Dear all digiKam fans and users!The digiKam development team is happy to release 0.9.3-beta1. The digiKam tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge as well.
(0.9.3 will probably be the last release before we will switch over to KDE4 which will see a totally revamped digiKam.)New features of the camera interface:

• The camera interface is now used to import new images into collections.
• There are
  

Today marks a big achievement in the development of Scribus 1.3.5. As of now, we no longer use Qt3 or its support classes. YAY. A big job - one that started out as very simple but right at the end took awhile to get finalised. Its a nice feeling to have that sorted and now [...]

This week end, the team have voted to choose the splashscreens used with next release. You can seen the pictures below:

digiKam 0.9.3 (KDE3) : Laurenz Gamper



Showfoto 0.7.0 (KDE3) : Joel Koop

Recently, i redesigned the camera interface to be more homogenous with the rest of digiKam (album view, light table and image editor)



The old implementation used a simple dialog to host camera interface contents. This way been an huge limitation to add new options for the future. Also, the dialog layout been not optimum.

Now, we use a status bar, a tool bar and a standard menu. On status bar, a widget provide a speed way to change thumbs size. Also, this version is able to show XMP metadata.

If you read this web site regulary, you will have seen a poll to survey user wishes.

The last one is this entry. As you can see, XMP metadata support is on the top of the list...

Andreas Huggel (Exiv2 library author) has work recently to support XMP and provided a first alpha version to test. I have patched libkexiv2 and digiKam for KDE4 to support it.

Well now, digiKam and Showfoto are able to display XMP contents on Metadata sidebar !

Friday, 27 Jul 2007 02:00 GMT As Inkscape is constantly being developed and improved, there is always new features and improvements being implemented. Three of the cooler improvements are: On canvas gradient editing, selection by touch, and the new flood fill tool. Each of these new features can be read about in the Inkscape Wiki or you can install a development version of inkscape, or you can view the following screencasts that briefly demonstrate the new improvements.

Monday, 23 Jul 2007 02:00 GMT Pirates Boat by yeKcim

With the next releases of the digiKam, the time has come to find the ideal splash-screens to go with it. Now is your chance to join the ranks of the precious few who have had their artwork associated with a release of digiKam!

SplashScreen is a simple way for users to contribute to digiKam project. The pictures must be correctly exposed and composed, and the subject must be choosen using a real photographer inspiration.

The next stable release 0.9.3 of digiKam is planed to september. This version will includes few bug fix for KDE3 envirronement. For this release, we need 2 new splash-screens dedicaced to digiKam and Showfoto startup.

Today, Marcel has polished libkipi to KDE4 port implementation to be able to load kipi-plugins from kipi host applications. digiKam for KDE4 is now fully capable to load kipi-plugins. It's the first kipi host which can do it...



Two kipi-plugins are already fully ported : TimeAdjust and JPEGLossLess.It will be time now to port all othe

Thursday, 19 Jul 2007 05:30 GMT Cordless Phone
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