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digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins 0.9.1 2007-03-04

NEW FEATURES :

General       : New native JPEG2000 image loader using Jasper library witch 
		can support 16 bits color depth pictures.
General       : New optimized layout to show Comments & Tags side bar contents.
General       : Tags View from Comments & Tags side bar support drag & drop.
General       : New Batch tool to sync all pictures metadata (EXIF/IPTC) with 
		digiKam database content.
General       : Add a status bar to Album Gui with a progress bar, text bar, 
		and navigate bar.
General       : New native SlideShow tool witch use the Image Preview feature. 
		RAW files can be slided very fast.
General       : Sidebars are used at all to display metadata, comments & tags, and file properties.
General       : Removed imlib2 and libkexif depencies. Add Exiv2 and LCMS depencies.
General       : New API in digiKam core named DImg to manage image data in 8 and 16 bits colors depth.
General       : New API in digiKam core named DMetadata to manage image metadata.
General       : Ported all image filter algorithms to new DImg API. Support of 16 bits images.
General       : New metadata viewers based on Exiv2 : Exif viewer, MakerNote viewer, IPTC viewer, 
                and GPS locator.
General       : New ICC profiles profile viewer based on LCMS.
General       : New powerful widget to display CIE color space used by ICC profiles.
General       : New implementation to load/save images file using a separate thread.
General       : Tags/Rating/DateTime/Comments/PhotographersID/Copyrights are now stored in Exif 
                and/or IPTC metadata tags.
General       : digiKam comments are now store in JPEG file to JFIF section, Exif UserComments tags 
                and Caption Iptc tags.
General       : New fast preview pictures mode embedded into main interface.

AlbumGUI      : Improvement of pop-up menu of Tags Filter View and Comment & Tags 
		about auto selection/deselection of parents/childs tags in Tags treeview.
AlbumGUI      : Main Root album show a Welcome page for new users (like Kmail 
		or Konqueror).
AlbumGUI      : Video files can be previewed using an embedded instance of 
		default KDE media player.
AlbumGUI      : Preview picture mode use a memory cache to speed-up loading.
AlbumGUI      : Preview picture mode pride a context pop-up menu.
AlbumGUI      : Comments & Tags now support multiple selection of items to 
		apply properties.
AlbumGUI      : New option to set the action to do when user right click on 
		picture thumb: 
                Load on Image Editor or Show an embeded preview.
AlbumGUI      : Prefer Exif DateTimeOriginal for sorting images 
		(DateTimeDigitized and DateTime only used as fallback)

Image Plugins : All tools remember settings between sessions.
Image Plugins : All tools render properly preview of image using Color Managed View.
Image Plugins : All tools use the same keyboard shortcuts than PhotoShop.
Image Plugins : New option in all Color corrections Tools to show under-exposed 
		and over-exposed areas of corrected picture before to apply corrections.
Image Plugins : Brightness/Contrast/Gamma : settings value excursion are the same 
                than Photoshop.
Image Plugins : Add Border Tool : add new option to preserve aspect ratio. Border Width 
		can be set in pixels or in percents accordinly with this setting.
Image Plugins : Perspective Tool : add a grid and vertical/horizontal guide lines.
Image Plugins : Ratio-crop Tool : usability improvements from Jaromir Malenko.
Image Plugins : Auto Color Correction Tool : add new filter to perform 
		auto-exposure corrections.
Image Plugins : all plugins : capabilty to remember settings between plugin
                sessions to store configuration in a settings file.

Image Editor  : Add new advanced options to keep ratio and alignment about print pictures.
Image Editor  : Add 2 new advanced options to show under-exposed or over-exposed pixels.
Image Editor  : Remove View->Histogram menu option. We have a better histogram 
		available in sidebar.
Image Editor  : Color profiles are tested now to avoid invalid files.
Image Editor  : JPEG/PNG/TIFF/JPEG2000 file save settings are now available in 
		File Save dialog.
Image Editor  : JPEG file save settings include a red warning about this lossy 
		compression image format with a link to wikipedia to aware users.
Image Editor  : Image Editor support 16 bits color depth images (RAW, TIFF, PNG, PNM).
Image Editor  : Complete rewrite of image editor/showfoto gui implementation. Implementation 
                is now common and is more easy to maintain!
Image Editor  : Add a progress bar to Image editor/showfoto about IO image files access.
Image Editor  : Support of ICC color profiles management using LCMS into Image editor/showfoto.
Image Editor  : digiKam setup is now available from Image Editor menu.
Image Editor  : TIFF and JPEG Exif thumbnail are recomputed at saving pictures.
Image Editor  : Iptc preview image are recomputed at saving pictures.

