---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins 0.9.0 - Release date: 2006-18-12 NEW FEATURES : *** 0.9.0-beta1 ******************************************************* General : Sidebars are used at all to display metadata, comments & tags, and file properties. General : Removed imlib2 and libkexif depencies. Add Exiv2 and LCMS depencies. General : New API in digiKam core named DImg to manage image data in 8 and 16 bits colors depth. General : New API in digiKam core named DMetadata to manage image metadata. General : Ported all image filter algorithms to new DImg API. Support of 16 bits images. General : New metadata viewers based on Exiv2 : Exif viewer, MakerNote viewer, IPTC viewer, and GPS locator. General : New ICC profiles profile viewer based on LCMS. General : New powerful widget to display CIE color space used by ICC profiles. General : New implementation to load/save images file using a separate thread. General : Tags/Rating/DateTime/Comments/PhotographersID/Copyrights are now stored in Exif and/or IPTC metadata tags. General : digiKam comments are now store in JPEG file to JFIF section, Exif UserComments tags and Caption Iptc tags. General : New fast preview pictures mode embedded into main interface. Image Editor : Image Editor support 16 bits color depth images (RAW, TIFF, PNG, PNM). Image Editor : Complete rewrite of image editor/showfoto gui implementation. Implementation is now common and is more easy to maintain! Image Editor : Add a progress bar to Image editor/showfoto about IO image files access. Image Editor : Support of ICC color profiles management using LCMS into Image editor/showfoto. Image Editor : digiKam setup is now available from Image Editor menu. Image Editor : TIFF and JPEG Exif thumbnail are recomputed at saving pictures. Image Editor : Iptc preview image are recomputed at saving pictures. Image Plugins : New powerfull Noise Reduction algorithm based on dcamnoise2 implementation. Image Plugins : New powerfull Black & White converter tool using curves adjustements. Image Plugins : New plugin to experiment ICC profiles to perform color corrections into images. Image Plugins : New preview rendering modes in all color correction image plugins dialogs. Image Plugins : Redesign/polishing of all image plugins dialogs. Histogram are available at all when it's necessary. All dialogs used in DigikamImagePlugins are common in digiKam core now. Image Plugins : New zooming capabilities in image plugins dialogs. Image Plugins : Ported all core image plugins to new DImg API. Support of 16 bits images. Image Plugins : Ported all DigikamImagePlugins tools to new DImg API. Support of 16 bits images. Setup : Advanced settings to load RAW files in Image Editor using external dcraw instance. Setup : Setup implementation are now common between Showfoto and digiKam. Setup : New Identity setup page to set default strings informations about Photographer and copyright used when IPTC tags are updated. CameraGUI : New option to set metadata DateTime/PhotographerId/Copyright Exif and/or IPTC tags on the fly. CameraGUI : JPEG Exif thumbnail and Iptc image preview are recomputed during Exif Auto-rotation. CameraGUI : digiKam theme support. Showfoto : Image properties sidebar support Showfoto : All images from a folder can be loaded at the same time. Showfoto : Add 16 bits/color/pixel support (DImg API). Showfoto : Thumbbar moved to the left by default in vertical mode. Image properties side bar to the right to make a consistant GUI with digiKam main interface. Showfoto : Thumbbar can be used to the bottom in horizontal mode. Showfoto : New Exif Auto-rotate option like in digiKam ImageEditor. Showfoto : New Set Orientation Exif flag to normal after Rotate/Flip like in digiKam ImageEditor. *** 0.9.0-beta2 ******************************************************* CameraGUI : Custom prefix index depand of current images selection in the camera icon items CameraGUI : New option to show camera summary and documentations of Gphoto2 drivers. CameraGUI : Option to upload pictures to camera using copy&paste or drag&drop. CameraGUI : New option to start number