digiKam 0.9.2 - Release date: 2007-06-13

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NEW FEATURES:

General       : Light Table and Preview Mode can work with full image size instead a reduced one.
General       : digiKam has a new powerful tool to compare similar images side by side: 
                the Light Table. Demo and screenshots:
                    http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/221
                    http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/222

General       : Editor Tools have been merged into digiKam. It more simple to release
                on package for all. Image tools translations are hosted to digikam.po file 
                instead a .po file for each tool. All tools still available like tools at 
                the same place than image tool core.   
General       : New depency to RawEngine shared library used to decode RAW file.
                This library is shared between digiKam and external modules. The internal 
                dcraw version used is 8.60. digiKam support now all recent digital 
                camera RAW files released at PMA 2007.    
General       : Make size of icons used in sidebars configurable in order to allow more
                entries to be presented. 
General       : Make size of icons used in album icon view more configurable using a slider 
                in status bar. 
General       : Removing direct Exiv2 library depency. MetadataEngine interface is used everywhere 
                instead.  

Album GUI     : Add Zoom/Scrooling functions with preview mode.

Image Editor  : Usability improvement : a new pan tool is available on the right bottom 
                corner of canvas to naviguate over large pictures.
Image Editor  : Usability issue : Blowup and Resize tools have been merged.
Image Editor  : Usability issue : Unsharp Mask, Refocus, and Sharpen tools have been merged
                to a new Sharpness Editor.
Image Editor  : Usability issue : Reorganize menu structure
Image Editor  : Usability issue : persistant selection in all zoom mode.
Image Editor  : Add new option to fit on current selection.

Image Editor  : Red Eyes Correction tool have been completly re-writen. There is 
                a preview of effect and the capability to taint the eye pupil with
                a customized color. The new eye pupil can be blured to smooth the 
                result. 
Image Editor  : Solarize tool is now a "Color Effects" pack including Solarize, Velvia (new
                tool), Neon, and Edge effects. 
Image Editor  : Black & White converter now support a lots of B&W analog camera film 
                types (Agfa, Ilford, Kodak). A new 'strength' setting can simulate the 
                amount of Lens filters effect.  
Image Editor  : Update internal CImg library to 1.1.9. The Greycstoration algorithm used 
                by Restoration, Inpainting and Blowup tools is faster and optimized.

Showfoto      : The thumbbar is now resizable. The thumbnails contents can be redimensionned in live.
Showfoto      : The thumbbar items can show a full configurable tool tip like digiKam album icon 
                items tool tip.


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BUGFIXES:

001 ==> 142443 - Red eye correction should change eye colour to an alternate colour.
002 ==> 138744 - Dcraw 8.45 supports Pentax K10D.
003 ==> 142427 - Rotate image tool too complicated.
004 ==> 141439 - A velvia similar tool. AKA vivid saturation.
005 ==> 127583 - keywords, copyright, photographer info not saved to IPTC tags.
006 ==> 142571 - Auto-exposure result is different from the preview.
007 ==> 127377 - Restoration filter (CIMG) does not function properly.
008 ==> 131446 - Using inpainting tool crashes digiKam.
009 ==> 103244 - Usability: Merge multiple similar menus into one.
010 ==> 139790 - Image Editor: the center of the photo is moving when zooming in or out.
011 ==> 106508 - Please change scaling behavior.
012 ==> 137236 - Disable autozoom when picture fits in window.
013 ==> 103645 - Zoom in with rectangle tool selection.
014 ==> 126127 - Enlarge small images when autozoom is activated.
015 ==> 104439 - Use left mouse button to scroll image.
016 ==> 137391 - Picture navigation in image editor using the mouse.
017 ==> 102029 - Configurable size of icons in sidebars.
018 ==> 102029 - No/small icons in album tree.
019 ==> 131155 - Smooth increasing/decreasing size of thumbnails like in iPhoto.
020 ==> 089365 - Reorganize menu structure in Image Editor.
021 ==> 134037 - Respect current sort order when passing list to tools.
022 ==> 139466 - Remove configuration of digikam image tools.
023 ==> 119418 - "set as album thumbnail" should work for different albums too.
024 ==> 125916 - Problem with opening 16bit TIFF.
025 ==> 143578 - New Pan Tool crash.
026 ==> 118539 - Lossless image-editor for JPEGs.
027 ==> 133913 - sRGB profile white point may be incorrect.
028 ==> 116148 - Auto-scrolling when selecting large area.
029 ==> 134498 - Date stamp display option for photos in full-screen mode.
030 ==> 130525 - Saving large (>5M) jpg's result in corrupt file.
031 ==> 132047 - Faster display of images and/or prefetch wished for.
032 ==> 140131 - No zoom in image preview.
033 ==> 089365 - More standard menu structure.
034 ==> 144214 - The plural form of "child" is "children", not "childs".
035 ==> 124487 - No way to pause a slide show.
036 ==> 128975 - "Correct Exif Orientation Tag" does not change the mtime of the image file.
037 ==> 139814 - The window of digiKam exceed the screen if the resolution is 800x600.
038 ==> 144481 - Vertical window size cannot be reduced to VGA resolution.
039 ==> 136254 - Editing tags does not change IPTC-keywords. 
040 ==> 135048 - Easily compare similar images using a light-table.
041 ==> 145159 - Improvements to the light-table.
042 ==> 145204 - Small issues with the light-table.
043 ==> 145227 - Change ratings via short-cuts in the light-table.
044 ==> 145236 - Small wishes for the light-table.
045 ==> 145237 - Small wishes for the light-table (2).
046 ==> 145170 - Always allow zooming in/out in imageeditor.
047 ==> 145078 - Ctrl-Y untied from Redo.
048 ==> 145083 - Space and Shift-Space isn't used for navigation between images.
049 ==> 145077 - Ctrl-W and Ctrl-Q shortcuts not tied to proper actions:fixed
050 ==> 145558 - In menu view: window size/original size: ctrl-shift-z obsolete?
051 ==> 144640 - CTRL-P does nothing in Album GUI: fixed to print action
052 ==> 144643 - Ctrl-Shift-A does not deselect in Album GUI: fixed
053 ==> 144644 - Ctrl-0 does not set zoom to 100% in Preview mode: Alt+Ctrl+0
054 ==> 144650 - Shift-Space doesn't work as PageUp.
055 ==> 145079 - Ctrl-A, Ctrl-Shift-A don't peform proper selection actions.
056 ==> 145627 - Showfoto /path/to/directory doesn't work, while the "open dir" feature exists.
057 ==> 146012 - Dragging an image over a tag in "tag filters" panel crashes digiKam.
058 ==> 146032 - Panning doesn't work in Light Table.
059 ==> 145198 - Light-table should also work with the full image.
060 ==> 146072 - Slideshow shows black screen.
061 ==> 146184 - Showfoto no filename specified .
062 ==> 144590 - English labels need cleanup in digiKam.
063 ==> 146436 - digiKam try to include Exiv2 library headers.
064 ==> 146464 - Light Table does not deal with colour management.
065 ==> 142133 - Typo English documentation docbook.
066 ==> 146744 - Tag that contains '&' is not displayed correctly in menus.
