What is KIPI?

KIPI (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an effort to develop a common plugin structure for Digikam, KPhotoAlbum, Showimg and GwenView. Its aim is to share image plugins among graphic applications. Kipi is based on the old digiKam plugins implementation.

One of the nicest things about KDE Photo Management Programs like "digiKam", "KPhotoAlbum", "GwenView" and "ShowImg" is how easily its functionality can be extended, by using plugins. Plugins can manipulate image files in almost any way that users can. Their advantage is that it is much easier to add a capability to the host application by writing a small plugin than by modifying the host application core. Many valuable plugins have C++ source code that only comes to 100-200 lines or so.

Kipi plugins are additional functions for the KDE Images Managment Host Programs. They can add extra menus and shortcuts, and extend the host programs features. You can install as many or as few as you like, from within host programs.

More information on using and enabling the plugins you want is available in the host program handbook.

Libkdcraw 0.1.4 released

Posted March 14th, 2008 by Valerio Fuoglio

NEW FEATURES

  • updated dcraw to 8.83
    new cameras: Apple QuickTake 200, Fuji IS-1, Sony DSLR-A350, Pentax K20D, Nokia N95, Canon PowerShots A460, Canon PowerShots A530, Canon PowerShots A650.
  • updated dcraw to 8.82
    new cameras: Sony DSLR-A200, Sony DSLR-A700, Sony XCD-SX910CR, STV680 VGA

No new options introduced.

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And finally .... kipi-plugins 0.1.5 !!!

Posted March 14th, 2008 by Valerio Fuoglio

After two release candidates, kipi-plugins 0.1.5 is finally out :)

NEW FEATURES

  • SimpleViewerExport
    • plugin is now compatible with SimpleViewer version 1.8.x.
    • plugin now support RAW files format.
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    Kipi-plugins 0.1.5 rc2

    Posted February 2nd, 2008 by Valerio Fuoglio

    We're proud to announce our kipi-plugins 0.1.5 rc2.

    NEW FEATURES

  • PrintWizard
    • caption can contain more exif info
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    Another gift!!! Kipi-plugins 0.1.5-rc1

    Posted December 29th, 2007 by Valerio Fuoglio

    Another XMas present (don't tell it's too late :P ), kipi-plugins-0.1.5-rc1, with a lot of new tasty features...

    NEW FEATURES

  • General
    • Added the availability to disable plugins we don't want to build. This feature is very useful for source based distros (Matej Laitl)
  • PrintWizard
    • Added raw file management, now raw files can be printed.
  • SlideShow
    • Solved minor issue in filename printing (2D slideshow).
    • New caching mechanism
    • Added Ken Burns effect
  • Calendar
    • Fixed recurring events not showing (only first date was showed)
    • Setting special events only once (before printing), instead of one for every page.
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    Our Christmas gift : new libkdcraw 0.1.3

    Posted December 28th, 2007 by Valerio Fuoglio

    Our never-lazy project coordinator, Angelo Naselli, worked hard these holidays to package a new release of libkdcraw, and.... here it is libkdcraw-0.1.3 :)

    Let's see new features ...

    New features

    Updated dcraw to 8.80
    • New cameras: Hasselblad H3D, Olympus E-3, Canon EOS 40D, Canon PowerShot G9, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, AVT F-080C, Nikon D3, Nikon D300, Nikon Coolpix S6, Panasonic DMC-FZ18, Sony DSLR-A700
    • New option -m number_of_passes : After interpolation, clean up color artifacts by repeatedly applying a 3x3 median filter to the R-G and B-G channels.
    • Licence is GPL compatible again
    Updated dcraw to 8.81
    • New cameras: Canon G7, Fuji FinePix S9100/S9600, Olympus SP560UZ, Panasonic DMC-L10

    New kipi-plugins beta version is out!

    Posted October 11th, 2007 by Valerio Fuoglio

    Hi to all,
    from today new kipi-plugins 0.1.5 is out.

    NEW FEATURES

  • PrintWizard
    • Wizard GUI review
    • Added exif management
    • Prints exif date-time info
    • Font, color and size of captions
    • Added an option to to print without margins (full-bleed)
    • Added 10x13.33cm into a4 (provided by Joerg Kuehne)
    • Added full size A4 printing (one photo per A4 page)
    • Added A6 size to get the old configuration for 10x15cm page
    • Changed page size to real 10x15cm instead of A6 (need to set up right page size on kprinter)
    • Added a new page size 13x18cm (need to set up right page size on kprinter)
    • Each photo can be printed more than once
  • PicasaWebExport
    • New plugin to export pictures to Picasa web service (by Vardhman Jain).
  • SlideShow
    • Dropped imlib2 dependency
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    New libkexiv2 0.1.6 is out

    Posted September 17th, 2007 by Valerio Fuoglio

    It's release time, after libkdcraw, libkexiv2 has been released.
    Let's see what's new ...


    ADVICE

    API Changed : Kexiv2 destructor is now virtual.
    Krazy Code Checker fix


    Bugs fixed from B.K..O.
    001 ==> 137750 : color mode2 nikon d70s not recognized as adobe rgb
    002 ==> 149267 : digiKam crashes after finding gif,avi,txt and so on.
    003 ==> 148182 : Iptc.Application2.Keywords appends always the 0-byte.

    Libkdcraw 0.1.2 released

    Posted September 17th, 2007 by Valerio Fuoglio

    New libkdcraw 0.1.2 is finally released

    New features

    • updated internal dcraw from 8.60 to 8.77. API changed.
    • add new chromatic aberration reduction options (patch from Guillaume Castagnino).

    New KIPI-Plugins 0.1.4 is out

    Posted July 2nd, 2007 by Valerio Fuoglio

    Final release is out, you can get it from sourceforge.

    What has changed into 0.1.4 release:

    NEW FEATURES

  • HTMLExport
    • Option to specify whether the original images should be included
  • HTMLExport
    • Support for theme variants
  • HTMLExport
    • New theme: "frames", by Rüdiger Bente
  • HTMLExport
    • New theme: "cleanframes", by Beth and Robert Marmorstein
  • HTMLExport
    • New theme: "classic", simulating the output of the old HTML Gallery plugin
  • SlideShow
    • Skip to next or previous image by a right or left click
  • SlideShow
    • Skip to next or previous image by mouse wheel scrolling
  • SlideShow
    • Images can be sorted/added/removed manually.
  • SlideShow
    • Progress indicator printing doesn't depend on file name printing anymore.
  • General
    • Moved Exiv2Iface class to a new shared library named libkexiv2 used by kipi-plugins and digiKam.
  • ImageViewer
    • initial import of new OpenGL based image viewer.
  • RAWConverter
    • Port plugin to libkdcraw shared library.
  • Printwizard
    • Printwizard can print 8 photos per page (A4).
  • MPEGEncoder
    • Avoid to pass to img2mpg script unmanaged file path.
  • GPSSync
    • New plugin to export GPS locations from pictures to Google Maps / Google Earth.
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