Notables changes since last packaged version (0.7.1)
Image filter : new Gaussian blur and Channel mixer filters.
Image Editor : Add new copy action to copy current selection to clipboard.
You can paste this selection in other application like Kolorpaint, Gimp,
Kword, etc...
Image Editor : Undoing actions capability.
Image Editor : Usability improvements of ratio-crop tool. Add Rule Third
Lines guides for to help users to compose a photograph.
Image Editor : Replaced native dynamic guibuilder system with kde xmlgui one
for plugins. Toolbars and shortcuts are now configurable within the Image
Editor.
Image Editor : Fix PNG compression and JPEG quality min and max values
(Gimp/Photoshop like)
Image Editor : New Stretch Contrast color filter.
Image Editor : New classic Black and White photograph tonal convertion:
Neutral BW, Sepia, Selenium, Platinum, Cold-Tone, Brown.
Image Editor : added action icons.
New splashcreen with animation like KDevelop.
Key new features since last packaged version (0.6.2):
- Reliable and fast database (sqlite) backend for saving metadata
- Tagging support for photos.
- Tags are grouped together as virtual folders shown similar to albums.
- Extensive drag and drop support for tagging and moving/copying photos
- Enhanced camera interface with support for automatic photo rotation and
renaming of photos while downloading.
- EXIF support with optional oriented display of thumbnails and photos using
camera provided information
- Customizable thumbnails for albums and tags
- Support for nested albums
- Tooltips providing detailed photo information
- Themeing support for digiKam
- KIPI support for enhanced plugin support. KIPI is an initiative between
various KDE image management applications to provide a common architecture
for implementing image based plugins.
- New fast image viewer and editor which uses its own plugin architecture to
provide various additional functionalities in addition to the usual
gamma/contrast/brightness adjustments, rotation, resize functions.
Some of the plugins supplied with digiKam are:
Histogram Viewer
Red Eye correction
Black & White and Sepia conversion
Blurring and sharpening
RGB color correction
Hue/Saturation/Lightness correction
Normalize and Equalize
- Improved thumbnail loading speed.
- Unified Image properties dialog - with separate pages for file information,
EXIF and Histogram
- Threaded histogram calculation for better responsiveness
- Navigation of albums (based on navigation history) using forward and back
button
- Auto album creation using date based album names while downloading photos
from the camera.
- Load and display image formats which imlib2 doesnt support, but kde does.
- Generate thumbnails for raw images using Dave Coffins dcraw tool.
- New standalone photo viewer named showFoto for kde using digiKams image
viewer canvas.
- New commandline option "--detect-camera" to detect connected cameras and to
launch the camera window on startup.
- New Aspect Ratio Constrained Crop plugin
- Free Rotation tool is now a plugin and has guides to help with rotation.
PKGREVISIONs of packages including it, because the recent update of
libexif changed the major version number of libexif. Noted by dieter
and Jeremy C. Reed on tech-pkg@.
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
All library names listed by *.la files no longer need to be listed
in the PLIST, e.g., instead of:
lib/libfoo.a
lib/libfoo.la
lib/libfoo.so
lib/libfoo.so.0
lib/libfoo.so.0.1
one simply needs:
lib/libfoo.la
and bsd.pkg.mk will automatically ensure that the additional library
names are listed in the installed package +CONTENTS file.
Also make LIBTOOLIZE_PLIST default to "yes".
