[Digikam-devel] Digikam KDE integration problem: Bigger icons and TextUnderIcon not supported by digikam?

Marcel Wiesweg marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de
Tue Aug 15 15:37:53 BST 2006


> I recently become a big fan of larger KDE icons and the TextUnderIcon
> feature from KDE (that will be the default in KDE4). This way KDE is way
> more userfriendly e.g. for my parents, that do not work with computers so
> frequently.
>
> All standard KDE apps and most extragear apps (like KDE) honor the icon
> size and icon/text position settings from the KDE Control Center which
> gives a nice and consistent desktop. However digikam seems to be the bad
> exception in this case - or is this just me?
>
> Has anybody here tried to use digikam with large icons (48px in Main
> Toolbar) and TextUnderIcon feature? Did it work for you? If yes, what do I
> have to do to get it working here, too? If not, how can we fix this? I am
> willing to help in case not  much C++ knowledge is needed ...

I can confirm the problem.
But I don't know how to fix it. We use KMainWindow, plug the actions and call 
createGUI to read the XML file. We need some more KDE API knowledge...

Marcel



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