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 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)

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Internal dcraw.c implementation have been replaced by LibRaw.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.

What's a code sprint?

According to Wikipedia definintion:
"A sprint is a time-boxed period of software development focused on a given list of goals (but with variable scope). [...]
Sprints are organized around the ideas of Extreme Programming discipline of software development. The sprint is directed by the coach, who suggests tasks, tracks their progress and makes sure that no one is stuck. Most of the development happens in pairs. A large open space is often chosen as a venue for efficient communication.[...]
A significant benefit of sprinting is that the project members meet in person, socialize, and start to communicate more effectively when working together remotely."

Where & When

The event will be sponsored by KDE-ev.

Who

Developers who will contribute (sorted by last name):

From Digikam team:

• Gilles Caulier - from Salon de provence, France
• Marcel Wiesweg - Essen, Germany

From KIPI-Plugins team:

• Andrea Diamantini - from Senigallia, Italy
• Valerio Fuoglio - from Genoa, Italy
• Aurélien Gâteau - from Paris, France
• Colin Guthrie - Edinburgh, Scotland
• Vardhman Jain - Bombay, India
• Angelo Naselli - Genoa, Italy
• Kåre Särs - Vasa, Finland

If you wanna meet us during this event, you're welcome!

Aim

• finish the digiKam KDE4 porting
• improve the kipi-plugins KDE4 porting
• create an general purpose export plugin that implements picasa, flickr, Gallery, etc.
• improve libkipi
• review/freeze the API of libksane
• improve documentation
• libkipi, libkexiv2 and libkdcraw into kdegraphics what to do to avoid ABI breakage

We want to thanks...

We want to thanks in advance KDE-ev and ALID Association to make this event possible. If you want to help this Italian association, all donations are welcome. Just contact Angelo Nasseli for details.

Another relase is ready!

Welcome to Gilles Caulier's new born plugin : DNGConverter.

This plugin can batch convert RAW camera images to Adobe DNG container (take a look at Wikipedia for details). To compile it, you need last libkdcraw from svn trunk, its stable release has been planned for KDE 4.2. release.

NEW FEATURES

DNGConverter

• New plugin to convert RAW camera image to Digital NeGative (DNG)

SlideShow

• Now you can play your favourite music during slideshow.

Here it is! Fist KDE4 kipi's release!

To compile this KDE4 version, you need libkexiv2, libkdcraw, and libkipi for KDE4. These libraries are now included in KDE core with kdegraphic component.

NEW FEATURES

General

• Port to CMake/KDE4/QT4.

JPEGLossLess

• XMP metadata support.

RAWConverter

• XMP metadata support
• Raw files are decoded in 16 bits color depth using same auto-gamma and auto-white methods provided by dcraw with 8 bits color depth RAW image decoding.

TimeAdjust

• XMP metadata support.

MetadataEdit

• XMP metadata support with EXIF, IPTC, and Comments editor to sync XMP tags.
• IPTC Editor dialog is more compliant with IPTC.org recommendations.
• IPTC Editor add the capability to set multiple values for a tag.

SendImages

• Complete re-write of emailing tool.

GPSSync

• New tool to edit GPS track list using googlemaps.

SlideShow

• Now filenames, captions and progress indicators can have transparent backgrounds with OpenGL SlideShow as well.
• Added thumbnails into image list.

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.

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.

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

NEW FEATURES

PrintWizard

caption can contain more exif info

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.