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11th February 2005
by Derek Kite
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This Week...
Win32 tools and build support added to kdelibs. digiKam adds undo support for image editing. Kipi adds EPS image file format. KPDF begins work to support annotations. KDE now sports a new logo. Plus many bug fixes in preparation for the release.

Gilles Caulier announced that DigikamImagePlugins 0.7.2-beta1 is out for your image correction pleasure with digiKam image editor
The DigikamImagePlugins team is pleased to announce the new 0.7.2-beta1 release.

DigikamImagePlugins are a collection of plugins for digiKam 0.7.2 Image Editor. These plugins add new image treatment options like color management, filters, or special effects.

Currently implemented plugins are listed below:
  • LensDistortion: lens distortion correction tool. -NEW-
  • Anti-Vignetting: lens vignetting correction tool. -NEW-
  • Perspective: a tool for adjust photograph perspective. -NEW-
  • ShearTool: a tool for adjust photograph shearing. -NEW-
  • AddBorder: a tool for add decorative border around photograph. -NEW-
  • Superimpose: a tool for superimpose funny template under photograph. -NEW-
  • Adjust curves: a tool to adjust the image colors using curves.
  • Adjust levels: a plugin to adjust the image histogram levels manually.
  • Despeckle: A noise reduction filter (using on Gimp 2.0 algorithm).
  • Unsharp: An unsharped mask image filter (using on Gimp 2.0 algorithm).
  • Free Rotation: a plugin to rotate an image with a free angle in degrees.
  • SolarizeImage: a plugin to solarize an image.
  • OilPaint: an oil painting effect filter (using Pieter Voloshyn algorithm).
  • Emboss: an embossed image effect filter (using Pieter Voloshyn algorithm).
  • Raindrops: adding the visual effect of raindrops to an image (using Pieter Voloshyn algorithm).
  • Charcoal: a charcoal drawing image effect filter.
  • FilmGrain: simulate film grain to an image.
Each plugin provide full documentation. You can consult these manuals at this url:

http://docs.kde.org/en/HEAD/kdeextragear-3/digikamimageplugins

GUI and DOC are frozen and ready for translations. 0.7.2 final release is planned to feb. 28.

For more informations, please consult the web project page available at this url:

http://extragear.kde.org/apps/digikamimageplugins

The camera tools people have been busy. Gilles Caulier also announced that digiKam 0.7.2-beta1 is out for your image management pleasure.
The digiKam team is pleased to announce the new 0.7.2-beta1 release.

digiKam is a digital photo management application for KDE, which makes importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos can be organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by directory layout or by custom collections. An easy to use interface is provided that enables you to connect to your camera and preview, download and/or delete your images.

What's new
  • Image Editor: Add new 'copy' action to copy current selection to clipboard. You can paste this selection in other application like Kolorpaint, Gimp, Kword, etc...
  • Image Editor: Undoing actions capability.
  • Image Editor: Usability improvements of ratio-crop tool. Add 'Rule Third Lines' guides for to help users to compose a photograph.
  • Image Editor: Replaced native dynamic guibuilder system with kde xmlgui one for plugins. Toolbars and shortcuts are now configurable within the imageviewer.
  • Image Editor: Fix PNG compression and JPEG quality min and max values (Gimp/Photoshop like)
  • Image Editor: New Stretch Contrast color filter.
  • Image Editor: New classic Black and White photograph tonal convertion: Neutral BW, Sepia, Selenium, Platinum, Cold-Tone, Brown.
  • Image Editor: added action icons.
  • New splashcreen with animation like kDevelop.
Bugs Fix:digiKam provide full documentation. You can consult this manual at this url:

http://docs.kde.org/en/HEAD/kdeextragear-3/digikam

GUI and DOC are frozen and ready for translations. 0.7.2 final release is planned to feb. 28.

