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

[Achim Bohnet]

On Wednesday 27 July 2005 14:26, Carsten Niehaus wrote:
> Hi
[..snip..]

Thx for the describtion of your workflow.  Maybe this helps to improve
digikam 0.8 even further.

> 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.

Well, digikamimageplugins and kipi-plugins are different in design:

a kipi-plugin get as input a list of files: loads, manipulate them
and saves them.

digikamimageplugins work on images in memory for speed and you can
use several after each other.  The app has to take care when/how
to save the output.

So if anyone of the kipi enabled apps developers is interested in
digikamimageplugins, there tis he possibility to write a generic
'start app' kipi-plugins.  This can then, as a special case run
showfoto with a list
of files (optionaly adding watches to inform the app that showfoto
has save a modified file).  Then every kipi enabled app can use
digikamimageplugins.   Because digikam has (naturally) already a more
integrated interface to digikamimageplugins there no big motivation
(sort of english understatement) from digikam devel side to create
such a kipi-plugin.

Achim -- is no digikam developer so everyting above is maybe horrible
	wrong and a shameless guess
> 
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