[Digikam-devel] Using root Album like a Welcome Page ...

[Gilles Caulier]

On Friday 24 November 2006 23:28, Caulier Gilles(UNTRUSTED, sender is 
<digikam-devel-bounces-+caulier.gilles=kdemail.net at kde.org>) wrote:
> Le Vendredi 24 Novembre 2006 23:16, Marcel Wiesweg a écrit :
> > > There is a screenshot with this page in action at this url :
> > >
> > > http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/digikam0.9.0-welcomepage.png
> >
> > Looks nice.
> >
> > > Paco, Marcel, Achim :
> > >
> > > The implementation is very simple and isn't intrusive with digiKam
> > > core. All page content is implemented like an HTML+CSS+PNG file in
> > > digikam/data/about folder on svn. Only a simple wrapper is added on
> > > digikamview.cpp to check if user select root folder, and all the rest
> > > is implemented into
> > > albumwidgetstack.cpp to show the page.
> > >
> > > The page content is very simple to update. All strings are in a new
> > > method on albumwidgetstack.cpp file.
> > >
> > > Note : to use this patch, please checkout svn before to get
> > > digikam/about/data content.
> > >
> > > The only little problem with this implementation are i18n. If i commit
> > > the source code now, new strings will be added to .po files...
> > >
> > > What do you think about ?
> >
> > I dont know about i18n rules.
> > Apart from that, it looks good, so commit if you think it's right ;-)
>
> Well, normally, we have frozen i18n now. We must trying to unchange strings
> in implementation until final release.
>
> But i think than to have this Welcome Page give a more user friendly
> application. It's look like other main KDE project (here i compare to
> Kmail)
>
> Following Achim tip, I will contact kde-i18n-doc to see if this change can
> be done now without cause any problems with translator jobs.

kde-i18n-doc team said than It's too late to post a lot of changes before 
final release. I will commit this patch later than 0.9.0-final.

Gilles