For more informations, please consult the web project page available at this url:

http://digikam.sf.net

And another one: The Kipi team is pleased to announce the new 0.1.0-beta2 release for plugins and libkipi-0.1.1 for library.
Kipi (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an effort to develop a common plugin structure for Digikam, KimDaBa, Showimg and Gwenview. Its aim is to share image plugins among graphic applications.

Currently implemented plugins are listed below:
  • GalleryExport: Interface for export images collections to remote Gallery web server. -NEW-
  • RawConverter: A raw image converter for digital cameras.
  • SlideShow: Slideshow with effects ripped out from kslideshow and 3D effects using OpenGL.
  • MpegEncoder: Create an MPEG slideshow from your images.
  • ImagesGallery: An HTML gallery generator.
  • PrintWizard: A wizard to print images in various format.
  • JpegLossLess: Batch process your JPEG images without losing meta information and compression.
  • CdArchiving: Archive your albums on CD or DVD using K3b.
  • ScanImages: Scanner management using Kooka.
  • ScreenshotImages: Snap screen based on KSnapshot and adapted to Kipi.
  • Calendar: A plugin to create calendars.
  • SendImages: A plugin to send images by email, allowing resizing and recompressing before sending.
  • RenameImages: Batch image renamer.
  • ConvertImages: Batch image converter.
  • BorderImages: Add border to your images in batch.
  • FilterImages: Batch image enhancer using digital filters.
  • ColorImages: Batch image color enhancer.
  • EffectImages: Batch image transformation effects.
  • ResizeImages: Batch image resizer.
  • RecompressImages: Batch image recompressor.
  • FindDuplicateImages: Find duplicate images in albums.
  • WallPaper: Set your image as wallpaper.
  • TimeAdjust: Adjust image file time and date.
  • KameraKlient: digiKam 0.6.2 Gphoto2 interface ported as a Kipi plugin (disable to digiKam 0.7.x series).
You can download KipiPlugins-0.1.0-beta2 and libKipi-0.1.1 tarballs at these url:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/digikam/libkipi-0.1.1.tar.bz2?download

For more informations, please consult the web project page available at this url:

http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kipi

We see the first Qt4 commit this week, with Sandro Giessl porting the Plastik theme. This represents the first drops of the flood of similar work to come in 2005. To highlight this work and allow readers to examine the changes necessary to port code, these commits will be filed under Refactor. Other commits you will see of this type are when developers rework their code without introducing new features or directly fixing bugs. I am considering two more types: Documentation and Usability. If you have any comments or better ideas, drop me a line.


Statistics
Commits: 3496 by 215 developers, 251492 lines modified, 1798 new files.
Open Bugs: 7829
Open Wishes: 7223
Bugs Opened: 324 in the last 7 days.
Bugs Closed: 381 in the last 7 days.

Commit Summary
Module Commits
kde-i18n
1543
kdepim
199
kdebase
194
kdeextragear-1
188
kdenonbeta
156
kdeextragear-3
154
kdelibs
136
koffice
122
kdenetwork
107
kdegraphics
102
Lines Developer Commits
3510
Pedro Morais
175
21035
Gilles Caulier
117
529
Stephan Binner
101
2901
David Faure
92
3728
Clarence Dang
73
489
Thierry Vignaud
72
2678
Andrew Coles
72
5779
Stefan Asserhäll
70
570
Mark Kretschmann
70
4789
Erik K. Pedersen
70

Internationalisation (i18n) Status
Language Percentage Complete
Portuguese
99.90%
British English
99.79%
Swedish
99.50%
Danish
97.22%
French
97.05%
Estonian
95.70%
Dutch
95.63%
Italian
91.55%
Brazilian Portuguese
88.56%
Spanish
87.75%

Bug Killers
Bug Killer Number Of Bugs Closed
Max Howell
41
Martin Koller
40
Aaron J. Seigo
34
Thiago Macieira
20
Christian Esken
19
Esben Mose Hansen
17
Olivier Goffart
16
Mark Kretschmann
15
Rainer Wirtz
14
Jason Keirstead
13

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