digiKam

digiKam source code port is in progress. After 3 weeks of intensive work, digiKam core library is fully ported and Showfoto is abble to start as a KDE4 program. Of course porting code is not perfect, and Showfoto crash quickly. Layout of dialog ... [More] and sidebar need to be cleaned duing of several changes in QT4 and KDE4 API. Porting an application KDE3 to KDE4 is not a simple task and require time to do regression tests indeep. Also, KDE4 API are not yet frozen and cause several troubles for developpers... [Less]

Dear digiKam users, the digiKam team is happy to announce a new release of the advanced digital photo management application for linux. In addition to various bug-fixes and improvements, several new features have been added. Some important ... [More] improvements/changes are: a light-table to quickly compare similar images side by side Thumbnail size in the album view can be adjusted continuously, details. Image Editor: reorganized menu structure Image Editor: new pan tool Image Editor: new Sharpness Editor (replacing Unsharp Mask, Refocus, Sharpen) [Less]

Recently, digiKam port to KDE4 have been started. Laurent Montel, a KDE core developer will help digiKam team in this task. Thanks to him... The shared libraries libkipi, libkdcraw, and libkexiv2 are already ported. I have also ported 3 kipi-plugins: ... [More] WallPaper, TimeAdjust, and JPEGLossLess. The goal of digiKam KDE4 port is to have a stable release at KDE4 release date. In svn, we have now 2 branches where we works: KDE3 source code is in branches/extragear/kde3 KDE4 source code is in trunk/extragear [Less]

Dear all digiKam fans! Some minor regression bugs led us to another release, the 0.9.2-beta3 release including an improved light table (full size images). The 0.9.2 final release is on track for mid June publishing. This beta3 version is rock-solid ... [More] , don't hesitate to use it for production. In order to make digiKam 0.9.2-beta3 compile you need to compile and install libkexiv2 and libkdcraw first (unless you complied them for beta[1,2] already). The library tarballs can be downloaded from (1) SourceForge. The digiKam tarball documentation can be downloaded from (2) SourceForge as well. [Less]

Dear all digiKam fans! The success story continues with the 0.9.2-beta2 release including a new light table (compare feature). The 0.9.2 final release is on track for mid June publishing. This beta2 version is rock-solid, don't hesitate to use it for ... [More] production. Beta1 and beta2 are rather used to improve usability than debugging. In order to make digiKam 0.9.2-beta2 compile you need to compile and install libkexiv2 and libkdcraw first (unless you complied them for beta1 already). The library tarballs can be downloaded from (1) SourceForge. The digiKam tarball documentation can be downloaded from (2) SourceForge as well. [Less]