[Digikam-devel] new KIPI plugin (image viewer)

[Colin Guthrie]

Markus Leuthold wrote:
> While digikam is a great program for managing your photo library, it doesn't 
> exactly fit my need for presenting images in fullscreen-mode. My plugin, 
> downloadable here (http://titlis.org/kipi_imageviewer.tar.gz), does:

You should also post this in the kde-imaging mailing list (the home of
Kipi Plugins). I've cross posted your mail there but due to my inability
to think straight I sent the mail without adding this preamble and
forgot to CC the original (this) list.... I'm an idiot... ;)


Excellent - look forward to trying it!

> The plugin does not yet
> - respect image rotations in the EXIF header
> - slideshow
> - icons, dialogs, etc...
> 
> I'll fix those issues soon. I'm aware of the fact that as soon as the 
> slideshow is implemented, it's quite a code duplication of the existing 
> slideshow KIPI code. I tried to reuse this code, but I finally changed the 
> datastructure which fits my needs better. But I'll reuse the transition 
> effects of the slideshow plugin.

If you do and you have time, could you take a look at:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102021

I've been wanting that for ages :)

> since I load the raw image into texture ram, you need quite alot of video mem. 
> E.g a 5mp image takes 20mb in the texture ram. So don't try to run this 
> plugin with less than 32mb video ram.

Is this going to conflict in anyway with Compiz/Beryl or similar?

Col