Image Plugins : New powerfull Noise Reduction algorithm based on dcamnoise2 implementation.
Image Plugins : New powerfull Black & White converter tool using curves adjustements.
Image Plugins : New plugin to experiment ICC profiles to perform color corrections into images.
Image Plugins : New preview rendering modes in all color correction image plugins dialogs.
Image Plugins : Redesign/polishing of all image plugins dialogs. Histogram are available at all 
                when it's necessary. All dialogs used in DigikamImagePlugins are common in digiKam 
                core now.
Image Plugins : New zooming capabilities in image plugins dialogs.
Image Plugins : Ported all core image plugins to new DImg API. Support of 16 bits images.
Image Plugins : Ported all DigikamImagePlugins tools to new DImg API. Support of 16 bits images.


Setup         : Advanced settings to load RAW files in Image Editor using external dcraw instance.
Setup         : Setup implementation are now common between Showfoto and digiKam.
Setup         : New Identity setup page to set default strings informations about Photographer and 
                copyright used when IPTC tags are updated.

CameraGUI     : New option to set metadata DateTime/PhotographerId/Copyright Exif and/or IPTC tags 
                on the fly.
CameraGUI     : JPEG Exif thumbnail and Iptc image preview are recomputed during Exif Auto-rotation.
CameraGUI     : digiKam theme support.

Showfoto      : Image properties sidebar support
Showfoto      : All images from a folder can be loaded at the same time.
Showfoto      : Add 16 bits/color/pixel support (DImg API).
Showfoto      : Thumbbar moved to the left by default in vertical mode. Image properties side bar to the 
                right to make a consistant GUI with digiKam main interface.
Showfoto      : Thumbbar can be used to the bottom in horizontal mode.
Showfoto      : New Exif Auto-rotate option like in digiKam ImageEditor.
Showfoto      : New Set Orientation Exif flag to normal after Rotate/Flip like in digiKam ImageEditor.

AlbumGUI      : Improvement of pop-up menu of Tags Filter View and Comment & Tags about
                auto selection/deselection of parents/childs tags in Tags treeview.
AlbumGUI      : Main Root album show a Welcome page for new users (like Kmail or Konqueror).
AlbumGUI      : Video files can be previewed using an embedded instance of default KDE
                media player.
AlbumGUI      : Preview picture mode use a memory cache to speed-up loading.
AlbumGUI      : Preview picture mode pride a context pop-up menu.
AlbumGUI      : Comments & Tags now support multiple selection of items to apply properties.
AlbumGUI      : New option to set the action to do when user right click on picture thumb: 
                Load on Image Editor or Show an embeded preview.
AlbumGUI      : Prefer Exif DateTimeOriginal for sorting images (DateTimeDigitized 
                and DateTime only used as fallback)

Image Plugins : All tools remember settings between sessions.
Image Plugins : All tools render properly preview of image using Color Managed View.
Image Plugins : All tools use the same keyboard shortcuts than PhotoShop.
Image Plugins : New option in all Color corrections Tools to show under-exposed and
                over-exposed areas of corrected picture before to apply corrections.
Image Plugins : Brightness/Contrast/Gamma : settings value excursion are the same 
                than Photoshop.
Image Plugins : Add Border Tool : add new option to preserve aspect ratio. Border Width can be set
                in pixels or in percents accordinly with this setting.
Image Plugins : Perspective Tool : add a grid and vertical/horizontal guide lines.
Image Plugins : Ratio-crop Tool : usability improvements from Jaromir Malenko.
Image Plugins : Auto Color Correction Tool : add new filter to perform auto-exposure corrections.

Image Editor  : Add new advanced options to keep ratio and alignment about print pictures.
Image Editor  : Add 2 new advanced options to show under-exposed or over-exposed pixels.
Image Editor  : Remove View->Histogram menu option. We have a better histogram available in sidebar.
Image Editor  : Color profiles are tested now to avoid invalid files.
Image Editor  : JPEG/PNG/TIFF/JPEG2000 file save settings are now available in File Save dialog.
Image Editor  : JPEG file save settings include a red warning about this lossy compression image 
                format with a link to wikipedia to aware users.

