[Digikam-devel] 0.8 branch

[Andreas Mair]

Hi,

On Friday 24 June 2005 14:54, Renchi Raju wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Andreas Mair wrote:
> >>> 5. Why did you restricted access to digikam KIO-slaves? That was one
> >>> of the greatest features of digiKam! Easy access to photo collection
> >>> from any KDE app.
> >>
> >> as i have said time and again, the reason why these kioslaves were
> >> accessible from other apps was a side-effect and not intentional.
> >
> > What was the reason for restricting access?
> > I had been hoping that someday I can tell Slideshow.kss (or whatever
> > the Screensaver is named) to show me DigiKam images based on tags :(
>
> i hope you are aware of how kioslave's internals, otherwise the rest of
> this email is pure gibberish. to list files from a kioslave, you need to
> implement slavebase::listDir(). Since moving to the db based listing, the
> information sent to the frontend includes: the id of the image, id of the
> album, name, date, size and maybe dimensions. since this is customized to
> the needs of digikam, its possible to list files  fast without
> transport of extra information. instead of using slavebase::listdir(),
> slavebase::special() is used for doing the listing. now for the kioslave
> to work with a generic kde frontend one needs to completely implement
> slavebase::listdir() and send the info the frontend expects. And this
> part is not implemented for digikamtags, digikamsearch and digikamdates
> kioslave. now, the only reason to implement it would be to make it work
> with other kde frontends and it doesn't give any additional benefit to
> digikam at all.

OK. And what about including a screensaver in digiKam that shows pictures 
based on tags?

Regards,
Andreas