digiKam

Recently, i redesigned the camera interface to be more homogenous with the rest of digiKam (album view, light table and image editor) The old implementation used a simple dialog to host camera interface contents. This way been an huge limitation ... [More] to add new options for the future. Also, the dialog layout been not optimum. Now, we use a status bar, a tool bar and a standard menu. On status bar, a widget provide a speed way to change thumbs size. Also, this version is able to show XMP metadata. We have planed [Less]

If you read this web site regulary, you will have seen a poll to survey user wishes. The last one is this entry. As you can see, XMP metadata support is on the top of the list... Andreas Huggel (Exiv2 library author) has work recently to support ... [More] XMP and provided a first alpha version to test. I have patched libkexiv2 and digiKam for KDE4 to support it. Well now, digiKam and Showfoto are able to display XMP contents on Metadata sidebar ! read more [Less]

If you read this web site regulary, you will have seen a poll to survey user wishes. The last one is this entry. As you can see, XMP metadata support is on the top of the list... Andreas Huggel (Exiv2 library author) has work recently to support ... [More] XMP and provided a first alpha version to test. I have patched libkexiv2 and digiKam for KDE4 to support it. Well now, digiKam and Showfoto are able to display XMP contents on Metadata sidebar ! [Less]

With the next releases of the digiKam, the time has come to find the ideal splash-screens to go with it. Now is your chance to join the ranks of the precious few who have had their artwork associated with a release of digiKam! SplashScreen is a ... [More] simple way for users to contribute to digiKam project. The pictures must be correctly exposed and composed, and the subject must be choosen using a real photographer inspiration. The next stable release 0.9.3 of digiKam is planed to september. This version will includes few bug fix for KDE3 envirronement. For this release, we need 2 new splash-screens dedicaced to digiKam and Showfoto startup. Note, than it will also the same about digiKam and Showfoto for KDE4 envirronement planed around december. To resume, we need 4 color or black and white pictures, taken horizontally. We need only photos, no need to put few marks about program name and version. We have a template to do it later. See below the official 0.9.2 splash-screen as exemple: [Less]

With the next releases of the digiKam, the time has come to find the ideal splash-screens to go with it. Now is your chance to join the ranks of the precious few who have had their artwork associated with a release of digiKam! SplashScreen is a ... [More] simple way for users to contribute to digiKam project. The pictures must be correctly exposed and composed, and the subject must be choosen using a real photographer inspiration. The next stable release 0.9.3 of digiKam is planed to september. This version will includes few bug fix for KDE3 envirronement. For this release, we need 2 new splash-screens dedicaced to digiKam and Showfoto startup. Note, than it will also the same about digiKam and Showfoto for KDE4 envirronement planed around december. To resume, we need 4 color or black and white pictures, taken horizontally. We need only photos, no need to put few marks about program name and version. We have a template to do it later. See below the official 0.9.2 splash-screen as exemple: read more [Less]

Today, Marcel has polished libkipi to KDE4 port implementation to be able to load kipi-plugins from kipi host applications. digiKam for KDE4 is now fully capable to load kipi-plugins. It's the first kipi host which can do it... Two kipi-plugins ... [More] are already fully ported : TimeAdjust and JPEGLossLess. It will be time now to port all others plugins to KDE4 to complete the job... [Less]

Today, after 5 weeks of intensive work to port source code (and one million of commits on svn), digiKam compile fine now under QT4/KDE4. Of course, port still uncomplete. Duing indeep changes in new KDE4 and QT4 API, few crash must be fixed in new implementation. It still unstable and not suitable as well. But it's just a question of time...

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 Albums ... [More] , support Tags, and resize images. Some more GUI improvements would be done soon. All feedback are welcome on kipi-plugins mailling list... [Less]

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]

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.