KPhotoAlbum 5.11.0 released12 Jul 2023

We're happy to announce the new release 5.11.0 of KPhotoAlbum, the KDE photo management program!

Most notably, this release can be built against Exiv2 0.28, which introduced some breaking changes. Older versions are still supported as before.

Other things that have been changed and fixed (as listed in the ChangeLog) are:

Changed

• Recalculate Checksums in the Maintenance menu and Refresh Selected Thumbnails in the thumbnail context menu have been unified to do exactly the same.
• Simplified logging categories: kphotoalbum.XMLDB was merged into kphotoalbum.DB

Fixed

• Fix issue where non-empty time units in the date bar were incorrectly greyed out (#467903)
• Fix bug with the date bar showing and selecting incorrect date ranges (#468045)
• Fix crash when the annotation dialog is opened from the viewer window and the viewer is closed before the annotation dialog (#470889)
• Fix inconsistent UI where menu actions would not immediately be updated to reflect a change (#472109, #472113)

The list of contributors is quite short this time, it was only Johannes and me ;-) Anyway, thanks to everybody working on KPA in any way, to everybody having contributed in the past and for all future work!

Have a lot of fun with KPhotoAlbum 5.11.0 :-)

— Tobias

KPhotoAlbum 5.10.0 released28 Mar 2023

We're happy to announce the new release 5.10.0 of KPhotoAlbum, the KDE photo management program!

The ChangeLog for this version is as follows:

Changed

• View-related actions formerly found in the "Settings" menu were moved to the "View" menu.
• Make options "Display Labels in Thumbnail View" and "Display Categories in Thumbnail View" reachable via the "View" menu and allow both actions to be assigned keyboard shortcuts (Implements: #145346).
• Store the untagged tag information inside the index.xml file instead of the Settings (Implements: #461206).
• Change scroll direction in the annotation dialog's date edit fields to match common (western) expectations and the date picker.
• Prevent scrolling past the occupied areas of the date bar.
• Files are now always created with group read/write permissions (Fixes: #438128).
• When exiting the demo mode, the demo database is now always saved if it isn't deleted.

Dependencies

• CMake: 3.18
• Qt5: 5.15
• KDE Frameworks: 5.78

Fixed

• Improve readability of "Show Tooltips in Thumbnails Window" tooltip.
• Fix image selection order for newly added images (Fixes: 442325).
• Improve date bar behavior when zooming the date bar and changing views (Fixes: 357237).

Removed

• Default shortcut for "View" images was removed.
  Pressing "Enter" to open the viewer is now the preferred way. To restore the old behavior, reassign the shortcut via "Settings | Configure Keyboard Shortcuts...".

Thanks to everybody having contributed to this release! The authors were (according to git log and in alphabetical order):

• Christophe Giboudeaux
• Tobias Leupold
• Luigi Toscano
• Johannes Zarl-Zierl

Have a lot of fun with the new version!

— Tobias

Hotfix: KPhotoAlbum 5.9.106 Sep 2022

Due to a problem with releaseme's tarme.rb script, the release tarball for KPhotoAlbum 5.9.0 didn't contain any translation data. Alas, I noticed this not before the tarball already spread the mirrors, so we had to withdraw it an create a new one, with a bumped version number.

So here we are, KPhotoAlbum 5.9.1 is out now – even with translations now ;-)

— Tobias

KPhotoAlbum 5.9.0 out now!04 Sep 2022

It's been a while, but now, we're happy to announce the brand new release 5.9.0 of KPhotoAlbum, the KDE photo management program :-)

The new version includes (from the ChangeLog):

• Bugfix: Fix crash when forgetting to select images upon import (Fixes: 445404)
• Bugfix: Fix faulty assertion when video thumbnail files cannot be written (Fixes: 446258)
• Bugfix: Remove incomplete URL encoding of non-ASCII characters in HTML export (Fixes: 452458)
• Bugfix: Fix crash when reimporting deleted files from a .kim file (Fixes: 444792)
• Bugfix: Fix multiple issues identified by code analysis tools.
• Deprecation: Tip of the day feature was removed because it is no longer supported by KDE Frameworks.
• Enhancement: Generic file metadata (size, last changed date etc.) can now be viewed via the Exif metadata dialog.
• Enhancement: Support other video backends (libVLC, QtAV) in addition to Phonon.
• Enhancement: Add volume controls to video player.

Thanks to everybody having contributed to this release. The authors were (according to git log and in alphabetical order):

• Nicolás Alvarez
• Yuri Chornoivan
• Albert Astals Cid
• Pierre Etchemaïté
• Nicolas Fella
• Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
• Tobias Leupold
• Jesper K. Pedersen
• Snehit Sah
• Ömer Fadıl Usta
• Johannes Zarl-Zierl
• Henner Zeller

Have a lot of fun with the new version!

— Tobias

KPhotoAlbum 5.8.1 released11 Jul 2021

We're happy to annouce a new release of KPhotoAlbum, the KDE photo management software! It's version number is 5.8.1. The reason we skipped 5.8.0 is simply that i messed up the release, but the tag was already published – so I had to immediately tag another one ;-)

The new version includes (from the ChangeLog):

• Enhancement: The "Copy to/Move to" action (triggered by pressing F7/F8) can now be run both from the browser and the viewer, using the same interface and caching the same last target directory
• Change: Search field no longer gets focus by default (you can press '/' to focus)
• Enhancement: Improve focus switching behavior when using Tab/Shift-Tab
• Enhancement: Add freeform text search to thumbnail view (Implements #321502)
• Enhancement: UI improvements for MapView
• Enhancement: Performance improvement when many thumbnails are shown in the MapView
• Enhancement: Allow relative local URLs in "Open list of files" dialog
• Enhancement: Add option "--vacuum" to kpa-thumbnailtool
• Bugfix: Fix searching for label (introduced in version 5.4.1)
• Bugfix: Make splash screen text readable with dark themes
• Bugfix: Fix crash in context menu of full-screen preview of annotation dialog
• Change: Start maximized on first startup
• Change: Click behavior for overview page now honors system-preference for double- or single-click

Thanks to everybody having contributed to this release. The authors were (according to git log and in alphabetical order):

• Nicolás Alvarez
• Tomas Barton
• Wolfgang Bauer
• Nicolas Fella
• Robert Krawitz
• Tobias Leupold
• Pino Toscano
• Johannes Zarl-Zierl

Have a lot of fun with the new version!

— Tobias

Welcome KGeoTag!27 Feb 2021

Just a quick shout-out to Tobias who just released version 1.0.0 of KGeoTag. As you can probably guess from the version number, KGeoTag is quite a young project - though it already has some nice features.

What is KGeoTag?

You can use KGeoTag to assign image files to GPS locations. This can help you with remembering the exact location where a photo was taken, or with discovering images that were taken at the same place. Of course, this is most useful when used together with another program such as KPhotoAlbum, that can adequately display this information and lets you search by GPS coordinates ;-)

What can it do?

With KGeoTag, you can:

• Match image coordinates to GPX track files based on time information
• Drag and drop images to points on the map
• Store bookmarks for frequently used places
• Set the elevation (manually or by looking it up online)

The app shows assigned and unassigned images in different lists so that the current status is immediately obvious (showing all images in one list is also possible).

I find that it provides a nice workflow especially when there are “holes” in a GPX track where images can not be matched to a GPS datum with reasonable accuracy. In these cases I first load the images and the GPX track and let KGeoTag auto-assign most images. The remaining images can then be assigned manually and when I’m content with the outcome I save the coordinates into the image metadata.

If you are interested, check out the README.md file that comes with KGeoTag for more details.

— Johannes