Contacts:

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

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* RAWCONVERTER PLUGIN [Author: Renchi Raju]
  (Raw files converter)

 - add 16 bit image (ppm/tiff) support

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* SLIDESHOW PLUGIN [Author: Renchi Raju]
  (Slide show an Album)

 - Add preview Slideshow effects in dialogbox like Kcontrol screensavers settings.

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* MPEGENCODER PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
  (MPEG images encoder)

 - Add Drap & Drop capability.
 - Add DIVX support using mencoder program.
 - Using new C++ implementation with MJPEGTools and IMLIB from Renchi instead
   images2mpg bash script.
 - Use Digikam images preview API.
 - Add file name or image comment in MPEG flux.

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* IMAGEGALLERY PLUGIN [Authors: Gilles Caulier and Gregory Kokanosky]
  (Web page Albums creation)

 - Add XHTML capabilities.
 - Add anotation images for copyrights (like Photoshop).
 - HTML tags parsing in albums and items comments (request by Achim Bohnet).
 - Add images gallery targets : kmail, war, zip, tar.gz, tar.bz2 (request by
   Achim Bohnet).
 - Add multithreading images and thumbnails generation with ImageMagick API.
 - Add border images colors and sizes options.

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* GAMMACORRECTION PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
  (Gamma calibration for a best images rendering)

-> Status : beta => Released for 0.6.1

 - Add gamma correction preview with an image.

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* COMMENTSEDITOR PLUGIN [Author: Renchi Raju]
  (batch images comments editor)

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* PRINTWIZARD PLUGIN [Author: Todd Shoemaker]
  (Multiples images printing wizzard)

 - Check for existence of Gimp and disable option if not available.
 - Add Images Comments.

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* JPEGLOSSLESS PLUGIN [Author: Renchi Raju]
  (Batch operations images with JPEG loss less)

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* CDARCHIVING PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
  (Archive Albums to CD/DVD with K3b)

 - HTML interface : HTML tags parsing in albums and items comments (request by
   Achim Bohnet).
 - Add multithreading images and thumbnails generation with ImageMagick API.
 - Add XML cdarchiving info file in target media (for future CDRestoring plugin).

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* ACQUIREIMAGES PLUGIN GROUP

  ==> SCANIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
    (Scan images acquisitions)

  ==> SCREENSHOTIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
    (Screenshot images acquisitions)
     -> Status : beta => Released for 0.6.1

 - Support of TGA file format.

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* CALENDAR PLUGIN [Author: Renchi Raju]
  (Calendar creation wizzard)

-> Status : beta => To be released with 0.6.1

 - Add option for choosing resolution.
 - Fix corrupted pdf file when printing to pdf (fairly sure this is a kprinter bug).
 - Add more options for controlling the appearance.
 - Work on beautifying the calendar layout.

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* SENDIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
  (Email images)

 - Add multithreading images and thumbnails generation with ImageMagick API.
 - Add tarball, zip, bz2, gz generation.
 - Add images selection capability (drag and drop).
 - Add images informations in dialog (comments and album name).
 - Add support of 'Aethera' and 'Opera' mail agents.

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* BATCHPROCESSIMAGES PLUGINS GROUP

 ==> RENAMEIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
    (batch auto remaning image files)
     -> Status : beta => Released for 0.6.1

 ==> CONVERTIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
    (batch Convert images files format plugin using ImageMagick)
    -> Status : beta => Released for 0.6.1

 ==> BORDERIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
     (batch Images bordering plugin using ImageMagick)
     -> Status : beta => Released for 0.6.1

 ==> FILTERIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
    (batch filtering images plugin using ImageMagick)
    -> Status : beta => Released for 0.6.1

 ==> COLORSIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
     (batch images colors enhancement with ImageMagick)
     -> Status : beta => Released for 0.6.1

 ==> EFFECTSIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
    (batch images visual effects changing with ImageMagick)
     -> Status : beta => Released for 0.6.1

 ==> MOBILEEXPORT PLUGIN
     (pda graphic formats export)
     -> TODO (planned by Bastian <style@wtal.de>)

 ==> ANNOTATEIMAGES PLUGIN
     (batch images annotation with ImageMagick)
     -> TODO

 ==> RESIZEIMAGES PLUGIN
    (batch images Canvas/Size changing with ImageMagick)
     This part will replaced ResizeImages in JPEGLoosLess plugin.
     -> TODO

 ==> STEGIMAGES PLUGIN
     (Images Steganography plugin)
     -> TODO

 ==> METAINFO2COMMENTS PLUGIN
    (Exif/Comments meta-informations extraction to Digikam images comments plugin)
    -> TODO

 ==> IMAGEINTERPOLATOR PLUGIN
     (Interpolate bad pixels in images based on JpegPixi program)
     -> TODO

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* CDRESTORINGWIZZARD PLUGIN

-> TODO (planed by Gilles Caulier)

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* MISCSOPERATIONS PLUGINS GROUP

 ==> IMAGE2DESKTOP PLUGIN [Author: Gregory Kokanosky]
     (Put an image in desktop background based on ShowImg source code)

 ==> ALBUM2FILEMANAGER PLUGIN [Author: Gregory Kokanosky]
     (open an Album path in a file manager (konqueror and nautilus))


 ==> SCREENSHOOTCAPTURE PLUGIN
    (Screenshoots capture imported to an Album - based on KSnapshoot source code)
    -> TODO

 ==> EXTERNALRUNNING PLUGIN
    (allows to start programs with the current selection of images. This
     would allow to define in the plugins config the users prefered
     slideshow program, image editor, HTML Gallery generators etc.)
    -> TODO

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* FINDIMAGES PLUGIN GROUP

 ==> FINDCOMMENTS PLUGIN [Author: Gregory Kokanosky]
     (Find comments into Digikam library)
     -> Under construction

 ==> FINDDUPPLICATEIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
     (Find duplicates images into Digikam library using ShowImg code source)
     -> Status : beta => Released for 0.6.1

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* IMPORT2ALBUM PLUGIN
  (Wizard for import Images/Folders/PhotoCD/CD with images to an Album)

-> TODO



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Common plugins future tasks :

- Created a 'Common' folder regrouping all common fonctions for plugins (like Deletedir, ResizeImages, etc...)
- Export 'Exif viewer from main Digikam source code to Digikam plugin.
- Export 'File proprieties' from main Digikam source code to Digikam plugin.
- Export 'ImageViewer' from main Digikam source code to Digikam plugin.

