digiKam

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 ... [More] 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 read more [Less]

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 ... [More] 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. read more [Less]

A wiki allows users to easily create, edit and link web pages. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites, power community websites, and are also becoming common by companies to provide affordable and effective intranets or for use in ... [More] knowledge management. All major open-source projects have a Wiki page. Now digiKam has one as well... It waits for your contributions, so please add them here... Thanks in advance for your help! [Less]

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. ... [More] When the corresponding option is activated in the view menu, selecting an album from the sidebar will display the images of the current album and all its sub-albums, grouped by album. By this it is easier to navigate around in the albums hierarchy without changing the album focus on right side bar. Below is a screenshot of this new feature in action. read more [Less]

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 ... [More] 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. My favorite killer feature of git is: "git grep". It is really fast, much faster than simply grepping on the svn source directory. I dont know why, but I like that even more. One annoying point in the beginning was the "svn up" equivalent. "git-svn rebase" requires all local changes committed, which "svn up" does not. Git's features to the rescue: Create a temporary commit, rebase, and reset the commit afterwards. I added this to my ~/.bashrc: #drop-in replacement for svn up function git-svn-up { git-commit -a -m "Temporary commit" && git-svn rebase && git-reset --mixed HEAD^ } #use after you have resolved conflicts function git-svn-rebase-continue { git-rebase --continue && git-reset --mixed HEAD^ } read more [Less]

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 read more

Since september I work with Arnd to implement new main features on digiKam for KDE3. Coming up with 0.9.3 beta3 release, new advanced tools on album view status bar have been added to filter album contents. New filters are listed below: read more

The digiKam releases 0.9.3-beta3 and its English documentation. The tarballs can preferably be downloaded from SourceForge. New Features The main window has yet another live filter: The new string search filters the current view (album/collection ... [More] , date, tags, search) on substrings within file name, caption, and tags. This feature is really convenient and completes the file type filter and rating filter introduced in previous 0.9.3-betas. Several usability improvements in the Light Table A green tint has been added to the b&w conversion plugin read more [Less]

I noted that thanks to clee I have been added to planet.kde.org now as well. This requires just another "Hello to the planet" message to introduce me briefly. I am one of the developers of Digikam for about two years now (it's really so long already? ... [More] Can't believe. Time is running.). Main fields of my work have been e.g. multithreaded image loading and recently the database upgrade we are currently busy with for our KDE4 version. Yes, not much is more sweet than a mutex and a cond var. In daily life I am a medical student at the university of Essen, Germany, in the 4th year now, learning for exams and working on my MD thesis in physiological chemistry. No, no computer science, physics or mathematics background here ;-) [Less]

The digiKam team is proud to release 0.9.3-beta2. The tarball can also be downloaded from SourceForge. This is not only a bug fix but, due to the development in the KDE4 branch, a few nice new features have been backported to this KDE3 release. New ... [More] Features Two quick filters have been added to the status bar of the main window: A mime-type selector to filter for one of JPEG, PNG, TIFF, RAW, movies or audio files A rating filter to select rated images A new navigation feature: whenever a thumbnail is selected in the main window you can immediately jump (Go To) to any other of the views where this image is a member of. [Less]