Kipi 0..3 Beta 1 review

Kipi (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an effort to develop a common plugin structure for Digikam, KimDaBa, Showimg and Gwenview. Ki

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Kipi (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an effort to develop a common plugin structure for Digikam, KimDaBa, Showimg and Gwenview.

Kipi's aim is to share image plugins among graphic applications. Kipi is based on the old digiKam plugins implementation and is maintened by digiKam team.

Kipi is based on the old digiKam plugins (0.6.x series) implementation.

Currently implemented plugins are listed below:

GalleryExport: Interface for export images collections to remote Gallery web
server.
RawConverter: A raw image converter for digital cameras.
SlideShow: Slideshow with effects ripped out from kslideshow and 3D effects
using OpenGL.
MpegEncoder: Create an MPEG slideshow from your images.
ImagesGallery: An HTML gallery generator.
PrintWizard: A wizard to print images in various format.
JpegLossLess: Batch process your JPEG images without losing meta information
and compression.
CdArchiving: Archive your albums on CD or DVD using K3b.
ScanImages: Scanner management using Kooka.
ScreenshotImages: Snap screen based on KSnapshot and adapted to Kipi.
Calendar: A plugin to create calendars.
SendImages: A plugin to send images by email, allowing resizing and
recompressing before sending.
RenameImages: Batch image renamer.
ConvertImages: Batch image converter.
BorderImages: Add border to your images in batch.
FilterImages: Batch image enhancer using digital filters.
ColorImages: Batch image color enhancer.
EffectImages: Batch image transformation effects.
ResizeImages: Batch image resizer.
RecompressImages: Batch image recompressor.
FindDuplicateImages: Find duplicate images in albums.
WallPaper: Set your image as wallpaper.
TimeAdjust: Adjust image file time and date.
KameraKlient: digiKam 0.6.2 Gphoto2 interface ported as a Kipi plugin
(disable to digiKam 0.7.x series).

What's New in This Release:
New Plugin : MetadataEdit : New kipi plugin to edit EXIF and IPTC pictures metadata (by Gilles Caulier).
New Plugin : GPSSync : New kipi plugin to sync photo metadata with a GPS device (by Gilles Caulier).
New Plugin : IpodExport : New kipi plugin to export pictures to an ipod device (by Seb Ruiz).
GalleryExport : Support for multiple galleries.
HTMLExport : New "s0" theme from Petr Vanek
JPEGLossLess : Removed libmagic++ depency.
JPEGLossLess : Removed libkexif depency. Using Exiv2 instead.
RAWConverter : New core to be compatible with recent dcraw release. A lot of RAW decoding settings have been added.
RAWConverter : Embedding ouput color space in target image (JPEG/PNG/TIFF).
RAWConverter : Metadata preservation in target image during Raw conversion (JPEG/PNG).
RAWConverter : Removing external dcraw depency. Now plugin include a full supported version of dcraw program in core.
RAWConverter : updated dcraw.c implementation to version 8.41.
SendImages : Added image size limit x mail.
TimeAdjust : Removed libkexif depency. Using Exiv2 instead.
TimeAdjust : New option to customize Date and Time to a specific timestamp.
TimeAdjust : New options sync EXIF/IPTC Creation Date with timestamp.