sequence index with a custom value. CameraGUI : New option to add postfix string to target download file name. CameraGUI : New option to add camera name to target download file name. CameraGUI : New option to increase/decrease the thumbnails size. CameraGUI : New option to lock/unlock pictures from camera to prevent unwanted deletion. CameraGUI : New option to convert JPEG files to lossless file format during download. CameraGUI : New option to set date format of auto-created albums. CameraGUI : New option to auto-create files extension-based sub-albums. Image Plugins : "Add Border" tool now respect aspect ratio of original image to render the decorative border. Image Plugins : "Add Border" tool now use a border size depending of a percent value of original image size. General : New dcraw version detection at startup. General : New option to force the refresh of Album contents. General : Usability improvements of albums/pictures deletion. General : New option to process a batch creation of all albums items thumbnails. General : New option to "Select All", "Deselect", or "Invert Selection" of Tags in Tags Filter View and Comments and Tags side bar tabs. General : New option to set image as tag thumbnail on Tag Filters View using D&D. General : New option to set a matching condition to use between tags in Tag Filters View (OR or AND condition). Setup : The new batch thumbnail generator can be started when the Exif Auto-rotate option has been changed. Setup : New Album Items Tool Tip setup tab to set witch information to show over the images using the pop-up window. Setup : New color sheme theme 'Digikasa' from Sergio Di Rio Mare. *** 0.9.0-beta3 ******************************************************* Setup : New dcraw options set compatible with dcraw release >= 8.16. General : Automatic image Tags creation/set using IPTC Keywords contents. General : New kipi plugin to set pictures GPS informations using a GPS device (available with next kipi-plugins 0.1.3). General : Removing external dcraw depency. Now digiKam include a full supported version of dcraw program in core. CameraGUI : New advanced config dialog to set date/time format used to rename camera pictures file name during download. *** 0.9.0-rc1 ********************************************************** General : dcraw implementation updated to version 8.41. General : New kipi plugin to edit EXIF and IPTC metadata (available with next kipi-plugins 0.1.3). *** 0.9.0-rc2 ********************************************************** General : Exiv2 depency fixed to 0.12 release. General : Fix broken compilation using "./configure -enable-final" option. ImageEditor : Fixed and improved Color Management View workflow. *** 0.9.0-final ********************************************************* General : About final release packaging, improve support of "./configure --enable-final" option everywhere. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins BUGFIX FROM KDE BUGZILLA (alias B.K.O | http://bugs.kde.org): *** 0.9.0-beta1 ******************************************************* 001 ==> 87823 : Displaying images with ICC color profile when possible. 002 ==> 91811 : Find pictures by meta tag info, date. 003 ==> 91812 : Viewer/editor for IPTC meta data. 004 ==> 96459 : EXIF for RAW camera images. 005 ==> 116248 : Ask user which plugins should be enabled on first startup. 006 ==> 115441 : Resize EXIF-rotated images doesn't work. 007 ==> 115460 : Opening and closing right pane with tag filter also changes width of left pane and vv. 008 ==> 124688 : digiKam loading time is big because of : WARNING: Failed to find parent for Tag. 009 ==> 109253 : digiKam does not store comments in image EXIF tags. 010 ==> 115764 : Modify EXIF creation date. 011 ==> 121487 : "Tip of the day" text gets cut off. 012 ==> 120052 : Redraw problem with whatthis info of an image show and start scrolling with the mouse. 013 ==> 120053 : Whatthis info not closed when albumview is scrolled up or down with cursor keys. 014 ==> 123522 : Minolta's RAW files (mrw) aren't show in the view window. 015 ==> 121905 : Albums not displayed correctly and digiKam crashes with St9bad_alloc. 