We received a lot of excellent user feedback after publishing the 4th
digiKam 6 release in September 2019. We are now proud to briefly announce the
new digiKam 6.4.0, a maintenance version which consolidates this feedback
and acts as an important phase of this 3-year-old project.
The Plugins Interface “DPlugins” Extended Again
With 6.1.0, digiKam project has introduced the new DPlugins interface to customize and extend the application.
This powerful interface, available in digiKam and Showfoto, already manage all Generic tools to import/export
items or edit metadata, Image Editor re-touch tools (colors editing, Transforms, Decorate, Effects, etc.),
Batch Queue Manager tools to process many files at once.
Thank you for this wonderful release! Finally I can use my Galaxy A40 to shoot in the HEIF format! This saves me from 40% to 50% file size!!! Thank you!
There is obviously a packaging error of the file digikam-6.4.0.tar.xz, this file has ~3x the filesize of the previous versions:
ls digikam* -l
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 339472960 1. Aug 08:52 digikam-6.2.0.tar.xz
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 335641824 5. Sep 20:44 digikam-6.3.0.tar.xz
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 994894156 2. Nov 20:42 digikam-6.4.0.tar.xz
There is a new folder in ./project/scripts/ named site which contains a complete(?) git checkout of digikam with 835MB of data.
Does anyone know if Raw Import is supposed to work with Windows 10 ?
I tried it with Raw Therapee: the editor is not loaded, like if it is not installed or found on the system.
I’m glad to see digikam has HEIF support now! I just upgraded and for the most part it’s working. However, digikam is not reading/displaying any of the HEIF metadata. Is this expected?
It is expected at this stage. I already asked on digikam users mailing list. Digikam relies on exiv2 for metadata handling and exiv2 isn’t supporting HEIF format yet. They are working on it though.
I added RT’s path to the local environment variable and now it launches.
But it does return an error when the editor is closed:
“Error to import RAW image with RawTherapee.
Close this dialog to load RAW image with native import tool.”
I guess the mutual integration is not yet very mature.
Cant get a multi hundred thousand image library set up - digikam keeps crashing on a fresh copy of the latest Windows 10 release. It run’s for a bit, using sql-lite setup as others are experimental, and then the app just disappears without any warning or information after it gets so far… can’t keep track of exactly where - because the software doesn’t provide such feedback… it just says its creating the catalog. Sadly it never says where it is at in the process.
Here is one such crash - but this happened as rotating 3 files - coincidence? Dont know.
System
Provider
[ Name] Windows Error Reporting
EventID 1001
[ Qualifiers] 0
Level 4
Task 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000
TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2019-12-09T15:16:19.295397600Z
EventRecordID 6928
Channel Application
Computer xx
Security
EventData
1467832621908378008
4
APPCRASH
Not available
0
digikam.exe
0.0.0.0
5db9dcc2
libdigikamcore.dll
0.0.0.0
5db9d801
c0000005
0000000000133330
Hi. Not sure where I should post requests for additional features, but i’ll try here in case someone might know how to solve it.
i would like to add the “auto-correction”-tool to the main tool bar so that i do not have to open every photo in photo editor to use this feature. i tried to add it in Settings>Configure toolbars, but it is not possible from there.
Anyone know how to?
