DIGIKAMPLUGINS

Authors :

- Renchi Raju    <renchi@pooh.tam.uiuc.edu>
- Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles@free.fr>
- Todd Shoemaker <todd@theshoemakers.net>
- Gregory Kokanosky <gregory.kokanosky@free.fr>

Resume :
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Digikam uses a plugin architecture for additional functionality.
Currently implemented plugins are:

 1) RawConverter       : A Raw Image Converter for digital cameras (by Renchi Raju).

 2) SlideShow          : Slideshow with effects ripped out from kslideshow (by Renchi Raju).

 3) MpegEncoder        : An images to MPEG flux encoder for build a video file with many images (by Gilles Caulier).

 4) ImagesGallery      : An Album to HTML gallery export (by Gilles Caulier and Gregory Kokanosky).

 5) GammaCorrection    : A screen gamma correction (by Gilles Caulier).
                         ==> Not usable in 0.6.0 (released in 0.6.1).

 6) PrintWizard        : A print wizard (by Todd Shoemaker).

 7) JpegLossLess       : Batch images processing without less meta informations (by Renchi Raju).

 8) CdArchiving        : Albums CD archiving via K3b cd burning program (by Gilles Caulier).

 9) AcquireImages      : Digikam acquire image plugin based on Kooka interface (by Gilles Caulier).

10) Calendar           : A Calendar construction plugin using Digikam Albums images (by Renchi Raju)
                         ==> Beta (released for 0.6.1).

11) SendImages         : An Email images plugin (by Gilles Caulier).

12) BatchProcessImages : A batch process images plugin (by Gilles Caulier).
                         This plugin include this parts:
                            RenameImages.
                            ConvertImages.
                            BorderImages.
                            FilterImages.
                            ColorImages.
                            EffectImages.
                         ==> Beta (released for 0.6.1).

13) MiscOperations     : Misc operations plugins (by Gregory Kokanosky).
                         This plugin include this parts:
                            Image2Desktop.
                            Album2FileManager.

14) FindImages         : Find dupplicate images/comments in albums library (by Gregory Kokanosky and Gilles Caulier).
                         This plugin include this parts:
                            FindComments.
                         ==> Under construction.
                            FindDupplicateImages.
                         ==> Beta (released for 0.6.1).

15) HelloWorld         : Tutorial plugin implementation (by Renchi Raju, Gilles Caulier, and Achim Bohnet).


Contact :
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If you have questions, comments, suggestions, requests, bug reports to
make do email at :

digikam-users@list.sourceforge.net

Depencies :
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AutoConf >= 2.5
AutoMake >= 1.7.0
KDE 3.x
gphoto2 2.x
imlib1 >= 1.90
libexif >= 0.5.7
ImageMagick >= 5.5.4
MJPEGTools >= 1.6.0
dcRAW >= 5.02


Installation :
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In the source directory do :

1) export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1
2) export KDEDIR=KDE_installation_dir_on_your_system
3) make -f Makefile.cvs
4) ./configure
5) make
6) su
7) make install


Notes :
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- More specifics compilation and installation options can be used with '.configure' script.
Checked this with './configure --help' command line.

- Some plugins can be disabled during the build process. Checked the end of 'configure.in.in' file
and decomments the plugins lines corresponding. Then start the installation procedure.

- You must build and install the 'digikam3' module before trying build this module.
