digiKam 0.9.2-beta1 test release

[Gerhard Kulzer]

Dear all digiKam fans!
 With the 0.9.2-beta1 release we start into a new release cycle that is
planned to be culminating in a 0.9.2 final release mid June. This version is
already very stable, don't hesitate to use it for production. Beta1 and beta2
are rather used to improve usability.
In order to make digiKam 0.9.2 compile you need to compile and install
libkexiv2 and libkdcraw first.
Downloads: from http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/
or from https://sourceforge.net/projects/kipi and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/digikam

So what's new on digiKam planet?
 --------------------------------
 General :
 - DigikamImagePlugins have been merged into digiKam. It is easier to release
one package for all and nobody will search for promised features that are not
installed anymore. Image plugins translations are hosted to digikam.po file
instead a .po file for each tool.
 - New depency to libkdcraw shared library used to decode RAW file. This
library is shared between digiKam and kipi-plugins. The internal dcraw
version used is 8.60. digiKam now supports all recent digital camera RAW
files released at PMA 2007.
 - Make icon size in sidebars configurable to allow more entries to be
presented.
 - Reduce icon size of album view and make them configurable using a slider in
status bar.
 - Removing direct Exiv2 library depency. libkexiv2 interface is used
everywhere instead.
 - A new plugin 'Vivid', similar to Velvia type filters is part of Color
Effect plugin.
Album GUI :
 - Add Zoom/Scrooling functions with preview mode. Speed incease.
Image Editor :
 - Usability improvement : a new pan tool is available on the right bottom
corner of the status bar to navigate on large pictures.
 - Blowup and Resize tools have been merged.
 - Unsharp Mask, Refocus, and Sharpen tools have been merged to a new
Sharpness Editor.
 - Reorganize menu structure
 - persistant selection in all zoom mode.
 - Add new option to fit on current selection.
 - Red Eyes Correction tool have been completly re-written. There is a preview
and the capability to taint the eye pupil with a customized color. The new
eye pupil can be blurred to smooth the result.
 - Solarize plugin is now a "Color Effects" pack including Solarize, Velvia
(new plugin), Neon, and Edge effects.
 - Black & White converter now support a lots of B&W analog camera film types
(Agfa, Ilford, Kodak). A new 'strength' setting can simulate the amount of
Lens filters effect.
 - Update internal CImg library to 1.1.9. The Greycstoration algorithm used by
Restoration, Inpainting and Blowup plugins is faster and optimized.
Showfoto :
 - The thumbbar is now resizable. The thumbnails contents can be
redimensionned in live.
 - The thumbbar items can show a full configurable tool tip like digiKam album
icon tems tool tip.
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Gerhard,

On your digiKam tarball, please comment the line 27 of digikam/digikam/albumiconview.cpp to disable the access to Light Table tool witch is under development and is not yet complete. I would not see any bug report about this part on B.K.O (:=)))

Thanks in advance

Gilles

2007/5/5, Gerhard Kulzer <[hidden email]>:

Dear all digiKam fans!
With the 0.9.2-beta1 release we start into a new release cycle that is
planned to be culminating in a 0.9.2 final release mid June. This version is
already very stable, don't hesitate to use it for production. Beta1 and beta2
are rather used to improve usability.
In order to make digiKam 0.9.2 compile you need to compile and install
libkexiv2 and libkdcraw first.
Downloads: from http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/
or from https://sourceforge.net/projects/kipi and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/digikam

