---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins 0.9.1 - Release date: 2007-03-04 NEW FEATURES : General : New native JPEG2000 image loader using Jasper library witch can support 16 bits color depth pictures. General : New optimized layout to show Comments & Tags side bar contents. General : Tags View from Comments & Tags side bar support drag & drop. General : New Batch tool to sync all images metadata (EXIF/IPTC) with digiKam database content. General : Add a status bar to Album Gui with a progress bar, text bar, and navigate bar. General : New native SlideShow tool witch use the Image Preview feature. RAW files can be slided very fast. AlbumGUI : Improvement of pop-up menu of Tags Filter View and Comment & Tags about auto selection/deselection of parents/childs tags in Tags treeview. AlbumGUI : Main Root album show a Welcome page for new users (like Kmail or Konqueror). AlbumGUI : Video files can be previewed using an embedded instance of default KDE media player. AlbumGUI : Preview picture mode use a memory cache to speed-up loading. AlbumGUI : Preview picture mode pride a context pop-up menu. AlbumGUI : Comments & Tags now support multiple selection of items to apply properties. AlbumGUI : New option to set the action to do when user right click on picture thumb: Load on Image Editor or Show an embeded preview. AlbumGUI : Prefer Exif DateTimeOriginal for sorting images (DateTimeDigitized and DateTime only used as fallback) Image Plugins : All tools remember settings between sessions. Image Plugins : All tools render properly preview of image using Color Managed View. Image Plugins : All tools use the same keyboard shortcuts than PhotoShop. Image Plugins : New option in all Color corrections Tools to show under-exposed and over-exposed areas of corrected picture before to apply corrections. Image Plugins : Brightness/Contrast/Gamma : settings value excursion are the same than Photoshop. Image Plugins : Add Border Tool : add new option to preserve aspect ratio. Border Width can be set in pixels or in percents accordinly with this setting. Image Plugins : Perspective Tool : add a grid and vertical/horizontal guide lines. Image Plugins : Ratio-crop Tool : usability improvements from Jaromir Malenko. Image Plugins : Auto Color Correction Tool : add new filter to perform auto-exposure corrections. Image Plugins : all plugins : capabilty to remember settings between plugin sessions to store configuration in a settings file. Image Editor : Add new advanced options to keep ratio and alignment about print pictures. Image Editor : Add 2 new advanced options to show under-exposed or over-exposed pixels. Image Editor : Remove View->Histogram menu option. We have a better histogram available in sidebar. Image Editor : Color profiles are tested now to avoid invalid files. Image Editor : JPEG/PNG/TIFF/JPEG2000 file save settings are now available in File Save dialog. Image Editor : JPEG file save settings include a red warning about this lossy compression image format with a link to wikipedia to aware users. 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. AlbumGUI : Improvement of pop-up menu of Tags Filter View and Comment & Tags about auto selection/deselection of parents/childs tags in Tags treeview. AlbumGUI : Main Root album show a Welcome page for new users (like Kmail or Konqueror). AlbumGUI : Video files can be previewed using an embedded instance of default KDE media player. AlbumGUI : Preview picture mode use a memory cache to speed-up loading. AlbumGUI : Preview picture mode pride a context pop-up menu. AlbumGUI : Comments & Tags now support multiple selection of items to apply properties. AlbumGUI : New option to set the action to do when user right click on picture thumb: Load on Image Editor or Show an embeded preview. AlbumGUI : Prefer Exif DateTimeOriginal for sorting images (DateTimeDigitized and DateTime only used as fallback) Image Plugins : All tools remember settings between sessions. Image Plugins : All tools render properly preview of image using Color Managed View. Image Plugins : All tools use the same keyboard shortcuts than PhotoShop. Image Plugins : New option in all Color corrections Tools to show under-exposed and over-exposed areas of corrected picture before to apply corrections. Image Plugins : Brightness/Contrast/Gamma : settings value excursion are the same than Photoshop. Image Plugins : Add Border Tool : add new option to preserve aspect ratio. Border Width can be set in pixels or in percents accordinly with this setting. Image Plugins : Perspective Tool : add a grid and vertical/horizontal guide lines. Image Plugins : Ratio-crop Tool : usability improvements from Jaromir Malenko. Image Plugins : Auto Color Correction Tool : add new filter to perform auto-exposure corrections. Image Editor : Add new advanced options to keep ratio and alignment about print pictures. Image Editor : Add 2 new