016 ==> 113997 : Option to store tags in image. 017 ==> 123742 : Preview-pictures seem to be handled differently by digiKam and Konqueror. 018 ==> 121308 : Mass storage and PTP usability. 019 ==> 121306 : Add copyright/license during download. 020 ==> 111560 : Be able to locate photos on a map. 021 ==> 122747 : Will not build with GCC 4.1. 022 ==> 103176 : 16bit/channel framework for digiKam. 023 ==> 109096 : Provide quick access to image comment. 024 ==> 109817 : Feature request for image properties dialog in image editor. 025 ==> 109992 : Preview in comments editor resizeable. 026 ==> 113103 : Show digiKam comments into digiKam image editor. 027 ==> 124939 : Improve import picture nomenclature. 028 ==> 113915 : Tags are lost after "Save As..."ing. 029 ==> 103245 : Image Effects are inaccessible from image editor. 030 ==> 125589 : Saving user preferences not possible. 031 ==> 103201 : Easy transport of albums, including tags, comments, etc. 032 ==> 119234 : Window views not updated when tag name changed in "Tag Filters". 033 ==> 103255 : Wish: *add* (not edit) EXIF headers like date, comment etc. 034 ==> 121800 : Can't setup camera correctly. 035 ==> 121784 : Accessing the camera in mass storage mode just lists jpegs and no other filetypes. 036 ==> 121371 : Missing display of EXIF infos in "Simple view". 037 ==> 123646 : Rating image with a keyboard shortcut. 038 ==> 119946 : Thumbnails not correctly rotated according to exif information. 039 ==> 106103 : Should support adding GPS EXIF header to images. 040 ==> 110598 : Synchronize digiKam comments to existing embedded comments. 041 ==> 118501 : Exifs lost when modifying the images. 042 ==> 122264 : Exif data fail to show up in recent SVN. 043 ==> 103489 : Sort and re-order EXIF information dialogs. 044 ==> 105670 : Option to print EXIF data with images. 045 ==> 109319 : Full EXIF info - exiftags style. 046 ==> 120963 : Optional album date change. 047 ==> 121370 : Can't save images sometimes after some modifications. 048 ==> 121646 : digiKam on PPC has problem identifying JPEG and tries to use dcraw with them. 049 ==> 120479 : Search problem for not tagged or commented images. 050 ==> 120775 : Search doesn't find pictures without rating. 051 ==> 112063 : When viewing image in fullscreen there is an ugly frame at the border of the screen. 052 ==> 120736 : Many imageplugins going busy for ever when not using rubber to change a value. 053 ==> 116154 : Show progress bar while saving large files. 054 ==> 120521 : Untranslatable message in tagfilterview.cpp. 055 ==> 119742 : Wish list -include move to trash in right click menu. 056 ==> 119201 : Sometimes digiKam fails to show newly downloaded photos. 057 ==> 117401 : digiKam's 'my albums' and 'my tags' does no longer remember it's state when restarted. 058 ==> 116520 : Slideshow should work for search results as well. 059 ==> 119073 : Wish list rescan option. 060 ==> 118543 : Enable-nfs-hack no longer works. 061 ==> 113807 : Is it possible to have the tags of the contextual menus "Assign Tag" and "Remove Tag" sorted ? 062 ==> 116343 : "Not Tagged" has disappeared from the Tags Filter view when changing album library path. 063 ==> 117225 : digiKam requires at least libpng >= 1.2.7. 064 ==> 115423 : Thumbnails view jumps to top when new photos are added. 065 ==> 125732 : ICC settings get reset when disabled and re-enabled. 066 ==> 119741 : Restore image editor if already open. 067 ==> 122374 : Ignores read-only permission during saving. 068 ==> 121367 : Add properties tab to digiKam and (especially) Image Editor. 069 ==> 125926 : Directories with a '#' in their name are not properly detected when created outside digiKam. 070 ==> 125733 : Enabling 'Always apply ICM profiles' can lead to suprising results. 071 ==> 126326 : Camera download: auto-rotated images loose EXIF info when 'No EXIF information found.' is written to console. 072 ==> 121242 : mimelnk/x-image-raw.desktop conflicts with tdegraphics-3.5.x. 073 ==> 127374 : Unsharp mask: max. radius way too small. 074 ==> 116485 : Mimimize button missing on "Compaq Flash Reader" camera window. 