kipi-plugins 0.2.0-rc1 release for KDE4...

[Gilles Caulier]

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

The Kipi development team is happy to release the first release
candidate of plugins for digiKam. The tarball can be downloaded from
SourceForge at this url:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149779&package_id=165761

To compile this KDE4 version, you need libkexiv2, libkdcraw, and
libkipi for KDE4. These libraries are now included in KDE core with
kdegraphic component.

2 remote web service tools are available:

- FbExport to export images to FaceBook.
- Smug to import and export images to SmugMug.

Another tool can be used to batch convert RAW camera images to Adobe
DNG container (see this Wikipedia entry for details). To be able to
compile this plugin, you need last libkdcraw from svn trunk (will be
released with KDE 4.2). To extract libraries source code from svn,
look at this page for details.

And another one, can batch remove red eyes automatically. it's based
on OpenCV library.

For others depencies, consult the README file. There are also optional
depencies to enable some plugins as libxml2 for HTLMExport or OpenGL
for SlideShow tool.

Kipi-plugins is compilable under Windows using MinGW and Microsoft
Visual C++. Precompiled packages are available with KDE-Windows
installer. See http://windows.kde.org/ for details.

NEW FEATURES:

General                 : Port to CMake/KDE4/QT4.
General                 : all plugins can be compiled natively under
Microsoft Windows.
General        : Plugins now use metadata settings shared with kipi
host application.
 JPEGLossLess     : XMP metadata support.
RAWConverter      : XMP metadata support.
 TimeAdjust           : XMP metadata support.
MetadataEdit        : XMP metadata support with EXIF, IPTC, and
Comments editor to sync XMP tags.
MetadataEdit        : IPTC Editor dialog is more compliant with
IPTC.org recommendations.
 MetadataEdit        : IPTC Editor add the capability to set multiple
values for a tag.
SendImages         : Complete re-write of emailing tool.
GPSSync             : New tool to edit GPS track list using googlemaps.
 RAWConverter      : Raw files are decoded in 16 bits color depth
using same auto-gamma and auto-white methods provided by dcraw with 8
bits color depth RAW image decoding.
 SlideShow            : Now filenames, captions and progress
indicators can have transparent backgrounds with OpenGL SlideShow as
well.
 SlideShow            : Added thumbnails into image list.
SlideShow            : Now you can play your favourite music during slideshow.
DNGConverter      : New plugin to convert RAW camera image to Digital
NeGative (DNG)
 RemoveRedEyes  : New plugin to remove red eyes in batch. Tool is
based on OpenCV library.
Calendar              : Ported to QT4/KDE4.
Calendar              : Support RAW images.
AcquireImages     : Under Windows, TWAIN interface is used to scan
image using flat scanner.
 SlideShow           : Normal effects are back.
SlideShow           : New effect "Cubism".
SlideShow           : Added support for RAW images.
DNGConverter     : plugin is now available as a stand alone application.
 SlideShow           : New effect "Mosaic"
PrintWizard         : Ported to QT4/KDE4
PrintWizard         : Added a new option to skip cropping, the image
is scaled automatically.
RemoveRedEyes : Added an option to preview the correction of the
currently selected image.
FbExport             : New plugin to export images to a remote
Facebook web service (http://www.facebook.com).
FlickrExport         : Add support of Photosets.
Smug                   : New plugin to export images to a remote
SmugMug web service (http://www.smugmug.com).
Smug                   : Add support for Album Templates.
Smug                   : Import (download) of images from SmugMug web service.

BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA (alias B.K.O | http://bugs.kde.org):

001 ==> 135451 : GPSSync            : Improve the gui of the gpssync plugin.
002 ==> 135386 : GPSSync            : Show track on the google map.
003 ==> 149497 : GPSSync            : Geolocalization kipi plugin does
not work with non-jpeg file types.
004 ==> 145746 : GPSSync            : Do not recreate thumbs when
geolocalizing images.
005 ==> 134299 : SimpleViewer   : Read orientation of image from EXIF.
006 ==> 158792 : GPSsync             : Plugin do not working with Canon RAW CR2.
007 ==> 165078 : GPSSync            : GPS correlator does not show thumbnails.
008 ==> 165278 : GPSSync            : Geotagging dialog doesn't
display all thumbnails.
009 ==> 150076 : SlideShow          : Playing music during a slideshow
010 ==> 172283 : SlideShow          : SlideShow crashes host application
011 ==> 172337 : SlideShow          : Slideshow enhancements by
ken-burns effects.
012 ==> 173276 : SlideShow          : digikam crashs after closing
013 ==> 172910 : GalleryExport      : Gallery crash (letting crash
digiKam) with valid data and url.
014 ==> 161855 : GalleryExport      : Remote Gallery Sync loses password.
015 ==> 154752 : GalleryExport      : Export to Gallery2 seems to
fail, but in fact works.
016 ==> 157285 : SlideShow          : digiKam advanced slideshow not
working with Canon RAWs.
017 ==> 175316 : GPSSync            : digiKam crashes when trying to
enter gps data.
018 ==> 169637 : MetadataEdit : EXIF Data Editing Error.
019 ==> 174954 : HTMLExport : Support for remote urls.
020 ==> 176640 : MetadataEdit : Wrong reference to website.
021 ==> 176749 : TimeAdjust : Incorrect time/date setting with digiKam.
022 ==> 165370 : GPSSync : crash when saving geocoordinates.
023 ==> 165486 : GPSSync : Next and Previous photo button for editing
geolocalization coordinates.
024 ==> 175296 : GPSSync : Geolocalization a handy gui to manage all
about geotagging.
025 ==> 152520 : MetadataEdit : Unified entry of metadata.
026 ==> 135320 : Calendar : Calendar year do not match locale.
027 ==> 116970 : Calendar : New calendar generator plugin features.
028 ==> 177999 : General : Kipi-plugins Shortcuts are not listed in
the shortcuts editor from Kipi host application.
029 ==> 160236 : JPEGLossLess : Image Magick convert operations return
with errors.
030 ==> 144183 : RawConverter : Path in RAW-converter broken with the letter "ß"
031 ==> 178495 : MetadataEdit : Problem with metadata editor.
032 ==> 175219 : PicasaWebExport : Album creating wrong date in picasaweb.
033 ==> 175222 : PicasaWebExport : Unable to create non listed album.
034 ==> 166672 : FbExport : Export to Facebook.
035 ==> 129623 : FlickrExport : Option to upload to specific photoset.
036 ==> 161775 : FlickrExport : Photoset support.
037 ==> 179439 : JPEGLossLess       : Rotation or flip do not update
internal thumbnail.
038 ==> 180245 : TimeAdjust         : Timeadjust is not building on
mac os x leopard.
039 ==> 180656 : PicasaWebExport    : Wrong file selection filter in
export picasaweb.

For more informations, please consult www.digikam.org and
kipi-plugins.org web sites.

Best Regards

Gilles Caulier
digiKam team
http://www.digikam.org