Authors:

Renchi Raju       <renchi at pooh.tam.uiuc.edu>
Gilles Caulier    <caulier dot gilles at free.fr>
Gregory Kokanosky <gregory dot kokanosky at free.fr>
Todd Shoemaker    <todd at theshoemakers.net>
Richard Groult    <Richard dot Groult at jalix.org>

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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)

 - Show comments in slideshow (configurable)
 - auto-hide Toolbar for manual control (fwd,back,pause,exit)
 - Add preview Slideshow effects in dialogbox like Kcontrol
   screensavers settings.

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

 - Add DIVX support using mencoder program.
 - Using new C++ implementation with MJPEGTools and IMLIB from Renchi instead
   images2mpg bash script.
 - 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 annotation images for copyrights (like Photoshop).
 - Add images gallery targets : kmail, war, zip, tar.gz, tar.bz2 (request by
   Achim Bohnet).
 - Add multithreading images and thumbnails generation .

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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)

 - Add multithreading images and thumbnails generation.
 - 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)

 - Support of TGA file format.

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

 - 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]
  (E-mail images)

 - Add multithreading images and thumbnails generation.
 - Add tarball, zip, bz2, gz generation.
 - 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)

 ==> CONVERTIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
     (batch Convert images files format plugin using ImageMagick)

 ==> BORDERIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
     (batch Images bordering plugin using ImageMagick)

 ==> FILTERIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
     (batch filtering images plugin using ImageMagick)

 ==> COLORSIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
     (batch images colors enhancement with ImageMagick)

 ==> EFFECTSIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
     (batch images visual effects changing with ImageMagick)

 ==> RECOMPRESSIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
     (batch auto recompressing image files)

 ==> RESIZEIMAGES PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
     (batch images size changing with ImageMagick)

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

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

 ==> 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))

 ==> KGAMMACALL PLUGIN [Author: Gilles Caulier]
     (KDE Gamma correction call)

 ==> 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)
     -> TODO

 ==> FINDDUPPLICATEIMAGES PLUGIN [Authors: Gilles Caulier and Richard Grould]
     (Find duplicates images into Digikam library using ShowImg code source)

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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.


