[Digikam-devel] Reg Kipi-interface in Digikam

[Colin Guthrie]

Vardhman Jain wrote:
> Sure, not a problem, new developers are like always encouraged and 
> welcome... ;) (I was too :))

:)

> I understand the problem, In fact I had similar things to be added to my 
> plugin too. I was thinking about a functionality to save some history 
> for the images I upload. I mean like adding some extra log thing. The 
> issue is kinda more complex then you might think of it.
> 
> Digikam is just one of the apps that uses the Gallery plugin. To have ur 
> plugin perform consistently probably the data shud be stored in some 
> other place. I look forward for suggestions from other kde-imaging 
> devels on this one. I guess we should move on the discussion to that 
> list, I am doing a CC anyways.

Well, I've only just read the docs and not really fully absorbed it yet, 
but I'm guessing that the attributes() and addAttribute() methods of the 
KIPI::ImageInfo object allow the plugin to store arbitrary key/value 
pairs about an image (provided the host application supports this - 
hasFeature() call needed first I think). So presumably if Digikam 
supports this then I can store a "do not sync this image" flag to any 
given image.

Now, KIPI::ImageCollection (e.g. Album (sometimes), does not support 
this attributes system, so I would propose to add this to libkipi (and 
digikam) such that I can store a "sync this album to this remote gallery 
in this album" attributes.

Then I would need a way to go through all albums. Oh that's already 
there allAlbums().

In the future it would be nice to be able to traverse all the albums 
heirarchically, but htis is not needed in the first instance.

> Hopefully, we will have some solutions/suggestions from the kipi 
> developers...

I've been speaking via personal email with Angelo Naselli from KDE 
Imaging over the last couple of days and he is keen to get people 
involved with KIPI.

He said: "I started checking on bko (bugzilla) trying to save 
kipi-plugins project. Now something somewhow is moving and people are 
working again on this imo great project, and I'm "coordinating" the 
project concerning release scheduling and something more"

So I think he would be open to extending libkipi should the need arise.

I'll ask him on the kde-imaging mailing list if this is OK to do.

Please let me know if you think I've got the wrong end of the stick... ;)

Col.
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