1digiKam 0.9.1 - Release date: 2007-03-04 2 3********************************************************************************************** 4NEW FEATURES : 5 6General : New native JPEG2000 image loader using Jasper library witch 7 can support 16 bits color depth pictures. 8General : New optimized layout to show Comments & Tags side bar contents. 9General : Tags View from Comments & Tags side bar support drag & drop. 10General : New Batch tool to sync all images metadata (EXIF/IPTC) with 11 digiKam database content. 12General : Add a status bar to Album Gui with a progress bar, text bar, 13 and navigate bar. 14General : New native SlideShow tool witch use the Image Preview feature. 15 RAW files can be slided very fast. 16General : Native slideshow tool : new option to slide an album tree in recursive mode. 17General : Native slideshow tool : add capability to print photograph information during slide. 18General : Native slideshow tool : preaparing slideshow is now cancelable. 19 20AlbumGUI : Improvement of pop-up menu of Tags Filter View and Comment & Tags 21 about auto selection/deselection of parents/childs tags in Tags treeview. 22AlbumGUI : Main Root album show a Welcome page for new users. 23AlbumGUI : Video files can be previewed using an embedded instance of 24 default media player. 25AlbumGUI : Preview picture mode use a memory cache to speed-up loading. 26AlbumGUI : Preview picture mode pride a context pop-up menu. 27AlbumGUI : Comments & Tags now support multiple selection of items to 28 apply properties. 29AlbumGUI : New option to set the action to do when user right click on 30 picture thumb: Load on Image Editor or Show an embeded preview. 31AlbumGUI : Prefer Exif DateTimeOriginal for sorting images 32 (DateTimeDigitized and DateTime only used as fallback) 33AlbumGUI : Improvement of pop-up menu of Tags Filter View and Comment & Tags about 34 auto selection/deselection of parents/childs tags in Tags treeview. 35AlbumGUI : Main Root album show a Welcome page for new users (like Kmail or Konqueror). 36AlbumGUI : Video files can be previewed using an embedded instance of default desktop 37 media player. 38AlbumGUI : Preview picture mode use a memory cache to speed-up loading. 39AlbumGUI : Preview picture mode pride a context pop-up menu. 40AlbumGUI : Comments & Tags now support multiple selection of items to apply properties. 41AlbumGUI : New option to set the action to do when user right click on picture thumb: 42 Load on Image Editor or Show an embeded preview. 43AlbumGUI : Prefer Exif DateTimeOriginal for sorting images (DateTimeDigitized 44 and DateTime only used as fallback) 45 46Image Editor : All tools remember settings between sessions. 47Image Editor : All tools render properly preview of image using Color Managed View. 48Image Editor : All tools use the same keyboard shortcuts than PhotoShop. 49Image Editor : New option in all Color corrections Tools to show under-exposed 50 and over-exposed areas of corrected picture before to apply corrections. 51Image Editor : Brightness/Contrast/Gamma : settings value excursion are the same 52 than Photoshop. 53Image Editor : Add Border Tool : add new option to preserve aspect ratio. Border Width 54 can be set in pixels or in percents accordinly with this setting. 55Image Editor : Perspective Tool : add a grid and vertical/horizontal guide lines. 56Image Editor : Ratio-crop Tool : usability improvements from Jaromir Malenko. 57Image Editor : Auto Color Correction Tool : add new filter to perform 58 auto-exposure corrections. 59Image Editor : all tools : capabilty to remember settings between tool 60 sessions to store configuration in a settings file. 61Image Editor : Add new advanced options to keep ratio and alignment about print pictures. 62Image Editor : Add 2 new advanced options to show under-exposed or over-exposed pixels. 63Image Editor : Remove View->Histogram menu option. We have a better histogram 64 available in sidebar. 65Image Editor : Color profiles are tested now to avoid invalid files. 66Image Editor : JPEG/PNG/TIFF/JPEG2000 file save settings are now available in 67 File Save dialog. 68Image Editor : JPEG file save settings include a red warning about this lossy 69 compression image format with a link to wikipedia to aware users. 70Image Editor : All tools remember settings between sessions. 71Image Editor : All tools render properly preview of image using Color Managed View. 72Image Editor : All tools use the same keyboard shortcuts than PhotoShop. 73Image Editor : New option in all Color corrections Tools to show under-exposed and 74 over-exposed areas of corrected picture before to apply corrections. 75Image Editor : Brightness/Contrast/Gamma : settings value excursion are the same 76 than Photoshop. 77Image Editor : Add Border Tool : add new option to preserve aspect ratio. Border Width can be set 78 in pixels or in percents accordinly with this setting. 79Image Editor : Perspective Tool : add a grid and vertical/horizontal guide lines. 80Image Editor : Ratio-crop Tool : usability improvements from Jaromir Malenko. 81Image Editor : Auto Color Correction Tool : add new filter to perform auto-exposure corrections. 