[Digikam-devel] Image Properties SideBar progress (3) + New experimental ShowFoto layout...

[Gilles Caulier]

Le Jeudi 01 Septembre 2005 03:59 PM, Renchi Raju a écrit :
> Tom Albers wrote:
> > Op woensdag 31 augustus 2005 07:43, schreef Renchi Raju:
> >>I have to admit, I am a bit confused as to where we are going with
> >>showfoto module. With the directory browser, its becoming an application
> >>which is trying to be on the same level as other image browsers like
> >>gwenview or showimg. At this point, I am not really sure where it fits
> >>in with the vision of digikam as an image management software. Would it
> >>be better to forking it off into a separate project?
> >
> > I think those applications already exists and that we should not go
> > there. Having a lite weight show-a-foto app would be best imho, but I
> > expressed my o earlier.
>
> My concern is that we are currently spread out too thin, with a lot of
> projects under our umbrella: libkexif, libkipi, kipi-plugins, digikam,
> showfoto and digikamimageplugins. Maintenance of that many projects is
> already a nightmare. The original plan for showfoto was to keep it
> simple and compact and reuse most of the components from digikam. But if
> it starts taking a life of its own as an image browser, it might be best
> to take it out of the digikam module and put it in as a separate
> project. Our primary focus is to make sure that the digikam module which
> we ship is stable and complete and we have to ensure that everything
> which is included with it meet the standards that we aim for.

The current implementation is just an experimental idea. I had done that to 
have just a feedback.

Like this implementation giving a bad sound (:=))), i will remove directory 
browser tab implementation from showfoto on my computer...

Gilles