[Digikam-devel] Why I like Kimbada better than Digikam

[Gilles Caulier]

Le Mercredi 27 Juillet 2005 02:26 PM, Carsten Niehaus a écrit :
> Hi
>
> First of all: Digikam is great. But for my very specific use of a
> photo-application kimbada is better. I only know Digikam 0.7.1 (and older
> releases) and did not test 0.8-beta-versions.
>
> I will describe my workflow to make it clear why I like kimbada better:
>
> As a teacher of biology and as a nature-freak I like to go out and take
> pics of plants and insects (birds are just to fast ;-). Ok, back home I put
> the pictures into a temporary directory and start kimbada. I go through all
> pics and sort them: a press on "d" adds the token "d" to the picture, the
> "i" stands for improve.
> Now I go to the "d"-tokenized pictures and delete them all. As insects tend
> to move and plants move in the wind I make quite a lot pics to be sure at
> least one is really good. So I remove about half of my pictures.
> Then I go to the "i"-tokenized pictures and improve them. Either with a
> kipi-plugin or in the GIMP. Here is where I would *really* like to have a
> whitebalance improvement-pluging.

DigikamImagePlugins includes it since 0.7.3 release !!! 

http://extragear.kde.org/apps/digikamimageplugins/whitebalance.png

More informations about digiKam image editor and Showfoto plugins are here :

http://extragear.kde.org/apps/digikamimageplugins

>
> Ok, now I have only "good" pictures left, but still completly unsorted. The
> result of my work is that I need to be able to, for example, search
> Caryophylacea-plants (carnation-plants). Or all "real plants" (viri
> plantae) or all plants with semen (Spermatophytae). Therefore I am using
> quite a lot categories. For example, if I shoot a carnation I will give it
> the categorie Caryophylacea. That cat is again in the cat Spermatophytae
> which is in viri-plantae which is in plant. I am doing the same for
> animals.
>
> In the end I have the possiblity to look at all mamels, all ferns and so on
> with only one click. Furthermore, I add categories for places and for
> persons. This is far more advanced as everything what is possible in
> Digicam. But of course, that is exactly what Kimbada is made for :)
>
> I hope you can use this mail to get some inspiration or even to teach me
> wrong (eg. that all this is now also possible in Digikam 0.8).
>

digiKam 0.8.0 will be very improved. Advanced Searching, Sorting, and Tagging 
tools have been added. After to test 0.8.0 from SVN, you will can say that 
"digiKam suck Kimdaba" (:=))))...

I have started a screenshots collection about 0.8.0 here :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Digikam_0.8.0_preview/

-- 
Gilles Caulier