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New digiKam PicasaWeb export plugin...

Posted over 2 years ago

Today, Vardhman Jain has added a new kipi-plugin into svn to export picture collections to PicasaWeb internet service.

This is a first beta release of this plugin which compile with KDE3. Features include are Uploading photos, Creating ... [More] Albums, support Tags, and resize images.

Some more GUI improvements would be done soon. All feedback are welcome on kipi-plugins mailling list... [Less]

digiKam wins c't Linux photo suite comparison

Posted over 2 years ago

The computer magazine c't compares different photo management suites for Linux in issue 14/2007. The focus is on organizing photos and the most important image editing features, like color correction, sharpening, noise reduction or effect filters. ... [More] Compared to KPhotoalbum, f-spot, picasa and GThumb, digiKam was the only program that recieved the highest rating ( ) for searching and image editing. Moreover, import/export, photo management and presentation were rated as ( ). It is worth pointing out, that digikam could win this review just with its basic features, while the professional aspects of digikam 0.9.2 like 16bit/color, advanced raw handling, color management, geo-data handling or the new light table comparison tool were not taken into account.
This review is stimulation for the whole team which is in the process of porting the program to KDE4. [Less]

digiKam KDE4 port : another brick in the wall...

Posted over 2 years ago

This week end, Marcel has fixed the libkdcraw library to port implementation as pure Qt4. Today I have processed all regression tests with Showfoto under KDE4 with sucess.

Next stage is to update dcraw program in libkdcraw core. Currently dcraw 8.60 is used and we need an upgrate to last 8.76 to support all recent camera RAW files.

digiKam KDE4 port in progress

Posted over 2 years ago

digiKam source code port is in progress. After 3 weeks of intensive work, digiKam core library is fully ported and Showfoto is abble to start as a KDE4 program.

Of course porting code is not perfect, and Showfoto crash quickly. Layout of ... [More] dialog and sidebar need to be cleaned duing of several changes in QT4 and KDE4 API.

Porting an application KDE3 to KDE4 is not a simple task and require time to do regression tests indeep. Also, KDE4 API are not yet frozen and cause several troubles for developpers... [Less]

Final DigiKam 0.9.2 Release available

Posted over 2 years ago

Dear digiKam users,

the digiKam team is happy to announce a new release of the
advanced digital photo management application for linux.

In addition to various bug-fixes and improvements,
several new features have been added. ... [More]

Some important improvements/changes are:

a light-table to quickly compare similar images side by side

Thumbnail size in the album view can be adjusted continuously, details.

Image Editor: reorganized menu structure

Image Editor: new pan tool

Image Editor: new Sharpness Editor (replacing Unsharp Mask, Refocus, Sharpen) [Less]

digiKam port to Cmake, QT4, and KDE4

Posted over 2 years ago

Recently, digiKam port to KDE4 have been started. Laurent Montel, a KDE core developer will help digiKam team in this task. Thanks to him...

The shared libraries libkipi, libkdcraw, and libkexiv2 are already ported. I have also ported 3 ... [More] kipi-plugins: WallPaper, TimeAdjust, and JPEGLossLess.

The goal of digiKam KDE4 port is to have a stable release at KDE4 release date.

In svn, we have now 2 branches where we works:

KDE3 source code is in branches/extragear/kde3

KDE4 source code is in trunk/extragear [Less]

digiKam 0.9.2-beta3 Release

Posted over 2 years ago

Dear all digiKam fans!
Some minor regression bugs led us to another release, the 0.9.2-beta3 release including an improved light table (full size images). The 0.9.2 final release is on track for mid June publishing. This beta3 version is ... [More] rock-solid, don't hesitate to use it for production.

In order to make digiKam 0.9.2-beta3 compile you need to compile and install libkexiv2 and libkdcraw first (unless you complied them for beta[1,2] already).

The library tarballs can be downloaded from (1) SourceForge.
The digiKam tarball documentation can be downloaded from (2) SourceForge as well. [Less]

digiKam 0.9.2-beta2 release

Posted over 3 years ago

Dear all digiKam fans!
The success story continues with the 0.9.2-beta2 release including a new light table (compare feature). The 0.9.2 final release is on track for mid June publishing. This beta2 version is rock-solid, don't hesitate to use it ... [More] for production. Beta1 and beta2 are rather used to improve usability than debugging.

In order to make digiKam 0.9.2-beta2 compile you need to compile and install libkexiv2 and libkdcraw first (unless you complied them for beta1 already).

The library tarballs can be downloaded from (1) SourceForge.
The digiKam tarball documentation can be downloaded from (2) SourceForge as well. [Less]