[KPhotoAlbum] 3.1.0-rc1 released

[Christoph Moseler]

Hi,

thanks for spending so much time in making this great piece of software. 
  I had a look at the port, it is more useable then KDE4 itself!

Back KDE3. I played around with the new version, but I couldn't find any 
serious bugs in it. The only one was a segfault with an empty database 
in ThumbnailView::ThumbnailBuilder::ThumbnailBuilder.
"if ( _images.count() > 0  )" should be added after _images = ...

Cheers,
Christoph

Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Hi all,
> thanks to tremendous work Jesper and others did, the KDE4 port of KPA is
> in a really good shape. Unfortunately, it will take some time for KDE4
> to be released, and even after that, some OS vendors might wait before
> they ship it to their users.
> 
> There are some interesting new features in current SVN, so we have
> decided it is worth making another KDE3 release.
> 
> Some interesting features:
> 
> * Option for dark background and non-1:1 aspect artion for even sexier
> look & feel of the thumbnail view
> * Proper encoding for funny filenames in the Exif DB
> * Support for users that can't use a middle mouse button
> * No need to select all images/one image before launching viewer
> * Switch from an outdated copy of dcraw to the libkdcraw, thus
> supporting more RAW image formats
> * Faster tagging -- it's possible to say "reuse tags from the last
> image" in the annotation dialog
> * More user-friendly delete dialog
> * Infobox improvements
> * Improved support for video playback
> * Improved Show EXIF info dialog
> * Various SQL backend improvements
> * Speed up checking for new images
> * Added Edit->Copy menu item for copying a list of selected files into
> clipboard
> * Hiding mouse cursor and disabling screensaver when in image view mode
> * Improved keyboard selection
> * IPTC support
> * Reworked metadata import/export
> 
> And plenty of other bugfixes, speedups and various improvements.
> 
> Source tarball is available [1].
> 
> Complete ChangeLog can be obtained from SVN.
> 
> We are especially interested in hearing whether the new metadata
> import/export works for you. To test it, play with Maintenance->Write
> metadata and Read metadata or simply feed KPA with some new pictures
> *after* you have configured it in the settings dialog.
> 
> [1] http://users.utu.fi/thsuut/kphotoalbum-3.1.0-rc1-noi18n.tar.bz2
> 
> 
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