In svn, Luka has added a new feature to change the icons size every where in sidebars (album view, date view, tags view, filter view, etc...). There is a new option in Setup General dialog page.Personally, i have added a new slider on the status bar to control finely the size of album thumbnails "à la iphoto". There is a fresh screenshot at this url

For next digiKam 0.9.2 release, planed around June 07, DigikamImagePlugins package will disappear as a separate package.They have been merged into svn during this week. I have been waiting to do it since a long time. After a discussion with digiKam team members (including some translators) on the mailing list, we have decided to perform the merging now. The reasons are listed below :- To solve usability issues in digiKam image editor. Some tools provided by DigikamImagePlugins are duplicate with core editor tool and bloat menu entries. Especially, these tools have been fused :

In digiKam 0.9.2, i have work on the editor black and white converter to simulate the analog films sensitivity.The way to do it is to use a conversion table of Gimp Channel Mixer for each film. Like digiKam Channel Mixer is a port to 16 bits of Gimp implementation, it have been easy to do...The tool dialog provide also a new slider to set the amount of Black and White Lens Filter.If you love Black and White photograph, you will love the new version of this tool...

On svn, i have updated (re-writted in fact) the CImg::Greycstoration algorithm interface to the last stable release available.Advantage : the algorithm is more flexible and can be updated easily (it have been integrated into CImg core). The old implementation of my interface hardcoded the algorithm directly in digiKam core...I have work hard with the CImg author to polish the alorithm implementation, especially about to fork the computation on more than one CPU and to clean up the multithreading management.The new algorithm is faster than old (around 2-3x). Restoration, Inpainting and Blowup plugin speed-up now !

On bugzilla, some users wish to have a tool to naviguate speedly over large pictures in editor... The solution coded in svn and available for next 0.9.2 release is a new pan icon widget tool.A button have been add on the right/bottom corner of canvas between the two scroll bars.There is a screenshot of the tool in action at this url

digiKam 0.9.2 is in the way...I'm working hard in svn to provide new features for next release. I have especially re-written the Red Eyes Correction tool to work like all similar non-free tools available under Windows...The new tool provide a way to blur the eye pupil and colorize the content with a dedicaced tint! Also, you can see a preview of the correction apply to picture on the tool dialog.You can see a preview of the new tool in action in the screenshot sectionWith this new tool version, you can forget the black hole eyes on your pictures...

Here is my chance as the primary program administrator to break out the good news. As of today we are in the GSoC 2007 program. Prospective student GSoC developers are encouraged to check out our ideas page and start working on their GSoC plan. See End-to-end Publishing Solution plan for a first example. Of course, [...]

After two release candidates the digiKam team is proud again to present a major improvement to digiKam and its plugins. The many new features are highlighted below. For more information and resolved issues we kindly refer you to the Changelog.The digiKam developer team thanks everybody who has gone through the pains of compiling, has been helping finding bugs and keep digiKam ahead of the pack.The tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. Kubuntu packages will be available on short notice here (thanks to Achim).

After two release candidates the digiKam team is proud again to present a major improvement to digiKam and its plugins. The many new features are highlighted below. For more information and resolved issues we kindly refer you to the Changelog.The digiKam developer team thanks everybody who has gone through the pains of compiling, has been helping finding bugs and keep digiKam ahead of the pack.The tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge. Kubuntu packages will be available on short notice here (thanks to Achim).