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It's our pleasure to announce availability of a new bugfix release of great
photo and video tagging tool, KPhotoAlbum. It is available from standard place or from your
favorite distribution's package database.
While new features are being added to the KDE4 version, we have decided to roll
out a bugfix release that fixes some issues people have reported. This is
probably the last release based on KDE3 code.
Bugs fixed include numerous improvements in the KIPI Plugins interface,
fullscreen fix for some Ubuntu users and usability improvements.
It's our pleasure to announce availability of new release of a great
photo and video tagging tool, KPhotoAlbum. It is available from
standard place
or from your favorite distribution's package database.
New killing features™:
- IPTC support
- More RAW formats are recognized
Usability improvements:
- No need to use "Select All" before launching Viewer
- Allow copying tags from previous image in Annotation Dialog
- Edit->Copy menu for copying a list of images to clipboard
- Mouse cursor hiding in Viewer
And of course also many bug fixes and speed improvements.
Release notes:
- If you decide to build with EXIF support (you should), KPA now
requires
exiv2-0.15 or higher
- If you want RAW file support, please use
libkdcraw-0.1.1 or
newer
April 4th I got married, and at the same time I bought a house. Marriage
doesn't take much extra time, but a house certainly does!
But this weekend I'm in Glasgow, and fortunately the terrorist missed me
- actually I arrived in Glasgow 1 hour prior to the attach.
So this is the time, now I've started porting KPhotoAlbum to Qt4/KDE4,
stay tuned for more information.
PhotoAlbum 3.0.1 has been released, with huge thanks to Tuomas for
pulling this of, the changes are:
- Don't anymore ignore the selection in the first press of the Plugins
menu item, when plugin loading is delayed.
- In member group tab of the configuration dialog, when changing
category from the dropdown list, items from a different category were
sometimes added to members listbox. Not anymore.
- Selecting thumbnails with a mouse made more logical and fixed a bug
that sometimes prevented a selected thumbnail to be added into internal
selection list.
- Raw files were rotated twice sometimes. Fixed by Michael J Gruber.
- Cycles in member group configuration are not possible anymore.
KPhotoAlbum 3.0 has been released with 13 languages completely
translated, and another handful close to completely translated. In addition
9 languages contains full online documentation.
A huge thank you to all the translators that did a great job on
this.
And now... (drums) to the prize drawing....The winner is the Portuguese team, who
will receive the prize on $100. Congratulation!
Now was that a fair drawing?! Well I so much hope so. I at least went out of the
way trying to make the drawing as fair as possible. As an added bonus, we
had great fun picking the winner, just check out this transcript
from IRC
It is with great pride that I here on the very last day of 2006 can
announce the release of KPhotoAlbum 3.0
Major new Features
- KPhotoAlbum is now capable of categorizing and showing videos.
- Sub-categories are now shown as hierarchies in the browser and in the
annotation dialog. In the annotation dialog it is possible to put an item
into a sub-category simply by dragging it in there.
Minor new Features
- In the annotation dialog, it is now possible to scroll the list of
selected items, but pressing arrow up and down.
- While typing in the annotation dialog, hide items that does not match
the current typed text.
- In the viewer it is now possible to use mouse wheel to scroll to the next/prev image.
- Now it is possible to specify the icon size in used in the browser -
esp usefull for showing larger images for persons in an icon view.
- It is now possible to use the search bar in the main window, when showing folders.
- The checkboxes in the annotation dialog are now tristate, which
means that there are no need for the "merge" and "remove"
checkboxes.
- Ensure every action's keybinding in the viewer is configurable
- Warn the user at start up if not all features are installed.
- New splash screen.
- It is now possible to bring up the exif dialog from the viewer.
- New option to show categories in the thumbnail view. Now it is also
possible to set tokens directly in the thumbnail view.
- Show mega pixel in info box, and zoom factor in viewer.
- It is now possible to see the images in pixel by pixel mode.
Important Bugfixes
- Selection using the shift key and mouse button was broken if selected spanned several pages.
- Improved the selection handling in the thumbnail viewer.
- Changing the label for an image in the annotation dialog did not
result in the label being updated in the thumbnail view.
- When renaming a category also rename the category thumbnails.
- Fixed a crash happening when saving after a category had been renamed,
and that category was included in the privacy settings.
- Use alternate EXIF reading code in case EXIV2 is not installed.
- Bugfix: The panes in the annotation dialog would not show up correctly
in translated version of KPhotoAlbum.
- Translated version of KPA would display image dates in English, but
expect month input in the translated language. This has now been fixed so
it expected input in English too.
- Somehow running the viewer always forced it to show in a new window,
that was definitely against the design.
- Searching for description did not work.
- Improved support for the flickr plug-in. Now tags are correctly
uploaded.
- Finally nailed down the bug where the annotation dialog did not show the first image preview.
- Directories only show the filename part now in the browser category directories.
- Fixed problem with windows layout not being read correctly if any
category name contains non-latin1 character.
- In the settings dialog you were asked if you really wanted to delete a
category. Despite your answer it would be deleted nevertheless.
- Renamed Persons to People and Locations to Places.
- Save configurations of special categories (should they be shown in the
viewer etc).
Special Thank you
I'd like to bring a special thank you to the following people:
- Christoph Moseler for numerous bug fixes and feature enhancements
(among other support for setting tokens in the thumbnail view).
- Clytie Siddall for helping out with the English text.
- Baptiste Mathus for lots of bug hunting
- Henner Zeller for support in the viewer for showing mega pixels
- Mark Jaroski for improved support for the flicker plug-in.
- Robert L Krawitz for improving the video detection, and for the pixel by pixel
feature
The winner of the splash screen competition has kindly created a new
layout for the KPhotoAlbum Homepage. Thanks a lot Jaroslav Holaň.
Today KPhotoAlbum entered message freeze, and is now ready to be
translated. The release will happen Dec 31th 2006.
To bring a bit of attention to the great work the translators do I've
started a small prize drawing contest which those with a complete
translation of KPA participate in. The prize is $100.
I completely understands that $100 is not a whole lot of money, and this
is merely to show some appreciation of their contribution.
Technicalities regarding the drawing:
Every person or team that has translated the messages in the application
get one entry in the draw. Every person or team that has translated the user manual gets
two entries in the draw. Only translations that are 100% complete counts.
The prize is $100 and will be transfered using paypal, so it is your
responsibility to have a paypal account.
I'll extract the list of who checked in a revision latest in SVN (on dec
31th), and trust that the teams will figure out how to share the price in
case several people contributed. (Heck in best case you will be able to go
a couple of people to dinner, we are not talking millions here :-)
A new snapshot has just been released, and at the same time, this means
that KPhotoAlbum just have entered message freeze. No new feature, no new
message strings, no minor tiny bugfixes, no, now it is almost time for a
release party.
This does at the same time mean that everyone who have the slightest
understanding of how to use a compiler should install this snapshot, so
we can get as many bugs out of the way while waiting for the translators to
do their magic.
OK that is it, now KPA is really really frozen. Everyone please try KPA
now and report every single issue you see. I will, however, try and
prioritize bugs so that we can get something released now. ETA for the
release 2007! Well jan 1th 00:00 2007 ;-)
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