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0001 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> 0002 <html> 0003 <head> 0004 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> 0005 <title>digiKam for macOS Release Note</title> 0006 </head> 0007 <body lang="en-US" dir="ltr"> 0008 <pre class="western"> 0009 0010 <img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8666/27876582973_1f149739b9_o.png" width="96" height="96" alt="digiKam"> 0011 <h1>Thank you for installing digiKam!</h1> 0012 0013 We would like to inform you that the Windows version of digiKam works quite well even though some features are still missing. 0014 0015 This installer includes the stand-alone version of digiKam Image Editor named Showfoto. 0016 0017 This installer have be compiled under macOS using <a href="https://www.macports.org/">Macports project</a>. 0018 0019 <h1>License</h1> 0020 0021 digiKam is an open-source project published under the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0">General Public Licence</a> version 2 or later. 0022 0023 <h1>Internationalization</h1> 0024 0025 This installer includes lots of application translations. To change the current language, go to the Help menu and use the Switch Application Language option. digiKam needs to be restarted for the change to take effect. 0026 0027 <h1>Documentation</h1> 0028 0029 To limit size of this bundle, the detailed digiKam documentation is not included in the program. The complete handbook is available online 0030 <a href="https://docs.digikam.org/en/index.html">as HTML</a> or 0031 <a href="https://docs.digikam.org/en/epub/DigikamManual.epub">as EPUB</a>. 0032 0033 <h1>Requirements and Limitations</h1> 0034 0035 The internal database server requires installation of a local database backend for Windows, <a href="https://www.mysql.com/downloads/">Mysql</a> or <a href="https://downloads.mariadb.org/">MariaDB</a>. 0036 0037 Camera auto-detection does not work yet under macOS due to limitations in <a href="https://solid.kde.org">Solid hardware interface</a> used by digiKam. 0038 0039 Panorama and ExpoBlending tools require installing <a href="https://hugin.sourceforge.io/">Hugin runtime components</a> to process files. 0040 0041 <h1>Contribute and Help</h1> 0042 0043 To report a bug or a wishlist item, please follow the instructions at <a href="https://www.digikam.org/support">digiKam project web site</a>. 0044 0045 For all current open bug reports for the Windows release, please check the relevant <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=144974&op_sys=MS%20Windows&query_format=advanced&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=digikam">Bugzilla entries</a>. 0046 0047 <b>NOTE:</b> When you discover an issue or bug, please get a backtrace of the debug statements generated by digiKam while running. Unlike under Linux, this information is printed on a system console only visible with a dedicated application named DebugView. 0048 You can download this tool <a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/debugview.aspx">at this url</a>. 0049 0050 Thanks in advance <a href="https://www.digikam.org/donation">for your support</a>. 0051 0052 The digiKam team 0053 0054 </pre> 0055 </body> 0056 </html>