Dear digiKam fans and users,
After five months of maintenance, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.4.0 of its open source digital photo manager. This new version arrives after 20 years of developement since the first public 0.1.0, released at Christmas 2001.
Here is the list of most important features coming with this release:
Showfoto Folder-View and Stack-View Showfoto, the stand alone version of digiKam image editor, comes with a new left sidebar including two tabs to navigate in your local file system and to manage your prefered stack of images to load in application.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/news/2021-12-17-7.4.0_release_announcement/
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Hello thank you for this new release !
I have a problem though (I use the Windows version) : when I select a dark theme, the icons are barely visible, as they remain dark, how can I fix this ?
Didnāt the face recognition also improve in this release?
I havenāt installed version 7.4 yet but earlier versions would sort the icons out when you restarted the program after selecting a theme.
If this doesnāt work, then go to Settings > Configure Digikam > Miscellaneous > Appearance > Change Icon theme to Breeze Dark.
Hope this works for youā¦
After restarting digikam, icons have not changed. But thanks to you I could manually change the icons. But the ācases Ć cocherā (in french, sory i donāt know the english for this) remain black.
The face recognition improvements project done while this summer by a student is not yet integrated in master, as code need to be finalized.
The other project to port code to Qt6 framework is mostly completed. All will be merged step by step in master.
āCase Ć cocherā ==> CheckBox
Check the widget style settings from configuration/miscs dialog page.
Thank you, I chose the āWindowsā widget style and got white checkboxes. But itās not intuitive i must say, i should be done automatically when changing themesā¦
Normally, this must be the case. See comment on this entry:
After installing version 7.4.0 (win10), the āpersonā labels were gone. I had to roll back to version 7.3.0 to get them back. Weird
The person label ? Do you mean the left sidebar tab, or the faces tree-view (aka empty) ?
faces tree-view empty. I will check and clean the labels with 7.3 before trying again 7.4. It looks like recognition.db is not read and taken into account.
Wanted to let you know that autoupdate on mac os from 7.3 to 7.4 is not working, because the updater is looking for digikam-7.4.0-MacOS-x86-64.pkg.sha256 and there is no such file on download.kde.org. Instead there is digikam-7.4.0-MacOS-x86-64.pkg.sig.
File exists. Itās a virtual file generated by web server:
https://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/7.4.0/digiKam-7.4.0-MacOS-x86-64.pkg.sha256
In fact the typo is in the file name : ādigikamā ā ādigiKamā (note the uppercase āKā)
This have been fixed in 7.4.0 and will work while 7.4.0 to 7.5.0 upgrade. See this reports for details: 447087 ā Download new version not working
Hello
Thanks for this new version.
For the first time, I launched Showfoto to explore.
This downloaded a module.
But the first time you launch Digikam this also loads a module.
Then this module is loaded two times and there are two occurrences of the same module in the disk. Right ?
Yes. Files are stored in separated hidden application data directory from your home folder. Showfoto only download few small model files compared to digiKam, as itās only used for red eyes detection. digiKam store large models used for face detection and recognition. The gain to factoring storage will be limited.
Hi, love digikam, been using and contributing $ for several years now. Iām on Windows 11 and just upgraded to 7.4.0 and get the following error message when clicking on the map tool:
In case the image didnāt come through, the error reads:
āNo plugins were loaded, please check if the plugins were installed in one of the following paths:
System Path: C:/Program Files/digikam
Local Path: C:/Users/my name/AppData/Local/.marble/plugins
Also check if the plugin is compiled against the right version of Marble. Analyzing the debug messages inside a debugger might give more insight.ā
On my computer the Local Path terminates at /.marble, with no plugins folder. Iām not sure what file(s) to be looking for, but nothing with āmarbleā in the name appears in the System Path.
I reverted to 7.3.0 and the marble map within Digikam works perfectly, no errors. I reinstalled 7.4.0 a few times with the same error, reverting back to 7.3.0 each time, which successfully restored marble functionality. Iām not familiar with debugging, so donāt know how to get debug messages, but would be happy to try if you can walk me through it. Thanks!
There is already a pre-release digiKam-7.5.0 where the marble plugin problem is fixed.
https://files.kde.org/digikam/
The pre-release version carries out a database update for MySQL. Alternatively, with the already installed digiKam-7.4.0 version, you could copy/move the plugins from C:\Program Files\digiKam\plugins\*.dll to C:\Program Files\digiKam\.
Awesome, thanks! Merry Christmas.
thanks! Merry Christmas