Kipi-plugins 0.2.0 for KDE4 released

Dear all digiKam fans and users!

Official kipi-plugins 0.2.0 release for KDE4 is out.

kipi-plugins 0.2.0 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url

Kipi-plugins is also available for Windows. Precompiled packages can be donwloaded with KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.

See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:

General : Port to CMake/KDE4/QT4.
General : all plugins can be compiled natively under Microsoft Windows.
General : Plugins now use metadata settings shared with kipi host application.
General : All import/export plugins now have keyboard shortcuts.
General : SimpleViewer plugin has been renamed to FlashExport.
General : New icons for all Export/import plugins.

JPEGLossLess : XMP metadata support.

TimeAdjust : XMP metadata support.

MetadataEdit : XMP metadata support with EXIF, IPTC, and Comments editor to sync XMP tags.
MetadataEdit : IPTC Editor dialog is more compliant with IPTC.org recommendations.
MetadataEdit : IPTC Editor add the capability to set multiple values for a tag.

SendImages : Complete re-write of emailing tool.

GPSSync : New tool to edit GPS track list using googlemaps.

RAWConverter : XMP metadata support.
RAWConverter : Raw files are decoded in 16 bits color depth using same auto-gamma and auto-white methods provided by dcraw with 8 bits color depth RAW image decoding.

SlideShow : Now filenames, captions and progress indicators can have transparent backgrounds with OpenGL SlideShow as well.
SlideShow : Added thumbnails into image list.
SlideShow : Now you can play your favourite music during slideshow.
SlideShow : Normal effects are back.
SlideShow : New effect “Cubism”.
SlideShow : Added support for RAW images.
SlideShow : New effect “Mosaic”.

RemoveRedEyes : New plugin to remove red eyes in batch. Tool is based on OpenCV library.

Calendar : Ported to QT4/KDE4.
Calendar : Support RAW images.

AcquireImages : Under Windows, TWAIN interface is used to scan image using flat scanner.

DNGConverter : New plugin to convert RAW camera image to Digital NeGative (DNG).
DNGConverter : plugin is now available as a stand alone application.

PrintWizard : Ported to QT4/KDE4.
PrintWizard : Added a new option to skip cropping, the image is scaled automatically.
PrintImages : New plugin that allow to choose old print assistant or to print all the selected photos directly.

RemoveRedEyes : Added an option to preview the correction of the currently selected image.

Facebook : New plugin to export images to a remote Facebook web service (http://www.facebook.com).
Facebook : Facebook plugin now support also import (download) of photos.

FlickrExport : Add support of Photosets.
FlickrExport : Add support for 23hq.com service which uses Flickr API.

Smug : New plugin to export images to a remote SmugMug web service.(http://www.smugmug.com).
Smug : Add support for Album Templates.
Smug : Import (download) of images from SmugMug web service.

