Major feature enhancements and bugs fixed (see ChangeLog).

New Features:

• Database added to manage images using KexiDB ( screenshots),
• Video support added (screenshots),
• SVG support added (screenshots),
• RAR archive file support added.

Bugs Fixed:

About KexiDB

KexiDB is powerfull database library which can be used by KDE applications. Showimg employs KexiDB to manage image databases.

More information

   ShowImg-0.9.5 rc1 released.

Major feature enhancements and bugs fixed (see ChangeLog).

New Features:

• Database added to manage images using KexiDB ( screenshot),
• Video support added (screenshot),
• SVG support added (screenshot),
• RAR archive file support added.

Bugs Fixed:

About KexiDB

KexiDB is powerfull database library which can be used by KDE applications. Showimg employs KexiDB to manage image databases.

More information

   ShowImg-0.9.4-1 released. Only one bug fixed (compilation buf fixed to use both libkexif 0.1 or 0.2.1).

   ShowImg-0.9.4 released. Major feature enhancements and bugs fixed (see ChangeLog).

New Features:

main:

• 'cd archive' feature added (see screenshot),
• kipi plugin support added (see screenshot ),
• kpart support added.

miscellaneous:

• 'zoom' combobox added in the toolbar,
• operations (clear/update) on cached thumbnails added,
• 'go to next/previous directory' action added (Ctrl-space and Alt-space),
• 'checkboxes' in directory view added,
• network tranparency to showimgpart added (thanks OGINO Tomonori),
• scroll image with mouse wheel added (press 'middle button' then use wheel),
• ability to choose the position of the displayed image,
• ability to choose external program paths,
• archive without a 'good' extension can be browsed,
• 'sort by path and name' added,
• thumbnails are now stored in the common ~/.thumbnails/ directory,
• new icons for 'layouts' (thanks Aewyn).

EXIF:

• 'batch rename' now can use EXIF meta-information for renaming (thanks Dominik Seichter for krename, www.krename.net/) and date/time format can be choosed (see screenshot),
• a panel with EXIF data added (see screenshot ),
• kexif dialog added,
• orientation EXIF tag used,
• embedded EXIF thumbnail can be (re)generated (see screenshot ),
• orientation EXIF tag can be changed,
• 'EXIF preview' added,
• 'force thumbnail' generation added,
• the displayed date is the 'CreationDate' EXIF tag.

Bugs Fixed:

main:

• bug fixed when a 'big' directory is loaded (1.000 images 0.9.3: 5.30minutes, 0.9.4: ~2sec),
• improved speed for rotation/flip operations (2160x1440 0.9.3: ~9sec, 0.9.4: <1sec)
• 'Strange window resisizing problem' fixed,
• showimg does not freeze when there are a lot of small thumbnails,
• bug with 1x?? and ??x1 image size fixed,
• 'better' refresh when archive files are created with external programs,
• environment variable names in the Location bar parsed,
• 'file:' protocole fixed (use 'file://localhost/my/path/myfile', see http://freedesktop.org/Main/Draganddropwarts),
• code cleaned and fixed according to http://www.icefox.net/kde/tests/report.html.

miscellaneous:

• the 'batch rename' feature use the current order,
• bugs in 'tmp' directories fixed,
• the KURL paths when files are moved/copied are fixed,
• numerous layouts added,
• 'LICENCE.EXC' added,
• compile fixes for win32,
• '#ifndef Q_WS_WIN' added,
• i18n style guide fixes,
• compilation bugs fixed with kipi,
• QProcessesDialog replaced by KProcessesDialog,
• QSting ascii method replaced by QFile::encodeName,
• 'days of week' translated,
• repetitions between kipi-plugins and showimg features removed,
• drag'n'drop when several directories are selected fixed,
• bugs in slideshow fixed,
• bugs in 'convert format' dialog fixed,
• configure.in.in: not used and not part of our minimum requirement autoconf 2.52.

   ShowImg-0.9.3 released. Minor feature enhancements and bugs fixed (see ChangeLog).

• new translations and documentations,
• archive support improved,
• fix bugs with special chars in folder name,
• more data under thumbnails,
• files and directories sorted using numeric order,
• ``store thumbnails'' added,
• icons added,
• option ``open image in fullscreen mode'' added,
• ``tip of day'' added.

• bugs fixed with kde 3.2.x (as the ``open with'' bug),
• some compilation rules fixed,
• pb with file containaing '#, '%', ... solved, ...
• code cleaned.

   ShowImg-0.9.1 released. Minor bugs fixed (see ChangeLog).

   ShowImg-0.9.0 released. Major feature enhancements and bugs fixed.

The main new feature is the Digikam plugins support (see new screenshots).
Changelog (since ShowImg 0.8.1):

• Digikam plugins supported (with './configure --enable-digiKam-plugin', see 'INSTALL'),
• URL toolbar added,
• can load a file from an URL using http/ftp protocol,
• 'Save As...' added,
• layouts added,
• Shift+Wheel enlarge/shrink picture,
• zoom feaures added in a new separated toolbar,
• new translations (da, de, en_GB, es, et, fr, it, ja, nl, pt_BR, pt, ru, sk, sr, sv, ta, tr, zh_CN),
• ...

• the children of a directory are updated when it's renamed,
• menus have been cleaned and a new one have been added,
• 'look'n'feel' bugs fixed,
• bugs with specials chars fixed,
• lots of annoying bugs...
• ...

  ShowImg is now part of Kde Extra Gear. The Extra Gear is a collection of KDE applications that are associated with the KDE project. Those apps are not part of the KDE Distribution but they are still part of the project.

   ShowImg-0.8.1 released. Feature enhancements, bugs fixed, code cleaned (thanks Guillaume about the TIFF problem) (cf. ChangeLog).

   ShowImg-0.8.0 released. Feature enhancements and bugs fixed (cf. ChangeLog).

   ShowImg-0.8 Beta2 released. Minor feature enhancements and bugs fixed (cf. ChangeLog).

Remark: I'm looking for people to help me with the Japanese translation.

   ShowImg-0.8 Beta1 released. Major feature enhancements (cf. ChangeLog).

   ShowImg-0.7 released. Major feature enhancements (cf. ChangeLog).

   ShowImg 0.7 will be released in few weeks and I'm looking for translators. For the moment, only french, english and german translations are available. Please, contact me at rgroult@jalix.org is you're interested in.

  Major bug fixed.

   ShowImg 0.6.5 available.

  rpm and deb available.

   First release of ShowImg.