digiKam 0.9.1-beta1 release

[Gerhard Kulzer]

The digiKam team approaches another release step with 0.9.1-beta1 (including
digikamimageplugins-0.9.1-beta1 and libkexiv2-0.1.0 as separate packages,
libkexiv2 is required). The files are online at SF
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641

This is a bug-fix and useability release with several new features for viewing
and slideshows that even display RAW files. Plans are to put -rc1 in a week
and -final in two weeks time online.

Enjoy !! :-)

Gerhard

*** 0.9.0-beta1 *******************************************************
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 fast.

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.
- all plugins : capability to remember settings between plugin sessions to
store configuration in a settings file.

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 :

242 ==> 115157 : Usability: Image comments/tags dialog: hard to find/see all
already selected tags (and to 'de'select them).
243 ==> 132309 : Wish: enhance video support in digiKam.
244 ==> 115153 : Assigns tags not only to selected images with drag and drop.
245 ==> 131743 : Comments and tag edit widgets should retain focus when
changing image.
246 ==> 140412 : Comments/Tags sidebar steels focus.
247 ==> 137491 : Editor image cache not flush when an image is modified
outside digiKam.
248 ==> 138949 : Save/overwrite fails: wrong dialog.
249 ==> 139197 : Crash during import of raw imagefiles (DNG).
250 ==> 139313 : UTF-8 image comments are mangled when input from image
editor.
251 ==> 136903 : If partition gets full during camera/card copy there is no
warning and empty files are created.
252 ==> 133955 : Rating search: less, equal, and larger comparison.
253 ==> 139547 : Tag hierarchy automatic fill.
254 ==> 138816 : gpcamera.cpp compile failure CameraList camList.
255 ==> 93542  : Improvements to digiKam print interface.
256 ==> 139658 : Tiff generated by photoshop is either ignored by digiKam
image browser, or kills digiKam when regenerating the database.
257 ==> 102032 : Wish: rating system for photos, show/hide/sort by rating.
258 ==> 111446 : Bad behaviour when out of disk space.
259 ==> 133516 : Tags set in Comments/Tags end up on the wrong picture.
260 ==> 140136 : Aspect ratio crop and selection widget improvements.
261 ==> 131600 : Set tag for multiple selection of images.
262 ==> 137545 : Helper lines / cross wanted.
263 ==> 131170 : Add grid/auxiliary lines for perspective correction tool.
264 ==> 138158 : Allow to edit multiple image tags/comments at same time.
265 ==> 140234 : Thumbnail click default action.
266 ==> 135141 : Border size in pixel.
267 ==> 137696 : Border extent should not follow image aspect ratio.
268 ==> 138444 : More clear/consistent color management terminology.
269 ==> 140176 : Showfoto crashes when selecting a filter.
270 ==> 130237 : Typos in digiKam plugin files.
271 ==> 138925 : External modules config dialog lacks a select all button.
272 ==> 140038 : digiKam Image Editor crash on right click after changing
toolbar.
273 ==> 139766 : Crash when displaying EXIF metadata with Unicode comment
274 ==> 130017 : Wish: batch operation to save existing comments in the files.
275 ==> 140320 : View menu should better fit after Edit.
276 ==> 127617 : "Toggle Fullscreen" should be located in "View" menu instead
                 of "Settings" menu.
277 ==> 139264 : digiKam sorts pictures with wrong exif tag.
278 ==> 140417 : Crash digiKam when delete image.
279 ==> 110514 : Enhanced selection, refactored histogram.
280 ==> 140933 : Typo: Album Library Path.
281 ==> 141190 : digikam crash when invalid ICM file at color profile
directory
                 and you enter into PREFERENCES->COLOR SPACE PROFILES.
282 ==> 123649 : JPEG/PNG quality settings at the "save" dialog.
283 ==> 116518 : Use KIPI plugin for displaying slideshows.
284 ==> 140304 : Start slideshow from the current image.
285 ==> 140303 : slideshow must be relocated to View menu from tools menu.
286 ==> 137503 : Tags are not written to image file automatically.
287 ==> 136254 : Editing tags does not change IPTC-keywords.
288 ==> 135655 : Proper full screen mode (no menu, toolbar, statusbar,
sidebars)
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[Gilles Caulier-2]

