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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=941165513-27042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Hello, </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=941165513-27042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I think that a kind of api available to scripts writers (
perl/python,...) would be a very usefull addition to digikam</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=941165513-27042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>- api to add images/tags, rating,;</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=941165513-27042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>- api to query references to images according to
tags,....</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=941165513-27042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>- all of that outside of actual c++ digikam code but
released part of digikam</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=941165513-27042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>- That would open up a lot of possibilities (
web galerie generation, import/export from other
DAM,.....)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=941165513-27042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>- That also would prevent "wild access" to the digikam
database </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=941165513-27042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Just my 0.02€</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=941165513-27042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Etienne</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Gilles Caulier
[mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> jeudi 26 avril 2007
20:53<BR><B>To:</B> digiKam - Digital Photo Management for the
masses<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Digikam-users] F-Spot -->
Digikam<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Totally agree with Fabien. A generic script can be done to backport DB from
others photo management program to digiKam DB.</DIV>
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<DIV>There is not only F-Spot and digiKam witch use SQlite database. Look like
Apple Aperture use it ! </DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://www.majid.info/mylos/stories/2005/12/01/apertureInternals.html">http://www.majid.info/mylos/stories/2005/12/01/apertureInternals.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>... and Adobe LightRoom too !</DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-29/221">http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-29/221</A></DIV>
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<DIV>I don't know if Picasa use Sqlite database...<BR> </DIV>
<DIV>Gilles<BR> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>2007/4/26, Fabien <<A
href="mailto:fabien.ubuntu@gmail.com">fabien.ubuntu@gmail.com</A>>:</SPAN>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi,<BR><BR>Gilles
Caulier wrote:<BR>><BR>> Fabien, if users have a script to move from
f-spot to digiKam, i will be <BR>> happy to see it on digiKam FAQ web
project page.<BR><BR>Me too :)<BR><BR>What could be great is to have something
more generic :<BR>any to digikam<BR>with some standard input to add
tags/comments/rates, etc.<BR>(eg a csv file), so that it could be easier to
implement a <BR>newapp2digikam utility.<BR><BR>But, maybe something could be
done with dcop
?<BR><BR>--<BR>Fabien<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Digikam-users
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