[Digikam-devel] Just fun (:=)))

[Thorsten Schnebeck]

Am Freitag 07 April 2006 22:57 schrieb Caulier Gilles:
> Hi all,
>
> Take a look into this blog link :
>
> http://liquidat.blogspot.com/2006/04/digikam-09-beta-1.html
>
> I love it (:=)))
Hi,

I switched last weekend to pre0.9 and I also really love what I see as I was 
one of the advocators that digikam should enter professional feature level.
The step in 0.9 is again really, really remarkable! The whole developer team 
can be proud of this program: 16Bit-IE, CMS, IPTC, RAW is for sure pro-level.

Ok, some stuff that starts now will not be ready for 0.9 like limitations in 
the Metatag handling but the new base looks far better than the old libexif 
one.

But I have also to keep an eye if digikam stays Mom-suitable! In this way I 
think that two sidetabs and two splitter is too much in a standard 
album-view. It would be good if some tabs and sidebar can be switched off, as 
my Mom dont need it. Especially the navi-arrows in the right view in album 
mode is "jumpy" between the differend sidebar-tabs and collidate with the two 
navi-icons in the main icon bar.

I also think, the current camera-setup is not good. Better can be a wizard 
based on HAL: "Digikam found a new camera-type device. Do you want to use it? 
[configure] [cancel]" Especially the new media-browse in the camera menu 
looks wrong. Better use the one, two mass-storage devices of the user in the 
main camera list and no all partitions, nfs-shares, CD-ROM and burners in a 
sub-menu. (Ok, you can use this sub-menu as a nice import function using 
mount --bind ;-) )

Another UI bug is IMHO that it is not possible/wanted in album view to create 
collecting selections when clicking consecutive in the outer photo frames but 
still have to use CTRL+click. A toggle type selection is right. It would be 
nice if such a UI change is tested during a beta and then ask the people if 
they like it or not.

My personal long range feature wishlist is 
- better metatag r/w support
- IE scripting and batch processing (to drop imitated imagemagick 
kipi-modules)
- 8-bit selection layer for free-form selections
- 8-bit alpha layer for free-form pictures    

I will write a larger test of 0.9 for ebv4linux.de based on a later beta and I 
hope that we can finish this time a developer interview. Last try failed when 
Renchi leaved the devel team.

P.S.
What about a poll on digikams website how many users use or want to use the 
new pro-functions and how many stay with their 8bit JPGs 


P.P.S.
remember the beginnings...?
http://web.archive.org/web/20021003170633/http://digikam.sourceforge.net/index.html

Have fun

  Thorsten