digiKam 0.9.1 - Release date: 2007-03-04

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NEW FEATURES :

General       : New JPEG2000 image loader using Jasper library witch 
                can support 16 bits color depth pictures.
General       : New optimized layout to show Comments & Tags side bar contents.
General       : Tags View from Comments & Tags side bar support drag & drop.
General       : New Batch tool to sync all images metadata (EXIF/IPTC) with 
                digiKam database content.
General       : Add a status bar to Album Gui with a progress bar, text bar, 
                and navigate bar.
General       : New SlideShow tool witch use the Image Preview feature. 
                RAW files can be slided very fast.
General       : Slideshow tool: new option to slide an album tree in recursive mode.
General       : Slideshow tool: add capability to print photograph information during slide.
General       : Slideshow tool: preparing slideshow is now cancelable.

Album View    : Improvement of pop-up menu of Tags Filter View and Comment & Tags about auto selection/deselection of parents/childs tags in Tags treeview.
Album View    : Main Root album show a Welcome page for new users.
Album View    : Video files can be previewed using an embedded instance of default media player.
Album View    : Preview picture mode use a memory cache to speed-up loading.
Album View    : Preview picture mode pride a context pop-up menu.
Album View    : Comments & Tags now support multiple selection of items to apply properties.
Album View    : New option to set the action to do when user right click on picture thumb: Load on Image Editor or Show an embedded preview.
Album View    : Prefer Exif DateTimeOriginal for sorting images (DateTimeDigitized and DateTime only used as fallback)

Image Editor  : All tools remember settings between sessions.
Image Editor  : All tools render properly preview of image using Color Managed View.
Image Editor  : All tools use the same keyboard shortcuts than PhotoShop.
Image Editor  : New option in all Color corrections Tools to show under-exposed 
                and over-exposed areas of corrected picture before to apply corrections.
Image Editor  : Brightness/Contrast/Gamma : settings value excursion are the same 
                than Photoshop.
Image Editor  : Add Border Tool : add new option to preserve aspect ratio. Border Width 
                can be set in pixels or in percents accordingly with this setting.
Image Editor  : Perspective Tool : add a grid and vertical/horizontal guide lines.
Image Editor  : Ratio-crop Tool : usability improvements from Jaromir Malenko.
Image Editor  : Auto Color Correction Tool : add new filter to perform 
                auto-exposure corrections.
Image Editor  : all tools : capability to remember settings between tool
                sessions to store configuration in a settings file.
Image Editor  : Add new advanced options to keep ratio and alignment about print pictures.
Image Editor  : Add 2 new advanced options to show under-exposed or over-exposed pixels.
Image Editor  : Remove View->Histogram menu option. We have a better histogram 
                available in sidebar.
Image Editor  : Color profiles are tested now to avoid invalid files.
Image Editor  : JPEG/PNG/TIFF/JPEG2000 file save settings are now available in 
                File Save dialog.
Image Editor  : JPEG file save settings include a red warning about this lossy 
                compression image format with a link to wikipedia to aware users.

Import Tool   : New option to set metadata DateTime/PhotographerId/Copyright Exif and/or IPTC tags on the fly.
Import Tool   : JPEG Exif thumbnail and Iptc image preview are recomputed during Exif Auto-rotation.
Import Tool   : digiKam theme support.

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BUGFIXES:

001 --> 115157 - Usability: Image comments/tags dialog: hard to find/see all already selected tags (and to 'de'select them).
002 --> 132309 - Wish: enhance video support in digiKam.
003 --> 115153 - Assigns tags not only to selected images with drag and drop.
004 --> 131743 - Comments and tag edit widgets should retain focus when changing image.
005 --> 140412 - Comments/Tags sidebar steels focus.
006 --> 137491 - Editor image cache not flush when an image is modified outside digiKam.
007 --> 138949 - Save/overwrite fails: wrong dialog.
008 --> 139197 - Crash during import of raw imagefiles (DNG).
009 --> 139313 - UTF-8 image comments are mangled when input from image editor.
010 --> 136903 - If partition gets full during camera/card copy there is no warning and empty files are created.
011 --> 133955 - Rating search: less, equal, and larger comparison.
012 --> 139547 - Tag hierarchy automatic fill.
013 --> 138816 - gpcamera.cpp compile failure CameraList camList.
014 --> 093542 - Improvements to digiKam print interface.
015 --> 139658 - Tiff generated by photoshop is either ignored by digiKam image browser, or kills digiKam when regenerating the database.
016 --> 102032 - Wish: rating system for photos, show/hide/sort by rating.
017 --> 111446 - Bad behaviour when out of disk space.
018 --> 133516 - Tags set in Comments/Tags end up on the wrong picture.
019 --> 140136 - Aspect ratio crop and selection widget improvements.
020 --> 131600 - Set tag for multiple selection of images.
021 --> 137545 - Helper lines / cross wanted.
023 --> 131170 - Add grid/auxiliary lines for perspective correction tool.
024 --> 138158 - Allow to edit multiple image tags/comments at same time.
025 --> 140234 - Thumbnail click default action.
026 --> 135141 - Border size in pixel.
027 --> 137696 - Border extent should not follow image aspect ratio.
028 --> 138444 - More clear/consistent color management terminology.
029 --> 140176 - Showfoto crashes when selecting a filter.
030 --> 130237 - Typos in digiKam tool files.
031 --> 138925 - External modules config dialog lacks a select all button.
032 --> 140038 - digiKam Image Editor crash on right click after changing toolbar.
033 --> 139766 - Crash when displaying EXIF metadata with Unicode comment
034 --> 130017 - Wish: batch operation to save existing comments in the files.
035 --> 140320 - View menu should better fit after Edit.
036 --> 127617 - "Toggle Fullscreen" should be located in "View" menu instead of "Settings" menu.
038 --> 139264 - digiKam sorts pictures with wrong exif tag.
039 --> 140417 - Crash digiKam when delete image.
040 --> 110514 - Enhanced selection, refactored histogram.
041 --> 140933 - Typo: Album Library Path.
042 --> 141190 - digikam crash when invalid ICM file at color profile directory and you enter into PREFERENCES->COLOR SPACE PROFILES.
043 --> 123649 - JPEG/PNG quality settings at the "save" dialog.
044 --> 116518 - Use tool for displaying slideshows.
045 --> 140304 - Start slideshow from the current image.
046 --> 140303 - slideshow must be relocated to View menu from tools menu.
047 --> 137503 - Tags are not written to image file automatically.
048 --> 136254 - Editing tags does not change IPTC-keywords.
049 --> 135655 - Proper full screen mode (no menu, toolbar, statusbar, sidebars).
050 --> 142088 - Build fails when MetadataEngine is in $PREFIX, but not standard include directories
051 --> 140227 - remove or modify D&D tags menu from icon view area (improvements, not finished)
052 --> 142109 - Turn under/over exposure display on/off by click on corresponding icons
053 --> 141663 - Keep getting prompted to Apply Comments
054 --> 139024 - Camera GUI new items selection doesn't work
055 --> 139547 - Tag hierarchy automatic fill
056 --> 141626 - Bugs in german translation
057 --> 141786 - Confirmation dialog during rename to existing file does n...
058 --> 141924 - Tags preview not updated in last image of album
059 --> 141934 - Incorrect capitalized string: "back to album"
060 --> 141961 - Long comments truncated in slideshow