075 ==> 127577 : Raw display too dark and not rotated. 076 ==> 127634 : Communication between digiKam and its tdeioslaves broken if size_t != off_t. 077 ==> 126335 : Autoration of photos may confuse user because of changes made he is not aware of. 078 ==> 127759 : No scroll bar in color management/select profile. 079 ==> 114211 : Main Interface: image comments encoding unreadable after moving an album. 080 ==> 120241 : Main Interface: utf8 display and edit. 081 ==> 127905 : Wish: make comment field resizable. 082 ==> 127946 : Typo: the word Toogle should be Toggle. 083 ==> 117115 : Automatically rotate/flip using camera-provided information (EXIF) modifies image contents 084 ==> 128069 : Crash when moving an album to another album. 085 ==> 125779 : Use deflate compression for tiffs. 086 ==> 127972 : digiKam does not *add* EXIF:DateTimeOriginal when modifying date 087 ==> 127697 : Camera gui always puts *.JPG and *.NEF in the configure - digiKam dialog/File Mime Types/ Image Files. 088 ==> 128373 : "Makernote - Simple" should show ISO. 089 ==> 113915 : Tags are lost after "Save As..."ing. 090 ==> 128283 : Thumbnail generation fails with raw images. 091 ==> 126112 : Do not open new window when camera is connected. 092 ==> 127846 : digiKam crash when 2nd gphoto camera dialog is closed. 093 ==> 93569 : Easier connection to USB disc cameras. 094 ==> 124952 : digiKam "Mount and Download" Problems. 095 ==> 129134 : Typo in missing files warning dialog "loose" should be "lose". 096 ==> 128914 : Differientiating view and edit / call for a integrated viewer. 097 ==> 128669 : Use embedded thumbnail for viewing RAW files. 098 ==> 127991 : digiKam image editor and raws (nef). 099 ==> 129450 : Cannot exit preview mode within empty album. 100 ==> 129610 : Unsupported initialization of CameraList object. 101 ==> 127584 : Minimum width of sidebar too large. 102 ==> 127763 : Color management, profile selection crashes. 103 ==> 126199 : Nikon D70 comments in jpegs are all shown as "charset="Ascii". 104 ==> 130381 : Automatic colorbalance and camera color balance checkboxes swapped. 105 ==> 117248 : Opening default app when camera inserted return KIOExec error. 106 ==> 130883 : Overexposure indicator in color management is saved as part of the image. 107 ==> 130798 : Editor saves some jpeg's 30% smaller than original, even with jpeg compression option set at 100. 108 ==> 130525 : Saving large (>5M) jpg's result in corrupt file. 109 ==> 130920 : ICC, profiles, metadata, abbreviations. 110 ==> 124199 : digiKam crashed when I right-clicked in the (empty) "My Albums" view. 111 ==> 127826 : Album comment with no wordwrap. *** 0.9.0-beta2 ******************************************************* 112 ==> 121691 : Problems with Downloading images from Camera. 113 ==> 127614 : Focus steal when typing custom prefix in renaming options sidebar. 114 ==> 131034 : Display a mini-review of the photo currently transfered, i.e better visual feedback. 115 ==> 124425 : Start index number counting on selected images instead of all images. 116 ==> 127272 : Crash when opening image in Image Editor. 117 ==> 96186 : Upload to camera not possible. 118 ==> 107724 : Handle EXIF Information-Wizzard missing. 119 ==> 130996 : More control over jpeg options. 120 ==> 121526 : Download Images from camera. 121 ==> 124060 : Use same menu mnemonic for Filter as Krita (and Photoshop, and ...). 122 ==> 131301 : Crash after add second image. 123 ==> 109820 : Utility script to export tag information of images into the filesystem. 124 ==> 117375 : Change file name without affecting extension. 125 ==> 131603 : Orientation of RAW-images (especially Canons *.cr2). 126 ==> 131532 : Minolta exception code can break EXIF rotation. 127 ==> 131550 : digiKam/showfoto can't show jpeg image under PowerPC. 128 ==> 131549 : Endianess problem under Linux-PowerPC (with png images at least). 129 ==> 132011 : Add search criteria to take sub-tags into account. 130 ==> 131920 : Can't create preview folders with unicode characters in the name. 131 ==> 132113 : Resize dialog limits image width/height to 4 digits. 132 ==> 132081 : Critical: ShowFoto silently aborts saving image when closed. 