Release announces on kde-apps.org done :

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9957
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=16082

Gilles



Le lundi 12 février 2007 13:46, Gerhard Kulzer a écrit :

> 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 fast.
>
> 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.
> - all plugins : capability to remember settings between plugin sessions to
> store configuration in a settings file.
>
> 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 :
>
> 242 ==> 115157 : Usability: Image comments/tags dialog: hard to find/see
> all already selected tags (and to 'de'select them).
> 243 ==> 132309 : Wish: enhance video support in digiKam.
> 244 ==> 115153 : Assigns tags not only to selected images with drag and
> drop. 245 ==> 131743 : Comments and tag edit widgets should retain focus
> when changing image.
> 246 ==> 140412 : Comments/Tags sidebar steels focus.
> 247 ==> 137491 : Editor image cache not flush when an image is modified
> outside digiKam.
> 248 ==> 138949 : Save/overwrite fails: wrong dialog.
> 249 ==> 139197 : Crash during import of raw imagefiles (DNG).
> 250 ==> 139313 : UTF-8 image comments are mangled when input from image
> editor.
> 251 ==> 136903 : If partition gets full during camera/card copy there is no
> warning and empty files are created.
> 252 ==> 133955 : Rating search: less, equal, and larger comparison.
> 253 ==> 139547 : Tag hierarchy automatic fill.
> 254 ==> 138816 : gpcamera.cpp compile failure CameraList camList.
> 255 ==> 93542  : Improvements to digiKam print interface.
> 256 ==> 139658 : Tiff generated by photoshop is either ignored by digiKam
> image browser, or kills digiKam when regenerating the database.
> 257 ==> 102032 : Wish: rating system for photos, show/hide/sort by rating.
> 258 ==> 111446 : Bad behaviour when out of disk space.
> 259 ==> 133516 : Tags set in Comments/Tags end up on the wrong picture.
> 260 ==> 140136 : Aspect ratio crop and selection widget improvements.
> 261 ==> 131600 : Set tag for multiple selection of images.
> 262 ==> 137545 : Helper lines / cross wanted.
> 263 ==> 131170 : Add grid/auxiliary lines for perspective correction tool.
> 264 ==> 138158 : Allow to edit multiple image tags/comments at same time.
> 265 ==> 140234 : Thumbnail click default action.
> 266 ==> 135141 : Border size in pixel.
> 267 ==> 137696 : Border extent should not follow image aspect ratio.
> 268 ==> 138444 : More clear/consistent color management terminology.
> 269 ==> 140176 : Showfoto crashes when selecting a filter.
> 270 ==> 130237 : Typos in digiKam plugin files.
> 271 ==> 138925 : External modules config dialog lacks a select all button.
> 272 ==> 140038 : digiKam Image Editor crash on right click after changing
> toolbar.
> 273 ==> 139766 : Crash when displaying EXIF metadata with Unicode comment
> 274 ==> 130017 : Wish: batch operation to save existing comments in the
> files. 275 ==> 140320 : View menu should better fit after Edit.
> 276 ==> 127617 : "Toggle Fullscreen" should be located in "View" menu
> instead of "Settings" menu.
> 277 ==> 139264 : digiKam sorts pictures with wrong exif tag.
> 278 ==> 140417 : Crash digiKam when delete image.
> 279 ==> 110514 : Enhanced selection, refactored histogram.
> 280 ==> 140933 : Typo: Album Library Path.
> 281 ==> 141190 : digikam crash when invalid ICM file at color profile
> directory
>                  and you enter into PREFERENCES->COLOR SPACE PROFILES.
> 282 ==> 123649 : JPEG/PNG quality settings at the "save" dialog.
> 283 ==> 116518 : Use KIPI plugin for displaying slideshows.
> 284 ==> 140304 : Start slideshow from the current image.
> 285 ==> 140303 : slideshow must be relocated to View menu from tools menu.
> 286 ==> 137503 : Tags are not written to image file automatically.
> 287 ==> 136254 : Editing tags does not change IPTC-keywords.
> 288 ==> 135655 : Proper full screen mode (no menu, toolbar, statusbar,
> sidebars)