General       : Native slideshow tool : new option to slide an album tree in recursive mode.
General       : Native slideshow tool : add capability to print photograph informations during slide.
General       : Native slideshow tool : preaparing slideshow is now cancelable.

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BUGS FIXES :

142088: Build fails when libkexiv2 is in $PREFIX, but not in $KDEDIR or standard include directories
140227: remove or modify D&D tags menu from icon view area (improvements, not finished)
142088: Build fails when libkexiv2 is in $PREFIX, but not in $KDEDIR or standard include directories
142109: Turn under/over exposure display on/off by click on corresponding icons
141663: Keep getting prompted to Apply Comments
139024: camera GUI new items selection doesn't work
139547: tag hierarchy automatic fill 
141626:  Bugs in german translation 
141786: confirmation dialog during rename to existing file does n... 
141924: tags preview not updated in last image of album 
141934: Incorrect capitalized string: "back to album" 
141961: Long comments truncated in slideshow
242 ==> 115157 : Usability: Image comments/tags dialog: hard to find/see all 
already selected 
                 tags (and to 'de'select them).
243 ==> 132309 : Wish: enhance video support in digiKam.
244 ==> 115153 : Assigns tags not only to selected images with drag and drop.
245 ==> 131743 : Comments and tag edit widgets should retain focus when 
		changing image.
246 ==> 140412 : Comments/Tags sidebar steels focus.
247 ==> 137491 : Editor image cache not flush when an image is modified 
		outside digiKam.
248 ==> 138949 : Save/overwrite fails: wrong dialog.
249 ==> 139197 : Crash during import of raw imagefiles (DNG).
250 ==> 139313 : UTF-8 image comments are mangled when input from image 
		editor.
251 ==> 136903 : If partition gets full during camera/card copy there is no 
		warning and empty files are created.
252 ==> 133955 : Rating search: less, equal, and larger comparison.
253 ==> 139547 : Tag hierarchy automatic fill.
254 ==> 138816 : gpcamera.cpp compile failure CameraList camList.
255 ==> 93542  : Improvements to digiKam print interface.
256 ==> 139658 : Tiff generated by photoshop is either ignored by digiKam 
		image browser, or kills digiKam when regenerating the database.
257 ==> 102032 : Wish: rating system for photos, show/hide/sort by rating.
258 ==> 111446 : Bad behaviour when out of disk space.
259 ==> 133516 : Tags set in Comments/Tags end up on the wrong picture.
260 ==> 140136 : Aspect ratio crop and selection widget improvements.
261 ==> 131600 : Set tag for multiple selection of images.
262 ==> 137545 : Helper lines / cross wanted.
263 ==> 131170 : Add grid/auxiliary lines for perspective correction tool.
264 ==> 138158 : Allow to edit multiple image tags/comments at same time.
265 ==> 140234 : Thumbnail click default action.
266 ==> 135141 : Border size in pixel.
267 ==> 137696 : Border extent should not follow image aspect ratio.
268 ==> 138444 : More clear/consistent color management terminology.
269 ==> 140176 : Showfoto crashes when selecting a filter.
270 ==> 130237 : Typos in digiKam plugin files.
271 ==> 138925 : External modules config dialog lacks a select all button.
272 ==> 140038 : digiKam Image Editor crash on right click after changing 
toolbar.
273 ==> 139766 : Crash when displaying EXIF metadata with Unicode comment
274 ==> 130017 : Wish: batch operation to save existing comments in the files.
275 ==> 140320 : View menu should better fit after Edit.
276 ==> 127617 : "Toggle Fullscreen" should be located in "View" menu instead 
                 of "Settings" menu.
277 ==> 139264 : digiKam sorts pictures with wrong exif tag.
278 ==> 140417 : Crash digiKam when delete image.
279 ==> 110514 : Enhanced selection, refactored histogram. 
280 ==> 140933 : Typo: Album Library Path.
281 ==> 141190 : digikam crash when invalid ICM file at color profile 
directory 
                 and you enter into PREFERENCES->COLOR SPACE PROFILES.
282 ==> 123649 : JPEG/PNG quality settings at the "save" dialog.
283 ==> 116518 : Use KIPI plugin for displaying slideshows.
