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digikam/digikam/NEWS.0.9.1

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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.
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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