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

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Samedi 08 Avril 2006 05:10 PM, Mikolaj Machowski a écrit :
> Dnia sobota, 8 kwietnia 2006 12:27, Thorsten Schnebeck napisał:
> > Am Samstag 08 April 2006 11:12 schrieb Mikolaj Machowski:
> > > Dnia sobota, 8 kwietnia 2006 03:10, Thorsten Schnebeck napisał:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > These navigations icons are required with default KDE one-click
> > > scheme.
> >
> > ... that I prefer too and that is necessary for 66 year old person :-)
>
> And is not the best one for application like digiKam (IMO).
>
> > But I dont know for what the album history browser is useful or better
> > why these icons are the main toolbar and the inner album navi keys not.
>
> Main toolbar icons are for album navigation, panel icons are for photo
> navigation.
>
> > > If digiKam could works as Krusader they could (and should) be gone,
> > > when one click opens image in IE they have to stay.
> > >
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > Not everyone have HAL.
> >
> > But KDE 4 will have its own hardware abstraction layer service. A
> > wizzard could be based on such a service.
>
> So it could be changed for KDE4 (digiKam 1.0?) not earlier.
>
> There are two problems with HAL: it is Linux specific and KDE is system
> agnostic (at least in principles); it doesn't work very well yet - at
> least for me it works quite randomly (Mdv 2006.0).
>

I'm second M. about this point. HAL is not mature and not portable. Gphoto2 
work very well. And i think that we have other point to imporve before 1.0, 
like backup tool, DNG support, conversion an the fly in camera gui, improving 
Tags and metadata, etc.

Gilles