133 ==> 118535 : Add Border: use percent to designate border size. 134 ==> 131686 : Crash when viewing/rollover of Sony Alpha 100 raw (.arw) images. 135 ==> 132582 : Some pictures make digiKam crash (sample included). 136 ==> 122693 : Improvement proposals for the "add border" plugin. 137 ==> 124183 : Option to convert images when importing them from the camera. 138 ==> 128673 : Add keyboard shortcut to refresh album view or auto-refresh when pictures are renamed. 139 ==> 126427 : In "rename file" dialog, the 2nd picture is (and can't) not displayed. 140 ==> 131558 : Camera UI: renaming dialogue can't handle UTF-8 filenames. 141 ==> 119075 : Wish list new folder date option. 142 ==> 128817 : Configure timestamp naming format for directory names. 143 ==> 132660 : Shortcuts for ratings do not work as of 0.9.x beta. 144 ==> 126874 : digiKam does not support . 145 ==> 132957 : Crash using dcop action: album_forward. 146 ==> 130547 : Automatically download RAW-images into separate folder below the JPG-images. 147 ==> 128296 : Icon selector for tags wont let user select 'other icons'. 148 ==> 115161 : Image comments/tags: 'Recent tags' looks like a button but funktons like a menu. 149 ==> 121423 : Rename file loses Album thumbnail. 150 ==> 120308 : Batch creation of thumbnails. 151 ==> 120074 : New tag doesn't appear. 152 ==> 120075 : Can't restore system icons for tag. 153 ==> 133209 : Shift selection is not working in download screen. 154 ==> 131552 : Typo inconsisted use of ICC. 155 ==> 131553 : Typo indent must be intent? 156 ==> 118526 : Make it possible to remove an album's thumbnail. 157 ==> 120050 : Assigning an image as icon for a tag entry in 'Tag View' does not update the icons of this tag in 'Tag Filters'. 158 ==> 129365 : Keyword-List view still uses old description after renaming keyword. 159 ==> 115154 : Tags filter misses 'deselect all Tags' in context menu. 160 ==> 133525 : digiKam doesn't compile (KDE forces -fno-exception, digiKam needs it). 161 ==> 115160 : 'Tag Filters' should use 'and' not 'or' or maybe better label 'Show Tags'. 162 ==> 120056 : Allow to assign via drag and drop tag thumbnails in 'Tag Filters'. 163 ==> 132694 : RAW Thumbnailing very slower and resource intensive. *** 0.9.0-beta3 ******************************************************* 164 ==> 134013 : Tag menu extremly slow. 165 ==> 122653 : File-dialogue claims that pictures are not on the local-storage, yet they are. 166 ==> 134091 : dcraw -n option not valid for version > 8.15. 167 ==> 134224 : Prefix for image filename in camera dialog not working. 168 ==> 133359 : Google maps support to show satellite images of the photos. 169 ==> 131347 : Comments modified in digiKam Image Editor are not saved. 170 ==> 134351 : Error while make install. 171 ==> 132841 : Tag filtering works only a the second click on the tag filter list. 172 ==> 133359 : Google maps support to show satellite images of the photos. 173 ==> 134924 : Patch to allow compile with LDFLAGS="-Wl, --as-needed". 174 ==> 134841 : Weird behaviour of identity setup. 175 ==> 131382 : All thumbnails of album destroyed when using Tag Filters. 176 ==> 134869 : High CPU usage while displaying ICC Profile. 177 ==> 134761 : A rotated RAW image get saved straight with an inconsistent Exif orientation. 178 ==> 135236 : Right-click menu rename function cuts to the first period (not the extention one). 179 ==> 135307 : After deleting a file, user comments entered for pictures apply to the wrong picture. 180 ==> 135145 : Raw image converter fails on my raw files (cr2, crw, dng). 181 ==> 125727 : digiKam open with of raw file only shows application for octet-stream. 182 ==> 135430 : Typo automaticly should be automatically in raw image converter. 183 ==> 135060 : Folders without pictures in it cannot be assigned icons. *** 0.9.0-rc1 ********************************************************** 184 ==> 103255 : Add (not edit) EXIF headers like date, comment etc. 185 ==> 91812 : Viewer/editor for IPTC meta data. 186 ==> 136138 : Set as album thumbnail doesn't change the icon immediately. 