So what's new on digiKam planet?
--------------------------------
General :
- DigikamImagePlugins have been merged into digiKam. It is easier to release
one package for all and nobody will search for promised features that are not
installed anymore. Image plugins translations are hosted to digikam.po file
instead a .po file for each tool.
- New depency to libkdcraw shared library used to decode RAW file. This
library is shared between digiKam and kipi-plugins. The internal dcraw
version used is 8.60. digiKam now supports all recent digital camera RAW
files released at PMA 2007.
- Make icon size in sidebars configurable to allow more entries to be
presented.
- Reduce icon size of album view and make them configurable using a slider in
status bar.
- Removing direct Exiv2 library depency. libkexiv2 interface is used
everywhere instead.
- A new plugin 'Vivid', similar to Velvia type filters is part of Color
Effect plugin.
Album GUI :
- Add Zoom/Scrooling functions with preview mode. Speed incease.
Image Editor :
- Usability improvement : a new pan tool is available on the right bottom
corner of the status bar to navigate on large pictures.
- Blowup and Resize tools have been merged.
- Unsharp Mask, Refocus, and Sharpen tools have been merged to a new
Sharpness Editor.
- Reorganize menu structure
- persistant selection in all zoom mode.
- Add new option to fit on current selection.
- Red Eyes Correction tool have been completly re-written. There is a preview
and the capability to taint the eye pupil with a customized color. The new
eye pupil can be blurred to smooth the result.
- Solarize plugin is now a "Color Effects" pack including Solarize, Velvia
(new plugin), Neon, and Edge effects.
- Black & White converter now support a lots of B&W analog camera film types
(Agfa, Ilford, Kodak). A new 'strength' setting can simulate the amount of
Lens filters effect.
- Update internal CImg library to 1.1.9. The Greycstoration algorithm used by
Restoration, Inpainting and Blowup plugins is faster and optimized.
Showfoto :
- The thumbbar is now resizable. The thumbnails contents can be
redimensionned in live.
- The thumbbar items can show a full configurable tool tip like digiKam album
icon tems tool tip.
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

all compile fine under Mandriva 2007.1

Note to Translators : libkdcraw have a small libkdcraw.po file to translate because there is a settings widget used by digiKam configuration panel.

Gilles

2007/5/5, Gerhard Kulzer <[hidden email]>:

Dear all digiKam fans!
With the 0.9.2-beta1 release we start into a new release cycle that is
planned to be culminating in a 0.9.2 final release mid June. This version is
already very stable, don't hesitate to use it for production. Beta1 and beta2
are rather used to improve usability.
In order to make digiKam 0.9.2 compile you need to compile and install
libkexiv2 and libkdcraw first.
Downloads: from http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/
or from https://sourceforge.net/projects/kipi and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/digikam

So what's new on digiKam planet?
--------------------------------
General :
- DigikamImagePlugins have been merged into digiKam. It is easier to release
one package for all and nobody will search for promised features that are not
installed anymore. Image plugins translations are hosted to digikam.po file
instead a .po file for each tool.
- New depency to libkdcraw shared library used to decode RAW file. This
library is shared between digiKam and kipi-plugins. The internal dcraw
version used is 8.60. digiKam now supports all recent digital camera RAW
files released at PMA 2007.
- Make icon size in sidebars configurable to allow more entries to be
presented.
- Reduce icon size of album view and make them configurable using a slider in
status bar.
- Removing direct Exiv2 library depency. libkexiv2 interface is used
everywhere instead.
- A new plugin 'Vivid', similar to Velvia type filters is part of Color
Effect plugin.
Album GUI :
- Add Zoom/Scrooling functions with preview mode. Speed incease.
Image Editor :
- Usability improvement : a new pan tool is available on the right bottom
corner of the status bar to navigate on large pictures.
- Blowup and Resize tools have been merged.
- Unsharp Mask, Refocus, and Sharpen tools have been merged to a new
Sharpness Editor.
- Reorganize menu structure
- persistant selection in all zoom mode.
- Add new option to fit on current selection.
- Red Eyes Correction tool have been completly re-written. There is a preview
and the capability to taint the eye pupil with a customized color. The new
eye pupil can be blurred to smooth the result.
- Solarize plugin is now a "Color Effects" pack including Solarize, Velvia
(new plugin), Neon, and Edge effects.
- Black & White converter now support a lots of B&W analog camera film types
(Agfa, Ilford, Kodak). A new 'strength' setting can simulate the amount of
Lens filters effect.
- Update internal CImg library to 1.1.9. The Greycstoration algorithm used by
Restoration, Inpainting and Blowup plugins is faster and optimized.
Showfoto :
- The thumbbar is now resizable. The thumbnails contents can be
redimensionned in live.
- The thumbbar items can show a full configurable tool tip like digiKam album
icon tems tool tip.
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Hi,
first of all, thanks a lot for your help with the kipi stuff.