001 ==> 135451 : GPSSync : Improve the gui of the gpssync plugin.
002 ==> 135386 : GPSSync : Show track on the google map.
003 ==> 149497 : GPSSync : Geolocalization kipi plugin does not work with non-jpeg file types.
004 ==> 145746 : GPSSync : Do not recreate thumbs when geolocalizing images.
005 ==> 158792 : GPSsync : Plugin do not working with Canon RAW CR2.
006 ==> 165078 : GPSSync : GPS correlator does not show thumbnails.
007 ==> 165278 : GPSSync : Geotagging dialog doesn’t display all thumbnails.
008 ==> 134299 : SimpleViewerExport : Read orientation of image from EXIF.
009 ==> 150076 : SlideShow : Playing music during a slideshow.
010 ==> 172283 : SlideShow : SlideShow crashes host application.
011 ==> 172337 : SlideShow : Slideshow enhancements by ken-burns effects.
012 ==> 173276 : SlideShow : digiKam crashs after closing.
013 ==> 172910 : GalleryExport : Gallery crash (letting crash digiKam) with valid data and url.
014 ==> 161855 : GalleryExport : Remote Gallery Sync loses password.
015 ==> 154752 : GalleryExport : Export to Gallery2 seems to fail, but in fact works.
016 ==> 157285 : SlideShow : digiKam advanced slideshow not working with Canon RAWs.
017 ==> 175316 : GPSSync : digiKam crashes when trying to enter gps data.
018 ==> 169637 : MetadataEdit : EXIF Data Editing Error.
019 ==> 174954 : HTMLExport : Support for remote urls.
020 ==> 176640 : MetadataEdit : Wrong reference to website.
021 ==> 176749 : TimeAdjust : Incorrect time/date setting with digiKam.
022 ==> 165370 : GPSSync : crash when saving geocoordinates.
023 ==> 165486 : GPSSync : Next and Previous photo button for editing geolocalization coordinates.
024 ==> 175296 : GPSSync : Geolocalization a handy gui to manage all about geotagging.
025 ==> 152520 : MetadataEdit : Unified entry of metadata.
026 ==> 135320 : Calendar : Calendar year do not match locale.
027 ==> 116970 : Calendar : New calendar generator plugin features.
028 ==> 177999 : General : Kipi-plugins Shortcuts are not listed in the shortcuts editor from Kipi host application.
029 ==> 160236 : JPEGLossLess : Image Magick convert operations return with errors.
030 ==> 144183 : RawConverter : Path in RAW-converter broken with the letter “ß”
031 ==> 178495 : MetadataEdit : Problem with metadata editor.
032 ==> 175219 : PicasaWebExport : Album creating wrong date in picasaweb.
033 ==> 175222 : PicasaWebExport : Unable to create non listed album.
034 ==> 166672 : Facebook : Export to Facebook.
035 ==> 129623 : FlickrExport : Option to upload to specific photoset.
036 ==> 161775 : FlickrExport : Photoset support.
037 ==> 179439 : JPEGLossLess : Rotation or flip do not update internal thumbnail.
038 ==> 180245 : TimeAdjust : Timeadjust is not building on mac os x leopard.
039 ==> 180656 : PicasaWebExport : Wrong file selection filter in export picasaweb.
040 ==> 175928 : GalleryExport : digiKam crashing when trying to export to gallery2 web service.
041 ==> 181694 : MetadataEdit : Edit caption should present current caption for easier modification.
042 ==> 181973 : RAWConverter : Raw batch converter loses exif information.
043 ==> 181334 : IpodExort : The artwork API in libgpod-0.7.0 has changed slightly, IpodExport plugin needs updated.
044 ==> 181853 : MetadataEdit : Entering new xmp meta data removes old one from the image file.
045 ==> 133649 : Print Wizard : Scale images instead of cropping.
046 ==> 182838 : Facebook : Change API authentication to Desktop application type.
047 ==> 184312 : General : Use SmoothTransform for scaling images for export, calendar and slideshow.
048 ==> 140438 : General : 3 different viewers for diferents needs.
049 ==> 184553 : GalleryExport : Encoding issue with gallery2.
050 ==> 159794 : JPEGLossLess : Cannot rotate .tif images in digiKam.
051 ==> 184702 : JPEGLossLess : Cannot rotate TIFFs in Album GUI.
052 ==> 184332 : AdvancedSlideShow : Compiling error with Qt4.5.
053 ==> 177137 : PrintWizard : digiKam print assistant problems and ideas.
054 ==> 176367 : PrintWizard : Crop stage does not allow rotation or selection.
055 ==> 178983 : PrintWizard : Next/back-buttons in print-assistant should be labeled.
056 ==> 095404 : PrintWizard : Printwizard print image with custom size, original size, autoscaled size to paper.
057 ==> 183661 : General : Better action icons for export plugins.
058 ==> 187203 : RAWConverter : Batch raw converter crash digikam.