KPhotoAlbum 3.0 released31 Dec 2006

It is with great pride that I here on the very last day of 2006 can announce the release of KPhotoAlbum 3.0

Major new Features

• KPhotoAlbum is now capable of categorizing and showing videos.
• Sub-categories are now shown as hierarchies in the browser and in the annotation dialog. In the annotation dialog it is possible to put an item into a sub-category simply by dragging it in there.

Minor new Features

• In the annotation dialog, it is now possible to scroll the list of selected items, but pressing arrow up and down.
• While typing in the annotation dialog, hide items that does not match the current typed text.
• In the viewer it is now possible to use mouse wheel to scroll to the next/prev image.
• Now it is possible to specify the icon size in used in the browser - esp usefull for showing larger images for persons in an icon view.
• It is now possible to use the search bar in the main window, when showing folders.
• The checkboxes in the annotation dialog are now tristate, which means that there are no need for the "merge" and "remove" checkboxes.
• Ensure every action's keybinding in the viewer is configurable
• Warn the user at start up if not all features are installed.
• New splash screen.
• It is now possible to bring up the exif dialog from the viewer.
• New option to show categories in the thumbnail view. Now it is also possible to set tokens directly in the thumbnail view.
• Show mega pixel in info box, and zoom factor in viewer.
• It is now possible to see the images in pixel by pixel mode.

Important Bugfixes

• Selection using the shift key and mouse button was broken if selected spanned several pages.
• Improved the selection handling in the thumbnail viewer.
• Changing the label for an image in the annotation dialog did not result in the label being updated in the thumbnail view.
• When renaming a category also rename the category thumbnails.
• Fixed a crash happening when saving after a category had been renamed, and that category was included in the privacy settings.
• Use alternate EXIF reading code in case EXIV2 is not installed.
• Bugfix: The panes in the annotation dialog would not show up correctly in translated version of KPhotoAlbum.
• Translated version of KPA would display image dates in English, but expect month input in the translated language. This has now been fixed so it expected input in English too.
• Somehow running the viewer always forced it to show in a new window, that was definitely against the design.
• Searching for description did not work.
• Improved support for the flickr plug-in. Now tags are correctly uploaded.
• Finally nailed down the bug where the annotation dialog did not show the first image preview.
• Directories only show the filename part now in the browser category directories.
• Fixed problem with windows layout not being read correctly if any category name contains non-latin1 character.
• In the settings dialog you were asked if you really wanted to delete a category. Despite your answer it would be deleted nevertheless.
• Renamed Persons to People and Locations to Places.
• Save configurations of special categories (should they be shown in the viewer etc).

Special Thank you

I'd like to bring a special thank you to the following people:

• Christoph Moseler for numerous bug fixes and feature enhancements (among other support for setting tokens in the thumbnail view).
• Clytie Siddall for helping out with the English text.
• Baptiste Mathus for lots of bug hunting
• Henner Zeller for support in the viewer for showing mega pixels
• Mark Jaroski for improved support for the flicker plug-in.
• Robert L Krawitz for improving the video detection, and for the pixel by pixel feature

New Homepage Layout30 Dec 2006

The winner of the splash screen competition has kindly created a new layout for the KPhotoAlbum Homepage. Thanks a lot Jaroslav Holaň.

KPhotoAlbum enters message freeze + price drawing contest10 Dec 2006

Today KPhotoAlbum entered message freeze, and is now ready to be translated. The release will happen Dec 31th 2006.

To bring a bit of attention to the great work the translators do I've started a small prize drawing contest which those with a complete translation of KPA participate in. The prize is $100.

I completely understands that $100 is not a whole lot of money, and this is merely to show some appreciation of their contribution.

Technicalities regarding the drawing:
Every person or team that has translated the messages in the application get one entry in the draw. Every person or team that has translated the user manual gets two entries in the draw. Only translations that are 100% complete counts.

The prize is $100 and will be transfered using paypal, so it is your responsibility to have a paypal account.

I'll extract the list of who checked in a revision latest in SVN (on dec 31th), and trust that the teams will figure out how to share the price in case several people contributed. (Heck in best case you will be able to go a couple of people to dinner, we are not talking millions here :-)

New snapshot + message freeze09 Dec 2006

A new snapshot has just been released, and at the same time, this means that KPhotoAlbum just have entered message freeze. No new feature, no new message strings, no minor tiny bugfixes, no, now it is almost time for a release party.

This does at the same time mean that everyone who have the slightest understanding of how to use a compiler should install this snapshot, so we can get as many bugs out of the way while waiting for the translators to do their magic.

New snapshot - KPA is frozen now14 Nov 2006

OK that is it, now KPA is really really frozen. Everyone please try KPA now and report every single issue you see. I will, however, try and prioritize bugs so that we can get something released now. ETA for the release 2007! Well jan 1th 00:00 2007 ;-)

New snapshot - KPA is soon freezing up14 Nov 2006

Yet another weekend working hard on KPhotoAlbum to get us closer to a release. Please everyone hold back anything but important bugs, so I can get the next version out of the door soon, plleeeeeeaaaase.

This snapshot is only bugfixes compared to the last one, except one new feature that Christoph Moseler managed to talk me into including. This features adds the possibilities to see categories in the thumbnail viewer. Also it is now also possible to assign tokens in the category viewer.