digiKam 7.4.0 is released
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 development 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.The Folder-View is a standard navigation view over the local file system. It allow:
- To filter images by type-mimes,
- Render thumbnails with different sizes,
- Render file list with details,
- Show photograph metadata on tool-tips,
- Play over the navigation history,
- Save your prefered places in Bookmarks,
- Give access to the usual places from your computer,
- Load folder contents to the editor using Stack-View,
- Visualize quickly the images using Generic/View plugins.
The Stack-View is a flat list of grouped images. It allow:
- Load quickly items in editor,
- Manage list of files to host in editor thumb-bar,
- Allow to host stacked files from different folders,
- Render thumbnails with different sizes,
- Show photograph metadata on tool-tips,
- Save your prefered list of files in hierarchized Favorites tree-view,
- Edit and manage Favorites properties,
- Search over Favorites tree-view.
- Visualize quickly the stacked items using Generic/View plugins.
Remember that Showfoto does not use a database as digiKam. All settings and properties managed by the Folder-View and the Stack-View are stored in a simple XML config file. The new left sidebar will allow you to explore images stored on your disk and manage a small collection of your prefered items.
A new version of open source digital photo manager digiKam has been released.
