... is a stable development environment.

Tonight I wanted to make a video of a new features of Krita in action, one I had just finished on my desktop. Problem is that my desktop is running OpenSuSE, and xvidcap doesn't work on it, it just hang. So I have to use my laptop + kubuntu for that kind of stuff. Problems is that after updating it Krita, it comes out that I had to update everything up to kdelibs, and hour and half later, I am still just watching stuff getting build. That's why, my main wishes for KDE4.0 is that I can, at last, go back to development workflow of 1.x, and have

I am please to announce the immediate availability of Krita-Plugins 1.6.3.

This new release includes

• a contraction filter (increase the transparency area over the color area)
• perlin and swarming noise filter
• seperate horizontal/vertical settings for the fast blur filter

More information and download (with package for OpenSuSE 10.3 and Kubuntu 7.10) a

The digiKam team releases 0.9.3-rc1. The tarball can preferably be downloaded from SourceForge.There is again a new very practical feature integrated:
In the Albums/Tags/Searches/TagsFilter sidebars the is a live filter at the
bottom that lets you search for a string in Albums/Tags/Searches/TagsFilter
hierarchy, much as amarok does it int he collections.A word on stability. I know that many of you wait until a 'stable' sees the
day of light in order to upgrade digiKam. I will not tell you to do
otherwise. But! I update digikam daily per cron job from svn since 4 years

One of the things which is perceived as a stumbling block to using Linux as a designer’s platform is the lack of font management tools. Most graphics professionals started or at some time worked on a Mac and often enough MacOS 9 or earlier.So, while font management is nowhere as difficult on Linux as [...]

Since Krita 1.5 we are capable to open HDR (High-Dynamic-Range) image and do basic visualization and some manipulation. But, we want to make Krita 2 a fully capable HDR image editor, from creation, manipulation and conversion. For creation, since a while we are capable to create HDR from a bracketing of LDR (Low-Dynamic-Range) photo, for conversion, I have started to add some tonemapping algorithms coming either from last year OpenICC google summer of code or from pfstmo, but that's a story for an other time.

Another great feature, which users have been awaiting for a long time, is the search text filter everywhere in digiKam for KDE3. It will be available with the 0.9.3-rc1 release.

Like you can see in screenshot below new text fields are available in left and right sidebar tabs :

• Album Folder view.
• Tags Folder view.
• Search Folder view.
• Tags Filter view.

If you enter a text in this widget, digiKam will parse tree-view contents and will display all matching results witch include this string. If something is found, field become green, else red.
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A wiki allows users to easily create, edit and link web pages. Wikis are used for collaborative websites, power community websites, and are gaining high interest from commercial companies to provide affordable and effective intranets. It is all about knowledge management.Major open-source projects have a wiki page - now digiKam has one as too... It waits for your contribution, so please add them here...Thanks in advance for your help!

Another great feature, which users have been awaiting for a long time, is the recursive display of albums in the icon view. Together with Arnd this feature has been implemented in digiKam for KDE3. It will be available with the 0.9.3-rc1 release.

When the corresponding option is activated in the view menu,selecting an album from the sidebar will display the images of thecurrent album and all its sub-albums, grouped by album.By this it is easier to navigate around in the albumshierarchy without changing the album focus on right side bar.Below is a screenshot of this new feature in action.
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Anyone watching digikam's commit messages (I dont know if that's anyone except the core team) might have noticed that since some time I tend to commit in bursts, several within a few seconds, but only a few times a week. The reason I am using git-svn now for my local working copy.I started with that when I was on holidays and had no internet connection for two weeks. Then git-svn allowed me to commit offline, creating a de-facto local branch and merging later.
I really like this. I can commit when I want, before things are ready to publish, and complete it later, still having good commit messages and splitting the commit so that the others can still review and the patch does not get overly big.

Arnd and me worked recently on new navigation modes between physical and virtual albums. Depending of the context, 3 goto modes are available in all views from main digiKam interface:

Goto Album

Goto Date
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