187 ==> 135851 : Wish to view IPTC in different order. 188 ==> 136162 : ISO Slider label is incorrectly labeled as "sensibility", should be sensitivity. 189 ==> 133026 : Crashes on systems using hyperthreading. 190 ==> 136260 : Awkward management of metadata and digiKam-tags and comments. 191 ==> 136769 : digiKam crashes when resetting Album icon (with no album selected). 192 ==> 136749 : Tags are not kept with images when album is moved in album hierarchy. 193 ==> 123623 : digiKam freezes or is very slow. 194 ==> 96993 : Ability to view next next image in folder in showfoto. 195 ==> 136643 : Showfoto can open CRW, but not shown in file dialogue. 196 ==> 137063 : Keyboard shortcut for 'paste' action not working. 197 ==> 137461 : Typo croping must be cropping. 198 ==> 137282 : Comments are lost when copying or moving an image to another album. 199 ==> 132805 : Crash when assinging keywords. 200 ==> 137204 : Crash when applying IPTC data. 201 ==> 135407 : Reproducible crash selecting photos from collection. 202 ==> 136086 : Crash when saving any type of files. 203 ==> 137612 : Showfoto doesn't refresh the photo preview when deleting an image. *** 0.9.0-rc2 ********************************************************** 204 ==> 115125 : White Balance tool: remaining endianess issue on PowerPC. 205 ==> 137495 : showfoto crashes when doing any modification to a loaded directory. 206 ==> 137845 : Album Header cut off (squeezed) when entering two or more lines in Album comment. 207 ==> 137886 : When a tag is moved in the left panel it's position is not updated in the right panel. 208 ==> 135834 : Lowercasing camera filenames only works for first imported file. 209 ==> 134391 : digiKam camera gui dialog crashes if there is a filename without extension. 210 ==> 131947 : digiKam complains about invalid ICC profiles path. 211 ==> 130176 : Typos in digiKam.po and one plugin. 212 ==> 138252 : Display is not updates when switching color managed view on/off. 213 ==> 138253 : Keyboard shortcut for turning color managed display on/off. *** 0.9.0-final ********************************************************* 214 ==> 137461 : Typo croping must be cropping. 215 ==> 135477 : View mode which shows the comment of an image. 216 ==> 137770 : digiKam doesn't keep original unix rights when modifying comments/tags/rating. 217 ==> 133091 : Changing date/time with numblock changes also the orientation. 218 ==> 137993 : Importing photos into albums results in time/date file override with current one. 219 ==> 138620 : Saving an image destroy another picture. 220 ==> 119205 : Drag & Drop of image into librarypath root dir ==> images are invisible. 221 ==> 121651 : Export menu not available in context menu from album. 222 ==> 131601 : Need preview pane (large) in main digikam window. 223 ==> 133276 : Make changing EXIF date of multiple files easier. 224 ==> 133590 : Usability: walking through photos using image View (F3). 225 ==> 122746 : Images are not shown anymore. black screen. 226 ==> 132470 : Plugins not available unless logged in as superuser. 227 ==> 113801 : Little problem with image files extensions. 228 ==> 127112 : Tools -> 'Gamma Adjustment...' fails silently when kgamma is not installed. 229 ==> 136258 : User comments in the EXIF/IPTC-data aren't carried over to the "Comments". 230 ==> 136932 : Access to a specific jpg photo crashed digiKam. 231 ==> 135442 : Add 'rename' entry to album RMB menu. 232 ==> 138540 : Images files are updated (but not modified) when setting new metadatas albeit they are unset. 233 ==> 136256 : Tags are not filled from the IPTC-keywords. 234 ==> 136062 : Charset problem saving EXIF comments (JPEG files). 235 ==> 133567 : Crash when testing tags in digikam image editor (saveWithExiv2). 236 ==> 138300 : Crash on startup with one user's collection. 237 ==> 138747 : Crash on Add Camera. 238 ==> 138715 : Crash when quickly switching to previous/next image. 239 ==> 138616 : Cannot compile: cannot verify exiv2 version. 240 ==> 134999 : Crash in exiv2 when searching for new images. 241 ==> 136771 : Image editor crashes when using undo. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------