82Image Editor : Add new advanced options to keep ratio and alignment about print pictures. 83Image Editor : Add 2 new advanced options to show under-exposed or over-exposed pixels. 84Image Editor : Remove View->Histogram menu option. We have a better histogram available in sidebar. 85Image Editor : Color profiles are tested now to avoid invalid files. 86Image Editor : JPEG/PNG/TIFF/JPEG2000 file save settings are now available in File Save dialog. 87Image Editor : JPEG file save settings include a red warning about this lossy compression image 88 format with a link to wikipedia to aware users. 89 90CameraGUI : New option to set metadata DateTime/PhotographerId/Copyright Exif and/or IPTC tags 91 on the fly. 92CameraGUI : JPEG Exif thumbnail and Iptc image preview are recomputed during Exif Auto-rotation. 93CameraGUI : digiKam theme support. 94 95********************************************************************************************** 96BUGFIXES: 97 98001 ==> 115157 - Usability: Image comments/tags dialog: hard to find/see all already selected tags (and to 'de'select them). 99002 ==> 132309 - Wish: enhance video support in digiKam. 100003 ==> 115153 - Assigns tags not only to selected images with drag and drop. 101004 ==> 131743 - Comments and tag edit widgets should retain focus when changing image. 102005 ==> 140412 - Comments/Tags sidebar steels focus. 103006 ==> 137491 - Editor image cache not flush when an image is modified outside digiKam. 104007 ==> 138949 - Save/overwrite fails: wrong dialog. 105008 ==> 139197 - Crash during import of raw imagefiles (DNG). 106009 ==> 139313 - UTF-8 image comments are mangled when input from image editor. 107010 ==> 136903 - If partition gets full during camera/card copy there is no warning and empty files are created. 108011 ==> 133955 - Rating search: less, equal, and larger comparison. 109012 ==> 139547 - Tag hierarchy automatic fill. 110013 ==> 138816 - gpcamera.cpp compile failure CameraList camList. 111014 ==> 093542 - Improvements to digiKam print interface. 112015 ==> 139658 - Tiff generated by photoshop is either ignored by digiKam image browser, or kills digiKam when regenerating the database. 113016 ==> 102032 - Wish: rating system for photos, show/hide/sort by rating. 114017 ==> 111446 - Bad behaviour when out of disk space. 115018 ==> 133516 - Tags set in Comments/Tags end up on the wrong picture. 116019 ==> 140136 - Aspect ratio crop and selection widget improvements. 117020 ==> 131600 - Set tag for multiple selection of images. 118021 ==> 137545 - Helper lines / cross wanted. 119023 ==> 131170 - Add grid/auxiliary lines for perspective correction tool. 120024 ==> 138158 - Allow to edit multiple image tags/comments at same time. 121025 ==> 140234 - Thumbnail click default action. 122026 ==> 135141 - Border size in pixel. 123027 ==> 137696 - Border extent should not follow image aspect ratio. 124028 ==> 138444 - More clear/consistent color management terminology. 125029 ==> 140176 - Showfoto crashes when selecting a filter. 126030 ==> 130237 - Typos in digiKam tool files. 127031 ==> 138925 - External modules config dialog lacks a select all button. 128032 ==> 140038 - digiKam Image Editor crash on right click after changing toolbar. 129033 ==> 139766 - Crash when displaying EXIF metadata with Unicode comment 130034 ==> 130017 - Wish: batch operation to save existing comments in the files. 131035 ==> 140320 - View menu should better fit after Edit. 132036 ==> 127617 - "Toggle Fullscreen" should be located in "View" menu instead of "Settings" menu. 133038 ==> 139264 - digiKam sorts pictures with wrong exif tag. 134039 ==> 140417 - Crash digiKam when delete image. 135040 ==> 110514 - Enhanced selection, refactored histogram. 136041 ==> 140933 - Typo: Album Library Path. 137042 ==> 141190 - digikam crash when invalid ICM file at color profile directory and you enter into PREFERENCES->COLOR SPACE PROFILES. 138043 ==> 123649 - JPEG/PNG quality settings at the "save" dialog. 139044 ==> 116518 - Use tool for displaying slideshows. 140045 ==> 140304 - Start slideshow from the current image. 141046 ==> 140303 - slideshow must be relocated to View menu from tools menu. 142047 ==> 137503 - Tags are not written to image file automatically. 143048 ==> 136254 - Editing tags does not change IPTC-keywords. 144049 ==> 135655 - Proper full screen mode (no menu, toolbar, statusbar, sidebars). 145050 ==> 142088 - Build fails when MetadataEngine is in $PREFIX, but not standard include directories 146051 ==> 140227 - remove or modify D&D tags menu from icon view area (improvements, not finished) 147052 ==> 142109 - Turn under/over exposure display on/off by click on corresponding icons 148053 ==> 141663 - Keep getting prompted to Apply Comments 149054 ==> 139024 - Camera GUI new items selection doesn't work 150055 ==> 139547 - Tag hierarchy automatic fill 151056 ==> 141626 - Bugs in german translation 152057 ==> 141786 - Confirmation dialog during rename to existing file does n... 153058 ==> 141924 - Tags preview not updated in last image of album 154059 ==> 141934 - Incorrect capitalized string: "back to album" 155060 ==> 141961 - Long comments truncated in slideshow 156