284 ==> 140304 : Start slideshow from the current image.
285 ==> 140303 : slideshow must be relocated to View menu from tools menu.
286 ==> 137503 : Tags are not written to image file automatically.
287 ==> 136254 : Editing tags does not change IPTC-keywords.
288 ==> 135655 : Proper full screen mode (no menu, toolbar, statusbar, 
	sidebars)
001 ==> 87823  : Displaying images with ICC color profile when possible.
002 ==> 91811  : Find pictures by meta tag info, date.
003 ==> 91812  : Viewer/editor for IPTC meta data.
004 ==> 96459  : EXIF for RAW camera images.
005 ==> 116248 : Ask user which plugins should be enabled on first startup.
006 ==> 115441 : Resize EXIF-rotated images doesn't work.
007 ==> 115460 : Opening and closing right pane with tag filter also changes width of left pane and vv.
008 ==> 124688 : digiKam loading time is big because of : WARNING: Failed to find parent for Tag.
009 ==> 109253 : digiKam does not store comments in image EXIF tags.
010 ==> 115764 : Modify EXIF creation date.
011 ==> 121487 : "Tip of the day" text gets cut off.
012 ==> 120052 : Redraw problem with whatthis info of an image show and start scrolling with the mouse.
013 ==> 120053 : Whatthis info not closed when albumview is scrolled up or down with cursor keys.
014 ==> 123522 : Minolta's RAW files (mrw) aren't show in the view window.
015 ==> 121905 : Albums not displayed correctly and digiKam crashes with St9bad_alloc.
016 ==> 113997 : Option to store tags in image.
017 ==> 123742 : Preview-pictures seem to be handled differently by digiKam and Konqueror.
018 ==> 121308 : Mass storage and PTP usability.
019 ==> 121306 : Add copyright/license during download.
020 ==> 111560 : Be able to locate photos on a map.
021 ==> 122747 : Will not build with GCC 4.1.
022 ==> 103176 : 16bit/channel framework for digiKam.
023 ==> 109096 : Provide quick access to image comment.
024 ==> 109817 : Feature request for image properties dialog in image editor.
025 ==> 109992 : Preview in comments editor resizeable.
026 ==> 113103 : Show digiKam comments into digiKam image editor.
027 ==> 124939 : Improve import picture nomenclature.
028 ==> 113915 : Tags are lost after "Save As..."ing.
029 ==> 103245 : Image Effects are inaccessible from image editor.
030 ==> 125589 : Saving user preferences not possible.
031 ==> 103201 : Easy transport of albums, including tags, comments, etc.
032 ==> 119234 : Window views not updated when tag name changed in "Tag Filters".
033 ==> 103255 : Wish: *add* (not edit) EXIF headers like date, comment etc.
034 ==> 121800 : Can't setup camera correctly.
035 ==> 121784 : Accessing the camera in mass storage mode just lists jpegs and no other filetypes.
036 ==> 121371 : Missing display of EXIF infos in "Simple view".
037 ==> 123646 : Rating image with a keyboard shortcut.
038 ==> 119946 : Thumbnails not correctly rotated according to exif information.
039 ==> 106103 : Should support adding GPS EXIF header to images.
040 ==> 110598 : Synchronize digiKam comments to existing embedded comments.
041 ==> 118501 : Exifs lost when modifying the images.
042 ==> 122264 : Exif data fail to show up in recent SVN.
043 ==> 103489 : Sort and re-order EXIF information dialogs.
044 ==> 105670 : Option to print EXIF data with images.
045 ==> 109319 : Full EXIF info - exiftags style.
046 ==> 120963 : Optional album date change.
047 ==> 121370 : Can't save images sometimes after some modifications.
048 ==> 121646 : digiKam on PPC has problem identifying JPEG and tries to use dcraw with them.
049 ==> 120479 : Search problem for not tagged or commented images.
050 ==> 120775 : Search doesn't find pictures without rating.
051 ==> 112063 : When viewing image in fullscreen there is an ugly frame at the border of the screen.
052 ==> 120736 : Many imageplugins going busy for ever when not using rubber to change a value.
053 ==> 116154 : Show progress bar while saving large files.
054 ==> 120521 : Untranslatable message in tagfilterview.cpp.
055 ==> 119742 : Wish list -include move to trash in right click menu.
056 ==> 119201 : Sometimes digiKam fails to show newly downloaded photos.