> Dear all digiKam fans!
>  With the 0.9.2-beta1 release we start into a new release cycle that is
> planned to be culminating in a 0.9.2 final release mid June. This version is
> already very stable, don't hesitate to use it for production. Beta1 and beta2
> are rather used to improve usability.
> In order to make digiKam 0.9.2 compile you need to compile and install
> libkexiv2 and libkdcraw first.
Gherard there's a problem in it (i haven't tested it though) i saw no commits
concerning libkexiv2 Makefile.am. If I'm not wrong, that means digikam could be
installed with the old one, with the same libtools version.
Again if i'm not wrong api has changed, so please take care of that.

Thanks,
        Angelo

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[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Saturday 05 May 2007 schrieb Gilles Caulier:

> Gerhard,
>
> On your digiKam tarball, please comment the line 27 of
> digikam/digikam/albumiconview.cpp to disable the access to Light Table tool
> witch is under development and is not yet complete. I would not see any bug
> report about this part on B.K.O (:=)))
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Gilles
>

Ok, I changed it. But I put the statement to 0 before, isn't that sufficient?

Gerhard


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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2007/5/5, Gerhard Kulzer <[hidden email]>:

Am Saturday 05 May 2007 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> Gerhard,
>
> On your digiKam tarball, please comment the line 27 of
> digikam/digikam/albumiconview.cpp to disable the access to Light Table tool
> witch is under development and is not yet complete. I would not see any bug
> report about this part on B.K.O (:=)))
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Gilles
>
Ok, I changed it. But I put the statement to 0 before, isn't that sufficient?
Gerhard

No. Look the comment before this line. You must just comment or uncomment the line to enable/disable the LT access.

Gilles
 

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[Markus Spring]

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Gilles Caulier wrote:
> digikam/digikam/albumiconview.cpp to disable the access to Light Table
> tool witch is under development and is not yet complete. I would not see
This is really *great* news! (The fact that digikam will have this, not that it
should be commented out, of course)
You probably have no idea how long I have been looking for something like this
to ease the decision which picture to keep or discard. So I will be an even more
happy digikam user in the future.

Thanks a lot!

Markus
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I normally don't like to send out "Me Too" messages, but I do agree. Gilles,
this is really terriffic news!
I hope you allow sorting across albums too!

Dennis


On Sunday 06 May 2007, Markus Spring wrote:

> Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > digikam/digikam/albumiconview.cpp to disable the access to Light Table
> > tool witch is under development and is not yet complete. I would not see
>
> This is really *great* news! (The fact that digikam will have this, not
> that it should be commented out, of course)
> You probably have no idea how long I have been looking for something like
> this to ease the decision which picture to keep or discard. So I will be an
> even more happy digikam user in the future.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Markus
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2007/5/6, Markus Spring <[hidden email]>:

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Gilles Caulier wrote:
> digikam/digikam/albumiconview.cpp to disable the access to Light Table
> tool witch is under development and is not yet complete. I would not see
This is really *great* news! (The fact that digikam will have this, not that it
should be commented out, of course)
You probably have no idea how long I have been looking for something like this
to ease the decision which picture to keep or discard. So I will be an even more
happy digikam user in the future.

Thanks a lot!

Markus,

2 fresh screenshots of this tool in action can be seen here :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/lighttable_v2.png
http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/lighttable_v3.png

The tool can be already used to compare 2 image at the same time. You can pan/zoom over the image like current preview mode do in album gui. In fact Light Table use the same widget from digiKam core : preview widget, thumbbar, popup menu, etc...

