Actually, i'm working with Andreas to improve Exiv2 library, especially to add the Native Language Support.I have backported the Exif tags translations strings from the old libexif library into Exiv2. Also all translation files (.po) from libexif have been merged with Exiv2 to reduce the jobs of future translators.The NLS support will be available to the next Exiv2 release planed at end of december.

You might know that being an Open Source developer in general, and a Scribus developer in particular, allows you to travel all over the world, meet interesting people and have a nice dinner with them. This time I attended the GNOME Live! summit in Boston at the MIT. Thanks to Behdad Esfabod from Pango and [...]

Installing a scanner on linux
Since going back in Toulouse, six months ago, I never took the time to reinstall my good old hp scanner. So I did it, it's really nice to see how linux has improve in the past few years, about a year or two ago, I would have to spend more than an hour to figure out how to configure my linux box to recognize the scanner, now it's really "plug and lets the fun begin".

The actual playing
I am still a little bit old fashion when it comes to photography. But the digital camera (even the best one) aren't even close to the quality and the feel of my silver-film reflex camera. Especially when it comes to black and white pictures. I still have a digital camera to take all the pictures without considering how costly is silver-film.

My new kipi-plugin to edit metadata is now completed.
Exif and IPTC metadata can be edited from scratch. Of course this plugin is based on Exiv2 library.At this url, you can see all editor dialog tabs. This plugin will be available on next stable kipi-plugins release. This plugin do not support yet XMP. In fact when Exiv2 wil support this metadata format, i will update the plugin.Also, actually only JPEG file can be edited. PNG, TIFF and RAW files will be supported in writting mode at next Exiv2 release.

digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins 0.9.0-beta3 are now published.Next release will be:- 0.9.0-RC (release candidate) during first week of november. The documentation will be frozen for translators.
- 0.9.0-final just before Christmast...

... wether a graphics application support CMYK or not, each time there is an article about this application, there is a lot of comments around CMYK. Each time, the gimp has released a new version, someone would ask "do this,at last, support CMYK ?", or if the question "what application do you miss on linux ?" is raised, someone will answer photoshop because of its support of CMYK.

So now, krita supports well CMYK since 1.5 (actually some CMYK support was introduced in 1.4, but as a demo), Monday, we have release a new version, and I can see some comments about how useless it is to support CMYK (wether it is on slashdot or the dot).

Paco working actually on next 0.9.0-beta3 release. Test packages are available at this url. Please report all compilation problems to the "digikam-devel at kde dot org" mailing list.Over 20 bug entries in KDE bugzilla have been fixed with this release. Take a look at the current NEWS file for details.Note to translators: internationalization GUI strings are now frozen.

Since digiKam support a standard metadata format used in photography, we need a tool to edit these informations.Since 2 weeks, i'm working on a new kipi plugin named 'MetadataEdit' to manage EXIF and IPTC embedded informations in pictures.This plugin can edit existing metadata or create new informations from scratch (for example in case of pictures taken with a digital scanner witch don't provide EXIF informations).This plugin can be used in single or batch mode to set metadata of more than one picture at the same time.Actually, the IPTC editor is fully implemented. EXIF editor still is under developement.