On 01/02/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joern Ahrens</b> <<a href="mailto:joern.ahrens@kdemail.net">joern.ahrens@kdemail.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 09:26, Richard Groult wrote:<br>> Hi, (I'm the showimg developper),<br>> I've just read that kipi could disappeared and I think it's a bad idea.<br>> Even if there are no a lot of new plugins, kipi is a great project and
<br>> I think users like it.<br><br>Yes, I agree. Sharing plugins between several applications is a great idea.<br>But we should share the work as well, because we all seem to have the same<br>problem: a lack of time and enough work with our main projects.
<br><br>> I've help to write a plugin, but I can help to maintain/improved others.<br>> What kind of new plugins could we add? We should discuss on new features.<br><br>It is neither a problem of new plugins nor the lack of documentation. But
<br>there are a lot of reports in bko which have to be worked off.<br><br>... Jörn<br></blockquote></div>As a Digikam and KDE user and also as a developer, I take freedom of sharing some of my opinions.<br>
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1) Image Viewers like GwenView or showimg are not supposed to have
great functionality that some KIPI plugins can provide. I never expect
to export images to various places from an image viewer. As far as I
see its only replication of functionality. <br>
2) Due to limilations of other apps UI, Kipi-plugins can't get a good
UI. Though I mentioned this in earlier discussion, I would say again.
The Image selection dialog in the kipi-plugins itself show the
awkward-ness in using them. I would ideally like to have a advanced
image selection window which digikam functionality like searching with
tags etc might provide.<br>
Besides this kipi plugin always look to much detached from the main
digikam application window. A proper intergration with Digikam will
make them much more usable.<br>
3) Development wise, I felt handicapped at not being able to use
detailed information a Digikam image would store. For e.g in my
application I couldn't use tags stored with the image in Digikam. I was
of course suggested to update the kipi-lib support to make it work, but
again the code only becomes dirtier when one apps sends you some data
and other doesn't and soon.<br>
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Just my opinion<br>
Vardhman<br>-- <br>Blogs: <a href="http://vardhman.blogspot.com">http://vardhman.blogspot.com</a><br>