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"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" is probably the most respected rule in the development of Krita. But now that we have made three major releases, and even if the development version is under heavy refactoring, most of the framework is in good shape, and now is time to start optimizing. Which is something on which I have started to work actively in September, after the feature freeze for 1.6, some new progress will be included in the upcoming 1.6.1 (mostly in the convolution code, the painting, and gradients).
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| submitted by land0 on November 25, 2006 | |
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The digiKam team is proud to announce the first release candidate of digiKam 0.9.0 and DigikamImagePlugins 0.9.0.The 0.9 series has been under heavy development since November 2005 (more than 200 files in KDE bugzilla have been closed) and offers you the opportunity to test and enjoy a variety of new features, additions and improvements.The source for digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins 0.9.0-rc1 is available at this url
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| submitted by land0 on November 21, 2006 | |
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One of the oldest feature requests for Scribus have been character styles and hierarchical styles. These are now finally implemented in Scribus 1.3.4cvs. Also Tsoots has done some good work on the new Style Manager, which replaces the old Paragraph Styles dialog, and he will hopefully describe it in a blog entry soon. I’ll take [...]
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| submitted by land0 on November 19, 2006 | |
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In the past days (also weeks...), we added more informations to the Digikam website. Browse it !What's new
- New support page
- New contrib page
- Updated contact page
- Updated Download/SVN page (see below)
- More screenshots
- New about/features for the 0.9 series
- More FAQ entries
Test the latest SVN release
There are new scripts in the Download/SVN page to download, compile and install digikam in your home directory without conflicting with your standard digikam version...
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| submitted by land0 on November 17, 2006 | |
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Yes, digikam runs perfectly on a PowerBook G4 :)But, wait... It's not under Mac OS X, but under linux/ppc (Ubuntu 6.0.6 powerpc version).
You will have to wait a bit more to have digikam under Mac OS X...
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| submitted by land0 on November 17, 2006 | |
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One of our translators and contributors mentioned to me that they had comments to the effect that Scribus is a “closed shop”. In other words, the team is really not open to adding new developers and contributors. So let’s dispel that rumour right now.It is not true. Not now, not before, never.To an outsider, it [...]
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| submitted by land0 on November 16, 2006 | |
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Karbon in trunk has gained an amazing new shape (and because it’s a Flake shape every other KOffice application can or will be able to use it, too.) Starting out with a simple star, Jan Hambrecht has created these wonderful objects:
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| submitted by theobroma on November 13, 2006 | |
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Since one week, i'm working hard on Exiv2 project with Andreas to implement Native Language Support (NLS).The internationalization architecture is complete, and i18n source code done to 80%. There is a screenshot of digiKam using Exiv2-NLS in French at this url.The internationalization of strings from Exiv2 is uncomplete of course. I have backported all i18n strings from the old libexif library and merged the .po files from this libs with the Exiv2 strings. Actually, there is only 4 languages availalble: DE, FR, ES, and PL.
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| submitted by land0 on November 8, 2006 | |
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I have been thinking for a long time about a replacement for my old dying mascot, a vectorial happy chap with raising hand, which I used in the new skin for my web site that I have been developing for the past four years, but never find the time to finish, in other word, I wanted to replace a vapor-mascot. And today I figure out that a sheep would be a cool mascot, so I think my dreams and drawings will be filled with sheeps this days. And what better start for this, than trying watercolor ?
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| submitted by land0 on November 5, 2006 | |
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Oxygen has one color palette with two parts. “Normal” colors have sober tonalities of the most needed colors. These are used mostly for mimetypes, folders, system applications and actions. Vibrant colors are more saturated used to emphasize important action icons on a toolbar, for rich media mimetypes, for application icons and, generally speaking, used when there is need to focus the attention of the user on a particular element, helping the user to find his way by following a “subliminal” color language.
 To download the Oxygen color palette for the Gimp: right click this link, then click Save As. To use this palette in Inkscape:
1) In your .inkscape folder make another folder called palettes.
2) Put the oxygen.gpl file in that folder.
3) Restart Inkscape
4) Select the Oxygen palette in the Swatches
dialog (Ctrl+Shift+W).
The Oxygen color palette is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. Thanks to Nuno Pinheiro for giving us permission to publish the Oxygen color palette on this site.
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| submitted by KA.o web team on November 5, 2006 | |
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