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digiKam 1.0.0-beta1 released...
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
A new test cycle has been started to complete 1.0.0 release...
digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
digiKam will be also available for Windows. Precompiled packages
digiKam digest - 2009-06-07
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Outstanding work this week was done on:
First visible effect of porting to Qt4 model list view: overlays over image
digiKam digest - 2009-05-31
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roadmap to next release, finally 1.0!
usability fixes
attempt to speed up loading of thumbnails by compromise on
digiKam digest - 2009-05-24
In this week there was mostly continuation of last week work:
- New expander widget in all plugins and whole interface
- fixing of memory leaks
- making MSVC happy (many thanks to developers working on MS-Windows
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digiKam digest - 2009-05-17
This week in digiKam:
taking care about MS-Windows; to quote Andi: "Hope MSVC is happy now."
new expander box widget for easier display of data in main GUI and all plugins:
continuing work on Content Aware Resize
Kipi-plugins 0.3.0 for KDE4 released
Dear all digiKam fans and users!
Kipi-plugins 0.3.0 maintenance release for KDE4 is out.
kipi-plugins 0.3.0 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url
Kipi-plugins will be also available for Windows. Precompiled
digiKam digest - 2009-05-10
Usual portion of bug fixes and polishing. In addition:
- main part of port to Qt4 ListModel view done
- improving of Content Aware Resize plugin
- polishing of Free Rotation interface
- optimizations in thumbanils view
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libkdcraw 0.1.9 release for KDE3
libkdcraw 0.1.9 for KDE3 has been just released. The tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url.
This release include last version of LibRaw 0.7.2 Raw decoder. For more informations about digiKam playing with LibRaw , take a look on this previous blog entry
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Sony makernotes supports : I need pictures to work...
I decided to start soon the implementation of Sony Makernotes support on Exiv2 library.
In fact since Sony acquire Minolta compagny to sold photography devices in 2006, new Sony camera are based on Minolta firmware, and Markernotes from RAW/JPEG files are based on Minolta contents.
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New 'auto-correction-mode' for the Free Rotation image plugin
A few weeks ago I added a new feature to the Free-Rotation imageplugin: 'Automatic (Horizon) Correction'.
This is nothing new, Gimp and Photoshop (and for sure other applications) have such a feature, too.
You set two points in the preview widget and hit "Adjust" to rotate the image accordingly to these markers.
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