[Kde-imaging] libkipi release again

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

On Friday 08 October 2004 15:45, Gilles Caulier wrote:
| Le vendredi 8 Octobre 2004 15:42, Renchi Raju a écrit :
| > On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Gilles Caulier wrote:
| > > About my plugins :
| > >
| > > ==> CDArchiving -> Bugs to fix during beta.
| > > ==> ImagesGallery -> Bugs to fix during beta.
| >
| > so are we releasing a beta release of kipi-plugins first? i thought the
| > plan was to consolidate a list of stable plugins and make a stable
| > release soon.
|
| There are some small bugs (report by Jesper in Kimdaba). These can be fixed
| during the beta.
|
| > > Important:  'DirOperations', 'GammaCalibration', 'WallPaper' ==> Really
| > > need to have these plugins. These operations can be easily implemented
| > > in the hosts. I hope to remove these plugins. Your viewpoints ?
| >
| > i'm ok with these plugins being remove. 'diroperations' assumes
| > imagecollection is a directory, which makes it limited to some apps.
| > and the functionality of 'gammacalibration' and 'wallpaper' might be
| > redundant with existing functionality in kde.
|
| OK. I will waiting the others contributors before to remove...
|
| > > About the library, i have 2 points :
| > >
| > > ==> We can add a new virtual method in kipi interface when a new album
| > > is added to the host' image collections (like in AcquireImages or
| > > BatchProcessImages dialogs). This method will do nothing per default.
| > > In Digikam this method can be used for to call the Albums properties
| > > dialog for to set the Album collection, date, comments, etc.
| > >
| > > ==> Rename the 'AlbumsUseFirstImagePreview' to 'AlbumsUseImagePreview'
| > > since Digikam can set a specific preview image for an Album (not
| > > necessary the first image). We can add a new virtual method for to get
| > > the image preview url used by the host. This method will do nothing per
| > > default.
| >
| > i would like to have these deferred to a later release, if possible.
|
| Ok for the second point, but the first point is very easy to do and i think
| we can implement this feature now...

I'm not sure I understand your point here, when is a new album created from a 
plugin? Don't plugins create directories instead?

Cheers
Jesper