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.

KIPI-plugins 1.0.0 released

Posted December 22nd, 2009 by Valerio Fuoglio

Here it is, a brand new version of Kipi-plugins.
Get it here!! :)

KIPI-plugins 0.9.0 released

Posted December 2nd, 2009 by Valerio Fuoglio

KIPI-plugins 0.9.0 has been released, you can easily download its source here.

NEW FEATURES

  • GPSSync : bookmark locations

Kipi-plugins 0.8.0 for KDE4 is finally out!

Posted November 9th, 2009 by Valerio Fuoglio

Kipi-plugins 0.8.0 maintenance release for KDE4 is out.

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. Take a look at KDE-Windows project for details.

NEW FEATURES

  • KioImportExport : New plugin to import or export images via FTP, Samba, Fish (SSH) and many more using KIO slaves.
  • AcquireImages : Under windows, use Twain interface from libksane to factorize code.
  • Shwup : New plugin to export images to Shwup web service (http://www.shwup.com).
  • General : All plugins ported to Qt4/KDE4. Qt3 transition class support is now dropped.
  • PrintAssistant : New templates management.
  • PrintAssistant : Icon preview for photo size choice.
  • PrintAssistant : Caption per photo management.
  • PrintAssistant : Added new templates for passport photos (6 photos 3.5x4cm and 4 photos 4.5x5cm).

kipi-plugins 0.2.0 is out!

Posted March 22nd, 2009 by Valerio Fuoglio

Official kipi-plugins 0.2.0 release for KDE4 is out.

kipiplugins0.2.0

kipi-plugins 0.2.0 tarball can be downloaded from SourceForge at this url

Kipi-plugins is also available for Windows. Precompiled packages can be donwloaded by KDE-Windows installer. See KDE-Windows project for details.

See below the list of new features and bugs-fix coming with this release:

KIPI-plugins 1.1.0 released

Posted February 3rd, 2009 by Valerio Fuoglio

KIPI developers released another great edition of kipi-plugins

NEW FEATURES:
ExpoBlending : New tool to make pseudo HDR image with a stack of bracketed images.
PrintAssistant : New custom grid layout.
PrintAssistant : Filling page with custom size images.

kipi-plugins 0.2.0-beta6 release for KDE4

Posted January 8th, 2009 by Valerio Fuoglio

KIPI development team is happy to release the 6th KDE4 beta version of plugins.
To compile this KDE4 version, you need libkexiv2, libkdcraw, and libkipi for KDE4. These libraries are now included in KDE core with kdegraphic component

With this new release, a new plugin named FbExport is born. It's dedicated to export images to FaceBook web service.

A plugin dedicated to export images to SmugMug web service is also available since beta5.

NEW FEATURES

  • FbExport
    • New plugin to export images to a remote Facebook web service (http://www.facebook.com)
  • FlickrExport
    • Add support of Photosets.
  • SmugExport
    • Add support for Album Templates.

    KIPI-plugins 0.2.0-beta3

    Posted November 2nd, 2008 by Admin

    KIPI development team is happy to release the 3rd KDE4 beta version of plugins.
    To compile this KDE4 version, you need libkexiv2, libkdcraw, and libkipi for KDE4. These libraries are now included in KDE core with kdegraphic component

    With this new release, Kipi-plugins is now compilable under Windows using MinGW and Microsoft Visual C++. Precompiled packages are available with KDE-Windows installer. Take a look at http://windows.kde.org for details.

    NEW FEATURES

  • General
    • all plugins can be compiled natively under Microsoft Windows.

    KIPI-plugins 0.1.6

    Posted October 12th, 2008 by Valerio Fuoglio

    Kipi development team is happy to release the last KDE3 release of plugins.
    Please, consult the README file. There are optional depencies to enable some plugins as libxml2 for HTLMExport or OpenGL for SlideShow tool.

    This will be the last version of kipi-plugins published for KDE3. Team will concentrate development on KDE4 port (future 0.2.0 release)

    Libkdcraw 0.1.6 released

    Posted October 12th, 2008 by Valerio Fuoglio

    This release is a backport of current implementation from KDE4 based on LibRaw 0.6.1 Raw decoder.
    For more informations, take a look at this blog entry: http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/372

    Internal dcraw.c implementation have been replaced by LibRaw.

    NEW FEATURES

    • new cameras: Canon 50D, Sony A900, Nikon D90 & P6000, and Panasonic LX3 FZ28.

    No new options introduced.