digiKam

Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source

digiKam 0.9.2-beta2 release

by gerhard

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 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.

So what's new on digiKam planet?
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General : digiKam has a powerful new tool to compare similar images side by side: the Light Table. Demos and screenshots are here and here.
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digiKam BUGFIXES FROM KDE BUGZILLA (alias B.K.O | http://bugs.kde.org):

040 ==> 135048 : Easily compare similar images using a light-table.
041 ==> 145159 : Improvements to the light-table.
042 ==> 145204 : Small issues with the light-table.
043 ==> 145227 : Change ratings via short-cuts in the light-table.
044 ==> 145236 : Small wishes for the light-table.
045 ==> 145237 : Small wishes for the light-table (2).
046 ==> 145170 : Always allow zooming in/out in imageeditor.
047 ==> 145078 : Ctrl-Y untied from Redo.
048 ==> 145083 : Space and Shift-Space isn't used for navigation between images.
049 ==> 145077 : Ctrl-W and Ctrl-Q shortcuts not tied to proper actions:fixed
050 ==> 145558 : In menu view: window size/original size: ctrl-shift-z obsolete?
051 ==> 144640 : CTRL-P does nothing in Album GUI: fixed to print action
052 ==> 144643 : Ctrl-Shift-A does not deselect in Album GUI: fixed
053 ==> 144644 : Ctrl-0 does not set zoom to 100% in Preview mode: Alt+Ctrl+0
054 ==> 144650 : Shift-Space doesn't work as PageUp.
055 ==> 145079 : Ctrl-A, Ctrl-Shift-A don't peform proper selection actions.
056 ==> 145627 : Showfoto /path/to/directory doesn't work, while the "open dir" feature exists.
057 ==> 146012 : Dragging an image over a tag in "tag filters" panel crashes digiKam.
058 ==> 146032 : Panning doesn't work in Light Table.