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[Arnd Baecker]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:

> Enjoy !! :-)

Indeed ;-) !!

> - Tags View from Comments & Tags side bar support drag & drop.

I think there is a small bug left when doing the following
a) search for the contents of a tag. This leads to
  a reduced view ("Found Tags").
b) modify any of those found tags
c) move on to another image (and apply).
   The problem is that then the view changes back to "My Tags",
   even though the Search box still contains a text.

Ah, even simpler: do a) and change to another image
and it changes back to "My Tags".
I would expect it to stay with "Found Tags".

Is this the correct expectation?
If so, should I file a bug report (or is it very easy to fix? ;-)

> - New native SlideShow tool witch use the Image Preview feature.
> RAW files can be slided very fast.

Works very nice!

> 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.

This works really well when going back to previous images!!

One more wish to make it perfect: pre-load the next image into
the memory cache in the background.
Then the next image would be visible much faster.
(ok, re-found the discussion at:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132047
)

Best, Arnd
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Why did you release libkexiv2 on digikam site?
You could ask to me for that. Now we have two links.
I didn't expected it. If digikam team want to manintain that
there's no problem, but that should be clear.

Let me know,
        Angelo

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[Gilles Caulier-2]

Le lundi 12 février 2007 14:48, Angelo Naselli a écrit :
> Why did you release libkexiv2 on digikam site?
> You could ask to me for that. Now we have two links.
> I didn't expected it. If digikam team want to manintain that
> there's no problem, but that should be clear.
>

Right Angelo (:=)))... Gerhard ?

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[Gilles Caulier-2]

Le lundi 12 février 2007 14:48, Angelo Naselli a écrit :
> Why did you release libkexiv2 on digikam site?
> You could ask to me for that. Now we have two links.
> I didn't expected it. If digikam team want to manintain that
> there's no problem, but that should be clear.
>
> Let me know,
> Angelo

Angelo,

The link to libkexiv2 package on kde-apps.org go to kipi download page now.

Gerhard,

The libkexiv2 tarball on digikam SF download are must be removed...

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[Marcel Wiesweg]

> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> > Enjoy !! :-)
>
> Indeed ;-) !!
>
> > - Tags View from Comments & Tags side bar support drag & drop.
>
> I think there is a small bug left when doing the following
> a) search for the contents of a tag. This leads to
>   a reduced view ("Found Tags").
> b) modify any of those found tags
> c) move on to another image (and apply).
>    The problem is that then the view changes back to "My Tags",
>    even though the Search box still contains a text.
>
> Ah, even simpler: do a) and change to another image
> and it changes back to "My Tags".
> I would expect it to stay with "Found Tags".
>
> Is this the correct expectation?
> If so, should I file a bug report (or is it very easy to fix? ;-)

Thanks, fixed in SVN (temporary fix - name filtering and filtering for
assigned tags interfere)

>
> > - New native SlideShow tool witch use the Image Preview feature.
> > RAW files can be slided very fast.
>
> Works very nice!
>
> > 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.
>
> This works really well when going back to previous images!!
>
> One more wish to make it perfect: pre-load the next image into
> the memory cache in the background.
> Then the next image would be visible much faster.
> (ok, re-found the discussion at:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132047
> )

The slideshow already has the preview preloading, preloading for the preview
view did not make it into beta1 but expect it to be added (tonight).

