the meanwhile we also fixed some bugs. The
noteworthy features in this release:
- You are now able to rate your images from 1
start to 5 stars. In the search
part of digiKam, you can search for images with a
certain rating.
- A new theme has been added, the 'Dessert' theme.
- 8 bits RAW files support has been added, you can
now view those images in the image editor. In
digiKam version 0.9.0 there will be 16 bits RAW
files support.
- copy & paste support has been added, you can
copy between albums and from
konqueror to digiKam.
- dcop functions have been added to open the
camera dialog at a certain path
or start the autodetect function similar to the
command line option
- a command line option has been added to open the
camera dialog at a certain
path. This feature and the previous are
preparations for full media kio
support.
- showfoto can now open a directory with images in
there
- automatically adjust orientation of printing
depending on the image
- new icons!
- kipi plugins now work on search or date folders
Some of the bugs we squashed since 0.8.0:
- the configure option --enable-nfs-hack did not
work, now it does work again.
- the configure option --enable-final did not
work, now it does work again.
- showfoto's open dialog now opens in the location
you used the last time.
- a bunch of memory leaks are now fixed.
- printing did not really work. Now it does work
again.
0.8.0 RELEASE FINAL
======================================
Any bugfix have been fixed. Hanbooks package
creation.
0.8.0 RELEASE CANDIDATE:
======================================
The digiKam team is proud to provide a release
candidate of digiKam 0.8. This
release follows six weeks after beta 2 and we now
ask everyone to test this
version.
Please take a moment to test this version and
report all your problems!
In comparisation to beta 2, we have fixed the
following bugs:
- More RAW file formats supported by default
- Slow showing of thumbnails (bug 112467)
- After rotating an image, the first image in the
folder get's the keyboard
focus (bug 112971, 105663)
- Can not change the tag icon with the contextual
menu "Edit Tag
Properties..." after setting a photo as tag
thumbnail. (bug 113808)
- Save/restore quick search dialog size (bug
113806)
- When a camera is added to the toolbar, the icon
is not displayed after
DigiKam restart (bug 113804).
- Image permissions are restricted after saving
(bug 113914)
- Thumbbar fullscreen mode configuration problem
(bug 113919)
- Show the week number in the month widget
- After modifying the DigiKam main toolbar, the
KIPI menus have disappeared
(bug 114507)
- Search dialog: images are not rotated correctly
(bug 114848)
You can read more about the 0.8 series in the
release announcement of beta 1,
available at our new website (www.digikam.org)
0.8.0 BETA2:
======================================
In comparisation to beta 1, we have fixed the
following bugs:
- Crash on rogue jpeg file (bug 112801)
- Disable "remove tags" menu item when there are
no common tags (111798)
- Added some more extensions we support
- A protocol error prevented correct drap-and-drop
to other applications
- When a camera was added to the toolbar, the icon
wasn't displayed after
program restart
- A caching problem was visible when an image was
saved with "Save As" with a
filename that already existed in the album.
- Fixed a crash when adding items to showfoto's
toolbar
- Fixed some problems in showfoto with 'Save As'
- Fixed some thumbnail caching problems in
ShowFoto (111873)
- Some more space was created to select images,
which is helpfull when KDE is
configured to single click is open (11695)
- Showfoto's handbook was not showing properly
(99497)
- Size of the search window is now saved
- Better error handling when there is a permission
problem when moving images
- A progress dialog was blocking an error dialog
in some cases.
- Some optimalisation was done in the comments /
tag editor.
- New color gradient for the histogram.
- Fixed a problem where it was not possible to
delete folders with subfolders.
- Fixed bug so window dimensions where not saved
correctly sometimes.
- Improvement to the thumbbar of showfoto to keep
the next thumb visible.
- red eye correction configuration was not saved
0.8.0 BETA1 :
======================================
The noteworthy features in 0.8.0-beta1 release:
* NEW USER INTERFACE: Albums and Tags have been
separated out into different views and these
views are collapsible.
* PHOTO DATES AND COMMENTS: Photos are now scanned
for their metadata which is then stored in the
database. The EXIF timestamp (if available) is
used for sorting and searching.
* DATE BASED VIRTUAL FOLDERS: Each corresponding
to the month in which the pictures were taken.
Its also possible to filter this view to show
photos from single or multiple day(s) and week(s)
* SEARCHING: Two interfaces have been implemented
for searching on photos:
- QUICK SEARCH: a keyword based search which
also allows date based lookups
- ADVANCED SEARCH: build rules and groups of
rules to do very precise searches.
- LIVE FEEDBACK: Both searches show instant
results based on the current search criteria
* SEARCH BASED VIRTUAL FOLDERS: The searches can
be saved as virtual folders and its possible to
edit the search criterion later.
* TAG FILTERING: A new view has been added to the
right side which allows quick drag and drop tag
assignments and also filtering of photos in the
current view. This view is again collapsible
* ALBUM LOCATION INDICATOR: When photos are shown
from a virtual folder (tag, date or search), the
photos are grouped together based on album
locations.
* MEMORY OPTIMIZATION: Thumbnails are now loaded
on demand and only a fixed cache of thumbnails
is kept in memory * NEW THEMES: Dark, Sandy and
Orange Crush
* BACKEND CHANGES:
- Database upgraded to sqlite3
- New kioslaves for handling date, search, tag,
album listing
* SHOWFOTO : new slide show tool
* IMAGE PLUGIN CHANGES :
- Plugin dialogs have been revamped for better
usability and easier comparison of filter
effects.
- Plugin computations are now threaded
- Plugin preview is now resizable.
- BigEndian fixes.
* CORE IMAGE PLUGIN FEATURES :
- Aspect Ratio Crop : new photograph composition
guide tool based on Fibonacci series (golden
mean).
- New Color AutoCorrection tool with preview
(Normalize, Autolevels, Equalize, and Stretch
Contrast).
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