Submitted by admin on Sat, 2009-01-24 03:19
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A first release candidate of version 0.10.0 of digiKam, the KDE digital photo downloader and manager, has been released. Major changes include:
- Use of multi-threading to generate thumbnails
- Port to CMake and removal of direct X11 library dependencies, so it's portable to Windows and Mac
- Preview of audio & video files using Phonon
- Usability improvements to allow running on small screens (such as on netbooks)
- Support for XMP metadata
- Now depends on libkexiv2 v0.5.0 and libkdcraw v0.4.0
- New design for camera interface
- New capture tool
- Bar graph in camera GUI to show free space on camera
- Thumb-bar with Preview mode to make it easy to navigate between images
- Improved searching, including ability to search metadata, image properties and geography, and to find similar and duplicate images
- New plugin to correct lens aberrations
- New Raw import tool to handle Raw pictures with customized decoding settings
- All image plugin dialogs are removed. All tools are embedded in editor window
- 363 bug fixes
For full changelog, see the link above. Screenshots here, source download here. For full dependency list see here, but it includes Qt 4.3 (4.4 recommended) and KDE 4 (4.1 recommended). (Corrected.)