DIGIKAM - MANAGE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS LIKE A PROFESSIONAL WITH THE POWER OF OPEN SOURCE

-- ABOUT -------------------------------------------------------------

 digiKam is an easy to use and powerful digital photo management
 application, which makes importing, organizing and manipulating
 digital photos a "snap".  An easy to use interface is provided
 to connect to your digital camera, preview the images and download
 and/or delete them.

 The digiKam built-in image editor makes the common photo correction
 a simple task. The image editor is extensible via plugins and, 
 since the digikamimageplugins project has been merged to digiKam core
 since release 0.9.2, all useful image editor plugins are available
 in the base installation.

 digiKam can also make use of the KIPI image handling plugins to
 extend its capabilities even further for photo manipulations,
 import and export, etc. The kipi-plugins package contains many
 very useful extensions.

 digiKam is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.


-- AUTHORS ------------------------------------------------------------

See AUTHORS file for details.


-- RELATED URLS -------------------------------------------------------

digiKam      : http://www.digikam.org
kipi-plugins : http://www.kipi-plugins.org

-- CONTACT ------------------------------------------------------------

If you have questions, comments, suggestions to make do email at :

digikam-users@kde.org

If you want contribute to digiKam developments do email at :

digikam-devel@kde.org

IRC channel from irc.freenode.org server: #digikam

-- BUG REPORTS --------------------------------------------------------

IMPORTANT : the bug reports and wishlist entries are hosted by the KDE bug report
system which can be reached from the standard KDE help menu of digiKam.
A mail will automatically be sent to the digiKam development mailing list.
There is no need to contact directly the digiKam mailing list for a bug report 
or a devel wish.

The current bugs and devel wishes reported to the bugzilla servers can be seen
at these urls :

* digiKam (KDE bugzilla):

http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=digikam&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

* Image Editor plugins (KDE bugzilla):

http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=digikamimageplugins&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

* Showfoto (KDE bugzilla):

http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=showfoto&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

* Kipi-plugins (KDE bugzilla):

http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=kipiplugins&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

Extra Bugzilla servers for shared libs used by digiKam :

* GPhoto2 library (sourceforge bugzilla):

http://gphoto.org/bugs

* Exiv2 library (robotbattle bugzilla):

http://dev.robotbattle.com/bugs/main_page.php


-- DEPENDENCIES -------------------------------------------------------

Name            Version                       URL                                        Remarks

CMake           >= 2.4.x (2.4.3 recommended)  http://www.cmake.org
libqt           >= 4.3.x (4.5.x recommended)  http://www.qtsoftware.com                  Including SQLite3 database plugin
kdelibs         >= 4.0.x (4.2.x recommended)  http://www.kde.org
libkipi         >= 0.2.0                      http://www.digikam.org/sharedlibs
libkexiv2       >= 0.5.0                      http://www.digikam.org/sharedlibs          Version from trunk KDE svn repository. Will be released with KDE 4.2. Exiv2 0.18.x shared library recommended.
libkdcraw       >= 0.4.0                      http://www.digikam.org/sharedlibs          Version from trunk KDE svn repository. Will be released with KDE 4.2.
liblcms         >= 1.14.x                     http://www.littlecms.com
libtiff         >= 3.8.2                      http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff
libpng          >= 1.2.x                      http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
libjpeg         >= 6b                         http://www.ijg.org
libjasper       >= 1.7.x                      http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper

Optional :

libkdepimlibs   >= 4.0.x (4.2.x recommended)  http://pim.kde.org                         To support KAddressBook entries.
libmarblewidget >= 0.5.1 (0.6.x recommended)  http://edu.kde.org/marble                  To support Geolocation using Marble Widget.
liblensfun      >= 0.1.0                      http://lensfun.berlios.de                  To support LensCorrection editor plugin.
libgphoto2      >= 2.4.0                      http://www.gphoto.org                      To support Gphoto2 Cameras. 

Note : all library dependencies require development and binary packages installed on your
computer to compile digiKam.

CMake compilation option de customized for digiKam:

Use CMake "-DENABLE_GPHOTO2=no"        flag to compile digiKam without libgphoto2 support (enabled by default).
Use CMake "-DENABLE_THEMEDESIGNER=yes" flag to compile digiKam theme designer (disabled by default).

Video thumbs support under Linux : please install "mplayerthumbs" package.

-- INSTALLATION --------------------------------------------------------

In order to compile, especially when QT3/Qt4 are installed at the same time, 
just use something like that:

# export VERBOSE=1
# export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt4
# export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH 
# cmake .
# make

Usual CMake options :

-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX : decide where the program will be install on your computer.
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE     : decide which type of build you want. You can chose between:
                         "debugfull".     : for hacking. Include all debug informations.
                         "debug".
                         "profile".
                         "relwithdebinfo" : default. use gcc -O2 -g options.
                         "release"        : generate stripped and optimized bin files. For packaging.

Compared to old KDE3 autoconf options:

"cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull" is equivalent to "./configure --enable-debug=full"
"cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr"  is equivalent to "./configure --prefix=/usr"

More details can be found at this url: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/CMake#Environment_Variables


-- DONATE MONEY --------------------------------------------------------

If you love digiKam, you can help developers to buy new photo devices to test 
and implement new features. Thanks in advance for your generous donations.

For more information, look at this url : http://www.digikam.org/?q=donation