Marcel

>
> Best, Arnd
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[Arnd Baecker]

One more question ...

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:

> AlbumGUI :

If I remember correctly, having the mouse over a picture
for a while used to lead to a transient window,
displaying some details.
This does not work for me anymore - does this apply to
anyone else as well?

Best, Arnd


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[Gilles Caulier-2]

Le lundi 12 février 2007 19:37, Arnd Baecker a écrit :

> One more question ...
>
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> > AlbumGUI :
>
> If I remember correctly, having the mouse over a picture
> for a while used to lead to a transient window,
> displaying some details.
> This does not work for me anymore - does this apply to
> anyone else as well?
>
> Best, Arnd

There is an option in setup to enable it and configure content

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Alle 13:46, lunedì 12 febbraio 2007, Gerhard Kulzer ha scritto:
> The digiKam team approaches another release step with 0.9.1-beta1 (including
> digikamimageplugins-0.9.1-beta1
Just a note, why the tarballs are 0.9.1-beta1a?

Angelo

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[Gilles Caulier-2]

Le lundi 12 février 2007 20:00, Angelo Naselli a écrit :
> Alle 13:46, lunedì 12 febbraio 2007, Gerhard Kulzer ha scritto:
> > The digiKam team approaches another release step with 0.9.1-beta1
> > (including digikamimageplugins-0.9.1-beta1
>
> Just a note, why the tarballs are 0.9.1-beta1a?

right ! why ? We have never used a supplemental index... Gerhard ?

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[Arnd Baecker]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Caulier Gilles wrote:
> Le lundi 12 février 2007 19:37, Arnd Baecker a écrit :
[...]

> > If I remember correctly, having the mouse over a picture
> > for a while used to lead to a transient window,
> > displaying some details.
> > This does not work for me anymore - does this apply to
> > anyone else as well?
> >
> > Best, Arnd
>
>
> There is an option in setup to enable it and configure content

Blush - sorry for bothering you with that
(it seems that running digikam on >=5 computers
with obviously differing settings is too confusing for me ;-).

Thanks a lot,

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I'm waiting for mandriva ok to release it for 2007.1, cooker by now.
Since the freeze time is about on 15th March, they'd like to be
sure 0.9.1 will be out before that date.

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[Gilles Caulier-2]

Le lundi 12 février 2007 20:00, Angelo Naselli a écrit :
> Alle 13:46, lunedì 12 febbraio 2007, Gerhard Kulzer ha scritto:
> > The digiKam team approaches another release step with 0.9.1-beta1
> > (including digikamimageplugins-0.9.1-beta1
>
> Just a note, why the tarballs are 0.9.1-beta1a?
>
> Angelo

fixed in SF.net

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[Gilles Caulier-2]

Le lundi 12 février 2007 14:48, Angelo Naselli a écrit :
> Why did you release libkexiv2 on digikam site?
> You could ask to me for that. Now we have two links.
> I didn't expected it. If digikam team want to manintain that
> there's no problem, but that should be clear.
>
> Let me know,
> Angelo

libkexiv2 tarball removed from digikam SF.net

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Alle 09:48, martedì 13 febbraio 2007, Caulier Gilles ha scritto:

> Le lundi 12 février 2007 20:00, Angelo Naselli a écrit :
> > Alle 13:46, lunedì 12 febbraio 2007, Gerhard Kulzer ha scritto:
> > > The digiKam team approaches another release step with 0.9.1-beta1
> > > (including digikamimageplugins-0.9.1-beta1
> >
> > Just a note, why the tarballs are 0.9.1-beta1a?
> >
> > Angelo
>
> fixed in SF.net

ARGHH! That's not good, a packager download a file from sf, if you

change it the package he released is different from the official one...

No pb, for me since I cannot release it for mandriva 2007.1, I'll probably
wait for your final. If you respect your deadline ;)

Cheers,
        Angelo

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