digiKam 0.9.5-beta1 release for KDE3

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

The digiKam development team is happy to start a new serie of KDE3 releases. The
digiKam 0.9.5-beta1 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641

This new version is fully compatible with libkdcraw 0.1.6 (based on LibRaw http://www.libraw.org)

Some new features for Image Editor have been backported from KDE4 as RawImport tool and all image plug-ins ported to Editor Tool API.
With this last one, all plug-in dialogs has been removed. Plugins are now embedded in editor window.

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NEW FEATURES:

General          : libkdcraw dependency updated to 0.1.6

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

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

001 ==> 166867 : Digikam crashes when starting.
002 ==> 167026 : Crash on startup Directory ImageSubIfd0 not valid.
003 ==> 146870 : Don't reduce size of image when rotating.
004 ==> 167528 : Remove hotlinking URL from tips.
005 ==> 167343 : Albums view corrupted and unusable.
006 ==> 146033 : When switching with Page* image jumps.
007 ==> 127242 : Flashing 'histogram calculation in progress' is a bit annoying.
008 ==> 150457 : More RAW controls in color management pop-up please.
009 ==> 155074 : Edit Image should allow chance to adjust RAW conversion parameters.
010 ==> 155076 : RAW Conversion UI Needs to be more generic.
011 ==> 142975 : Better support for RAW photo handling.
012 ==> 147136 : When selecting pictures from folder showfoto got closed.
013 ==> 168780 : Loose the raw import.
014 ==> 160564 : No refresh of the number of pictures assigned to a tag after removing the tag from some pictures.
015 ==> 158144 : Showfoto crashes in settings window.
016 ==> 162845 : 'Ctrl+F6' Conflict with KDE global shortcut.
017 ==> 159523 : Digikam crashes while downloading images from Olympus MJU 810/Stylus 810 camera no xD card.
018 ==> 161369 : Quick filter indicator lamp is not working properly in recursive image folder view mode.
019 ==> 147314 : Renaming like crazy with F2 slows down my system.
020 ==> 164622 : Crash using timeline when switching from month to week to month view.
021 ==> 141951 : Blank empty context right-click menus.
022 ==> 116886 : Proposal for adding a new destripe/denoise technique.
023 ==> 163602 : Race condition during image download from Camera/ USB device: image corruption and/or loss.
024 ==> 165857 : Unreliable import when photo root is on network share.
025 ==> 147435 : Resize slider in sharpness dialog doesn't work correct.
026 ==> 168844 : Make the selection rectangle draggable over the image (not only resizable).
027 ==> 147151 : Compile error: multiple definition of `jpeg_suppress_tables'.
028 ==> 170758 : High load when tagging
029 ==> 168003 : Drag&dropping a photo to a folder in Dolphin begins copying the whole system:/media.
030 ==> 142457 : Temp files not cleaned up after crashes.

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Best Regards

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

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