[Digikam-devel] extragear/graphics/doc/digikam

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at free.fr
Sun Sep 10 20:12:41 BST 2006


SVN commit 582847 by cgilles:

digikam from trunk : digiKam 0.9.0 handbook : first update of camera interface section. Not yet done. Work in progress.

CCMAIL: digikam-devel at kde.org

 M             cameraclient.png  
 M             cameraclientadvanced.png  
 M             cameraclientdownload.png  
 M             cameraclientitemproperties.png  
 M             cameratargetalbumdialog.png  
 M  +10 -6     index.docbook  


--- trunk/extragear/graphics/doc/digikam/index.docbook #582846:582847
@@ -1556,7 +1556,7 @@
             </para>
 
             <para>
-            The Camera Interface is not the only way to get your photographs into &digikam;. See the <link linkend="using-kapp-addphototoalbum">Adding a photograph to an Album</link> section for a description of how to add photographs that are already on your hard disk.
+            The Camera Interface is not the only way to get your photographs into &digikam;. See the <link linkend="using-kapp-addphototoalbum">Adding a photograph to an Album</link> section for a description of how to add photographs that are already on your hard disk. But Camera Interface provides a lots of advanced settings to import pictures into your albums database.
             </para>
             
             <para>
@@ -1564,7 +1564,7 @@
             </para>
         
             <para>
-            When you start the Camera Interface, it will try to connect to the Camera. For some cameras this connection phase can take a little while. When connected, a <guilabel>Ready</guilabel> indicator will appear and thumbnails of any photographs on the camera will be displayed. Some cameras cannot provide thumbnails of the photographs, if this is the case you will only see the filenames and an icon for each photograph.
+            When you start the Camera Interface, it will try to connect to the Camera. For some cameras this connection phase can take a little while. When connected, a <guilabel>Ready</guilabel> indicator will appear and thumbnails of any photographs on the camera will be displayed. Some cameras cannot provide thumbnails of the photographs, if this is the case you will only see the filenames and an mime-type icon for each items stored by your camera (photograph, movies, sound, etc).
             </para>
             
             <figure>
@@ -1579,18 +1579,22 @@
 
             <para>
             Before to download photographs on your computer, you can need to see camera item informations. Using the 
-            <menuchoice><guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from Camera Interface popup menu will launch camera item properties dialog.
+            <menuchoice><guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem></menuchoice> and <menuchoice><guimenuitem>Metadata</guimenuitem></menuchoice> side bar tabs from Camera Interface  will launch camera item properties and metadata informations.
             </para>
 
             <figure>
-                <title>The Camera Item Properties Dialog</title>
-                <graphic srccredit="The Camera Item Properties Dialog" fileref="cameraclientitemproperties.png"/>
+                <title>The Camera Item Properties Side Bar Tab</title>
+                <graphic srccredit="The Camera Item Properties Side Bar Tab" fileref="cameraclientitemproperties.png"/>
             </figure>
 
             <para>
-            This dialog displays file properties informations used internally by the camera to store item. A flag indicates if the picture has not been downloaded yet to you computer. Note, all these information can be unavailable with some digital cameras.
+            The Properties tab displays file properties informations used internally by the camera to store item and a resume of photograph informations to describe how to have taken the pcitures with camera. A flag indicates if the picture has not been downloaded yet to you computer. Note, all these informations can be unavailable with some digital cameras.
             </para>            
             
+            <para>
+            The Metadata tab displays internal pictures metadata like Exif, Makernotes, GPS, etc. This informations are the same than Metadata side bar tab from &digikam; main interface or image editor. Note, all these metadata can be unavailable with some digital cameras.
+            </para>            
+
         </sect2>
         
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