advanced options to show under-exposed or over-exposed pixels. Image Editor : Remove View->Histogram menu option. We have a better histogram available in sidebar. Image Editor : Color profiles are tested now to avoid invalid files. Image Editor : JPEG/PNG/TIFF/JPEG2000 file save settings are now available in File Save dialog. Image Editor : JPEG file save settings include a red warning about this lossy compression image format with a link to wikipedia to aware users. General : Native slideshow tool : new option to slide an album tree in recursive mode. General : Native slideshow tool : add capability to print photograph informations during slide. General : Native slideshow tool : preaparing slideshow is now cancelable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins BUGFIX FROM KDE BUGZILLA (alias B.K.O | http://bugs.kde.org): 001 ==> 115157 : Usability: Image comments/tags dialog: hard to find/see all already selected tags (and to 'de'select them). 002 ==> 132309 : Wish: enhance video support in digiKam. 003 ==> 115153 : Assigns tags not only to selected images with drag and drop. 004 ==> 131743 : Comments and tag edit widgets should retain focus when changing image. 005 ==> 140412 : Comments/Tags sidebar steels focus. 006 ==> 137491 : Editor image cache not flush when an image is modified outside digiKam. 007 ==> 138949 : Save/overwrite fails: wrong dialog. 008 ==> 139197 : Crash during import of raw imagefiles (DNG). 009 ==> 139313 : UTF-8 image comments are mangled when input from image editor. 010 ==> 136903 : If partition gets full during camera/card copy there is no warning and empty files are created. 011 ==> 133955 : Rating search: less, equal, and larger comparison. 012 ==> 139547 : Tag hierarchy automatic fill. 013 ==> 138816 : gpcamera.cpp compile failure CameraList camList. 014 ==> 93542 : Improvements to digiKam print interface. 015 ==> 139658 : Tiff generated by photoshop is either ignored by digiKam image browser, or kills digiKam when regenerating the database. 016 ==> 102032 : Wish: rating system for photos, show/hide/sort by rating. 017 ==> 111446 : Bad behaviour when out of disk space. 018 ==> 133516 : Tags set in Comments/Tags end up on the wrong picture. 019 ==> 140136 : Aspect ratio crop and selection widget improvements. 020 ==> 131600 : Set tag for multiple selection of images. 021 ==> 137545 : Helper lines / cross wanted. 023 ==> 131170 : Add grid/auxiliary lines for perspective correction tool. 024 ==> 138158 : Allow to edit multiple image tags/comments at same time. 025 ==> 140234 : Thumbnail click default action. 026 ==> 135141 : Border size in pixel. 027 ==> 137696 : Border extent should not follow image aspect ratio. 028 ==> 138444 : More clear/consistent color management terminology. 029 ==> 140176 : Showfoto crashes when selecting a filter. 030 ==> 130237 : Typos in digiKam plugin files. 031 ==> 138925 : External modules config dialog lacks a select all button. 032 ==> 140038 : digiKam Image Editor crash on right click after changing toolbar. 033 ==> 139766 : Crash when displaying EXIF metadata with Unicode comment 034 ==> 130017 : Wish: batch operation to save existing comments in the files. 035 ==> 140320 : View menu should better fit after Edit. 036 ==> 127617 : "Toggle Fullscreen" should be located in "View" menu instead of "Settings" menu. 038 ==> 139264 : digiKam sorts pictures with wrong exif tag. 039 ==> 140417 : Crash digiKam when delete image. 040 ==> 110514 : Enhanced selection, refactored histogram. 041 ==> 140933 : Typo: Album Library Path. 042 ==> 141190 : digikam crash when invalid ICM file at color profile directory and you enter into PREFERENCES->COLOR SPACE PROFILES. 043 ==> 123649 : JPEG/PNG quality settings at the "save" dialog. 044 ==> 116518 : Use KIPI plugin for displaying slideshows. 045 ==> 140304 : Start slideshow from the current image. 046 ==> 140303 : slideshow must be relocated to View menu from tools menu. 047 ==> 137503 : Tags are not written to image file automatically. 048 ==> 136254 : Editing tags does not change IPTC-keywords. 049 ==> 135655 : Proper full screen mode (no menu, toolbar, statusbar, sidebars). 050 ==> 142088 : Build fails when libkexiv2 is in $PREFIX, but not in $TDEDIR or standard include directories 051 ==> 140227 : remove or modify D&D tags menu from icon view area (improvements, not finished) 052 ==> 142109 : Turn under/over exposure display on/off by click on corresponding icons 053 ==> 141663 : Keep getting prompted to Apply Comments 054 ==> 139024 : Camera GUI new items selection doesn't work 055 ==> 139547 : Tag hierarchy automatic fill 056 ==> 141626 : Bugs in german translation 057 ==> 141786 : Confirmation dialog during rename to existing file does n... 058 ==> 141924 : Tags preview not updated in last image of album 059 ==> 141934 : Incorrect capitalized string: "back to album" 060 ==> 141961 : Long comments truncated in slideshow