digiKam 0.10.0-beta3 (KDE4)

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 07:53:43 CEST 2008


Name: digiKam
Version: 0.10.0-beta3 (KDE4)
Type: KDE Graphic Tool
Depend: KDE 4.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://www.digikam.org
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=16082

Description:
 NOTE: This entry is relevant of current
development version for KDE4 (unstable). 

After one year of developement, 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 care, it's a BETA code with many of new
bugs not yet fixed... To resume :

[b]"DO NOT USE YET IN PRODUCTION"[/b]

... for production use KDE3 branch, which still
mantained. digiKam 0.9.4 have been released in
august 2008. For more informations, please consult
this page:
[url]http://kde-apps.org/content/edit.php?content=9957[/url]

To compile this KDE4 version, you need
[b]libkexiv2[/b], [b]libkdcraw[/b], and
[b]libkipi[/b] for KDE4. These libraries are now
included in KDE core. You need last libkdcraw and
libkexiv2 from svn trunk to compile digiKam (will
be released with KDE 4.2). To extract libraries
source code from svn, look at bottom of this page
for details:

http://www.digikam.org/drupal/download?q=download/svn

For others depencies, consult 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 has been redesigned for
the new KDE4 series.
All screenshots have been updated and a lots of
video demos have been
added:

[url]http://www.digikam.org/drupal/tour[/url]
[url]http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/323[/url]

NOTE:  

- Please, use the digiKam mailing-list for all
comments: 

[b]digikam-users at kde dot org[/b]
[b]digikam-devel at kde dot org[/b]

- Please, use KDE Bug Tracking System for Wishes,
and Bugs report:
[url]http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=digikam[/url]
[url]http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=digikamimageplugins[/url]
[url]http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=showfoto[/url]
[url]http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=kipiplugins[/url]

You can contact developers on Freenode IRC
channels:

[b]#digikam[/b]
[b]#kde-imaging[/b]

To help digiKam project, you can [u]donate money
to developpers[/u]. Take a look at this page for
details:

[url]http://www.digikam.org/donation[/url]

Changelog:
 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        : New database schema to host more
photo and collection informations.
General        : Database interface fully
re-written using Qt4 SQL plugin.
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.
General        : New option in Help menu to list
all main components/libraries used by digiKam.
General        : libkdcraw dependency updated to
0.3.0.
General        : Raw metadata can be edited,
changed, added to TIFF/EP like RAW file formats
(require Exiv2 >= 0.18).
                 Currently DNG, NEF, and PEF raw
files are supported. More will be added in the
future.

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 wavelet 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
ImageEditor : All image plugin tool settings
provide default buttons to reset values.
ImageEditor : New Raw import tool to handle Raw
pictures with customized decoding settings.
ImageEditor : All image plugin dialogs are
removed. All tools are embedded in editor window.

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
045 ==> 166472 : Thumbnail bar gone in image
editor when switching back from fullscreen.
046 ==> 166663 : Tags not showing pictures without
"Include Tag Subtree".
047 ==> 166616 : Filmstrip mode in View.
048 ==> 165885 : Thumbnails and images are NOT
displayed in the main view center pane.
049 ==> 167139 : Crash if Exif.GPSInfo.GPSAltitude
is empty.
050 ==> 167168 : Timeline view shows redundant
extra sections.
051 ==> 166440 : Removing images from Light Table
is not working properly.
052 ==> 166484 : digiKam crashes when changing
some settings and using "find similar" after the
changes made.
053 ==> 167124 : Timeline view not updated when
changing selected time range.
054 ==> 166564 : Display of *already* *created*
thumbnails is slow.
055 ==> 166483 : Error in "not enough disk space"
error message.
056 ==> 167379 : Image selection for export
plugin.
057 ==> 166622 : Confusing Add Images use.
058 ==> 166576 : digiKam quits when running
"Rebuild all Thumbnail Images" twice.
059 ==> 167562 : Image Editor Shortcut Keys under
Edit redo/undo are missing in GUI.
060 ==> 167561 : Crash when moving albums.
061 ==> 167529 : Image Editor not working
correctly after setting "use horizontal thumbbar"
option.
062 ==> 167621 : digiKam crashes when trying to
remove a tag with the context menu.
063 ==> 165348 : Problems when trying to import
KDE3 data.
064 ==> 166424 : Crash when editing Caption with
digiKam4 SVN.
065 ==> 166310 : Preview not working in image
effect dialogs.
066 ==> 167571 : Unnatural order when removing
images from light table.
067 ==> 167139 : Crash if Exif.GPSInfo.GPSAltitude
is empty.
068 ==> 167778 : Assigning ratings in image editor
via shortcuts or toolbar not working.
069 ==> 168567 : Unable to edit or remove iptc and
xmp info.
070 ==> 168846 : crash after playing with tags
(seems to be rather a crash in Qt or kdelibs).
071 ==> 166671 : Image filter dialog buttons are
much too big.
072 ==> 134486 : Keywords are not written to raw
files even though they do embed iptc/exif.
073 ==> 168839 : Digikam crashed after tagging.
074 ==> 167085 : Color selection in sketch search
tool looks plain black.
075 ==> 168852 : Crash on profile application.
076 ==> 167867 : Album view is reset by changing
settings.
077 ==> 168461 : Info in Properties panel not
updated after moving to other image.
078 ==> 169704 : Crash during RAW import.
079 ==> 166437 : Deleting images in Image Editor
not working properly.
080 ==> 169814 : Compilation error: no exp2().
081 ==> 165345 : Selecting images from bottom
right to top left does not work.
082 ==> 170693 : Enable geotagging of Olympus orf
images.                     
083 ==> 170711 : Write single Keywords instead of
Hirachy into IPTC.          
084 ==> 168569 : New Album Folders are not
detected in displayed in GUI until restart.
085 ==> 165337 : Text overlapping box on welcome
page.                                
086 ==> 171310 : No preview photos shown clicking
on imported albums.                 
087 ==> 171778 : digiKam does not load photos in
its database.                        
088 ==> 171736 : Make transferring of metadata
between machines easier.               
089 ==> 170929 : Compilation of SVN version fails
with gcc 4.3.2 unless debug option is activated.
090 ==> 171989 : Can't set gps photo location on
.nef images.                                     
091 ==> 172018 : Initial cursor in the "sharpen"
dialog is on the "cancel" button.                
092 ==> 172033 : Unable to draw rectangle from
right to left.


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