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Kipi-plugins 0.5.0 for KDE4 released

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Dear all digiKam fans and users!

Kipi-plugins 0.5.0 maintenance release for KDE4 is out.

kipi-plugins0.5.0

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

Kipi-plugins will be 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:

PrintWizard : Added support for 2-1/3" x 3-1/3" pictures.
DNGConverter : Update internal XMP sdk from Adobe to version 4.4.
PrintImages : Added multiple pages printing.
PrintWizard : Page layout into template.xml file, custom templates can be added now.

001 ==> PrintWizard : 162085 : digiKam freezes while printing.
002 ==> HtmlExport : 196890 : “Next” button on first wizard page is initially disabled.
003 ==> FlickrExport : 180055 : Can’t create new photoset: Invalid primary photo id (n).
004 ==> FlickrExport : 192541 : Name based Flickr set selection is ambiguous [patch].
005 ==> TimeAdjust : 180244 : Timeadjust is not building on mac os x leopard.
006 ==> SendImages : 169952 : Pictures on nfs-drive crashes digiKam when i send picture as mail.
007 ==> BatchProcess : 173664 : Menu: Can’t resize image(s).
008 ==> DngConverter : 199129 : xmp_sdk/common/LargeFileAccess.cpp: size of array ‘check_off_t_size’ is negative.
009 ==> picasaExport : 188850 : Does not upload to picassaweb — just hangs for hours.
010 ==> ScanImages : 147366 : SIGABORT on Second Scan from HP 5200 scanner.
011 ==> SendImages : 190208 : Change image properties options should be grayed out when the check box is unchecked.
012 ==> SendImages : 146487 : kipi-plugins export to email fails when email too large.
013 ==> SendImages : 189984 : Impossible to email images if the path contains characters such as éèà.
014 ==> RawConverter : 161337 : Image rotation of converted RAW photos (portrait format) broken.
015 ==> Calendar : 196888 : Create Calender: Year formatted as 2,009 on last page of wizard.
016 ==> Calendar : 111697 : I wish for the option to change the first day of week (sun / mon).
017 ==> GPSSync : 187517 : GPSSync when entering no map.
018 ==> BatchProcess : 200483 : digiKam crashes after batch image-color-improvement on single picture.
019 ==> AcquireImages: 200558 : Crash when saving scanned image to .tiff.
020 ==> BatchProcess : 200217 : Crash after batch recompress.
021 ==> BatchProcess : 200722 : Crashes after successfull batch and closing resize dialog.
022 ==> AdvSlideShow : 200647 : Not all main settings are not restored correctly.
023 ==> BatchProcess : 168243 : Delete photo after not found imagemagick.
024 ==> BatchProcess : 149488 : After batch renaming pictures, the pictures appears as unkown images, and can’t be removed from album nor can be viewed or edit.
025 ==> SendImages : 146828 : Sendimages opera command line.
026 ==> BatchProcess : 186648 : Batch rename doesn’t refresh view.
027 ==> PrintWizard : 188426 : Add support for different size printwizard templates.
028 ==> MetadataEdit : 200960 : Image / Metadata / Remove Captions does not remove caption from Xmp.tiff.ImageDescription.
029 ==> AdvSlideShow : 155179 : Slideshow ignores Rating Filter.
030 ==> BatchProcess : 201257 : digiKam crashes when batch resizing images.

Create MPEG slideshow

Are there any plans to revive the "create mpeg slideshow" plugin in the KDE 4 set ?

Same question here. I am

Same question here. I am missing this feature too :-(

Mpeg encoder plugin...

Old MpegEncoder plugin is not ported to KDE4. This one use a bash script in background to play with ImageMagick + MJPEGTools. This way is wrong and not really portable.

With Angello, We will review all candidate solutions in next coding event planed in October at Genoa to replace this plugin with a better program, as SMILE for example.

Same for me too - I really

Same for me too - I really miss this feature

I really thank to one who

I really thank to one who wrote this article. I have always been reading and writing texts like this in blogs. Also, I, as a daily writer, present my respects to everyone. I just watched videos like this in video izle. I research in all areas.

I think people must first research before writing...

Choosing install dir

How can I define in which directory the files will be installed when I issue the make install command? By default it goes to /usr/local/, but I need it in /usr/. Thanks

README

Look in README file, all is explained in details...

Gallery export

With the gallery export plugin and a gallery 2 installation , even though I check "Comment sets Title" and/or "comment sets caption" in the plugin, these fields are set with the filename instead.

Will you try to improve the

Will you try to improve the interface soon? Right now it's too messy.. Keep up the good work anyway.