Currently 60-70% of implementation is done. But some feature are missing, for example to delete an item from digiKam albums library, or to drag and drop an item from thumbbar  to preview area. Also, more indeep tests need to done before to publish it in final release.

I cannot promise anything here. If i have free time to finalize it for 0.9.2-beta2, Light Table will be include in digiKam 0.9.2 final release planed to june, else later...

Regards

Gilles





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2007/5/6, Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>:

2007/5/6, Markus Spring <[hidden email]>:

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Gilles Caulier wrote:
> digikam/digikam/albumiconview.cpp to disable the access to Light Table
> tool witch is under development and is not yet complete. I would not see
This is really *great* news! (The fact that digikam will have this, not that it
should be commented out, of course)
You probably have no idea how long I have been looking for something like this
to ease the decision which picture to keep or discard. So I will be an even more
happy digikam user in the future.

Thanks a lot!

Markus,

2 fresh screenshots of this tool in action can be seen here :

<a href="http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/lighttable_v2.png" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/lighttable_v2.png
<a href="http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/lighttable_v3.png" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/lighttable_v3.png

The tool can be already used to compare 2 image at the same time. You can pan/zoom over the image like current preview mode do in album gui. In fact Light Table use the same widget from digiKam core : preview widget, thumbbar, popup menu, etc...

Currently 60-70% of implementation is done. But some feature are missing, for example to delete an item from digiKam albums library, or to drag and drop an item from thumbbar  to preview area. Also, more indeep tests need to done before to publish it in final release.

I cannot promise anything here. If i have free time to finalize it for 0.9.2-beta2, Light Table will be include in digiKam 0.9.2 final release planed to june, else later...

Regards

Gilles

And 2 others screenshots with RAW files, thumbnail tool tips, and context pop-up menu from preview.

<a href="http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/lighttable_v3.png" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/lighttable_v4.png
<a href="http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/lighttable_v3.png" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/lighttable_v5.png

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Hi,

Le Sat, 05 May 2007 17:43:16 +0200, Gerhard Kulzer a écrit:

> Dear all digiKam fans!
>  With the 0.9.2-beta1 release we start into a new release cycle that is
> planned to be culminating in a 0.9.2 final release mid June. This
> version is already very stable, don't hesitate to use it for production.
> Beta1 and beta2 are rather used to improve usability. In order to make
> digiKam 0.9.2 compile you need to compile and install libkexiv2 and
> libkdcraw first.
> Downloads: from http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/ or from
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/kipi and
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/digikam

Thanks for your hard work on digikam !
This is a great news.


Just to inform : gentoo users can use my ebuilds to test (and use !)
digikam 0.9.2_beta1 :
http://gentoo.xwing.info/
http://gentoo.xwing.info/media-gfx/digikam/
http://gentoo.xwing.info/media-libs/libkdcraw/
http://gentoo.xwing.info/media-libs/libkexiv2/

Thanks again for your work !

Regards,
Guillaume

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Alle sabato 5 maggio 2007, Angelo Naselli ha scritto:

> Hi,
> first of all, thanks a lot for your help with the kipi stuff.
>
> > Dear all digiKam fans!
> >  With the 0.9.2-beta1 release we start into a new release cycle that is
> > planned to be culminating in a 0.9.2 final release mid June. This version is
> > already very stable, don't hesitate to use it for production. Beta1 and beta2
> > are rather used to improve usability.
> > In order to make digiKam 0.9.2 compile you need to compile and install
> > libkexiv2 and libkdcraw first.
> Gherard there's a problem in it (i haven't tested it though) i saw no commits
> concerning libkexiv2 Makefile.am. If I'm not wrong, that means digikam could be
> installed with the old one, with the same libtools version.
> Again if i'm not wrong api has changed, so please take care of that.

Hi

I uploaded new tarball 0.1.4 I've only changed version info so it should be ok.
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149779&package_id=221579

can you please send a release mail for kipi packages to extragear as well?

Thanks
        Angelo


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