057 ==> 117401 : digiKam's 'my albums' and 'my tags' does no longer remember it's state when restarted.
058 ==> 116520 : Slideshow should work for search results as well.
059 ==> 119073 : Wish list rescan option.
060 ==> 118543 : Enable-nfs-hack no longer works.
061 ==> 113807 : Is it possible to have the tags of the contextual menus "Assign Tag" and 
                 "Remove Tag" sorted ?
062 ==> 116343 : "Not Tagged" has disappeared from the Tags Filter view when changing album library path.
063 ==> 117225 : digiKam requires at least libpng >= 1.2.7.
064 ==> 115423 : Thumbnails view jumps to top when new photos are added.
065 ==> 125732 : ICC settings get reset when disabled and re-enabled.
066 ==> 119741 : Restore image editor if already open.
067 ==> 122374 : Ignores read-only permission during saving.
068 ==> 121367 : Add properties tab to digiKam and (especially) Image Editor.
069 ==> 125926 : Directories with a '#' in their name are not properly detected when created outside digiKam.
070 ==> 125733 : Enabling 'Always apply ICM profiles' can lead to suprising results.
071 ==> 126326 : Camera download: auto-rotated images loose EXIF info when 'No EXIF information found.' 
                 is written to console.
072 ==> 121242 : mimelnk/x-image-raw.desktop conflicts with kdegraphics-3.5.x.
073 ==> 127374 : Unsharp mask: max. radius way too small.
074 ==> 116485 : Mimimize button missing on "Compaq Flash Reader" camera window.
075 ==> 127577 : Raw display too dark and not rotated.
076 ==> 127634 : Communication between digiKam and its kioslaves broken if size_t != off_t.
077 ==> 126335 : Autoration of photos may confuse user because of changes made he is not aware of.
078 ==> 127759 : No scroll bar in color management/select profile.
079 ==> 114211 : Main Interface: image comments encoding unreadable after moving an album.
080 ==> 120241 : Main Interface: utf8 display and edit.
081 ==> 127905 : Wish: make comment field resizable.
082 ==> 127946 : Typo: the word Toogle should be Toggle.
083 ==> 117115 : Automatically rotate/flip using camera-provided information (EXIF) modifies image contents
084 ==> 128069 : Crash when moving an album to another album.
085 ==> 125779 : Use deflate compression for tiffs.
086 ==> 127972 : digiKam does not *add* EXIF:DateTimeOriginal when modifying date
087 ==> 127697 : Camera gui always puts *.JPG and *.NEF in the configure - digiKam dialog/File 
                 Mime Types/ Image Files.
088 ==> 128373 : "Makernote - Simple" should show ISO.
089 ==> 113915 : Tags are lost after "Save As..."ing.
090 ==> 128283 : Thumbnail generation fails with raw images.
091 ==> 126112 : Do not open new window when camera is connected.
092 ==> 127846 : digiKam crash when 2nd gphoto camera dialog is closed.
093 ==> 93569  : Easier connection to USB disc cameras.
094 ==> 124952 : digiKam "Mount and Download" Problems.
095 ==> 129134 : Typo in missing files warning dialog "loose" should be "lose".
096 ==> 128914 : Differientiating view and edit / call for a integrated viewer.
097 ==> 128669 : Use embedded thumbnail for viewing RAW files.
098 ==> 127991 : digiKam image editor and raws (nef).
099 ==> 129450 : Cannot exit preview mode within empty album.
100 ==> 129610 : Unsupported initialization of CameraList object.
101 ==> 127584 : Minimum width of sidebar too large.
102 ==> 127763 : Color management, profile selection crashes.
103 ==> 126199 : Nikon D70 comments in jpegs are all shown as "charset="Ascii".
104 ==> 130381 : Automatic colorbalance and camera color balance checkboxes swapped.
105 ==> 117248 : Opening default app when camera inserted return KIOExec error.
106 ==> 130883 : Overexposure indicator in color management is saved as part of the picture.
107 ==> 130798 : Editor saves some jpeg's 30% smaller than original,
                 even with jpeg compression option set at 100.
108 ==> 130525 : Saving large (>5M) jpg's result in corrupt file.
109 ==> 130920 : ICC, profiles, metadata, abbreviations.
110 ==> 124199 : digiKam crashed when I right-clicked in the (empty) "My Albums" view.
111 ==> 127826 : Album comment with no wordwrap.