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

[Angelo Naselli]

Alle 01:04, mercoledì 3 gennaio 2007, Markus Leuthold ha scritto:
> Hello all
> 
> 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:
> 
> - zooming (the zoom center is your mouse pointer and not just the center
>   of the screen)
> - rotation (as described in bug #120501)
> - support for OpenGL ARB_texture_rectangle extension
> - faster than digikams fullscreen mode
> - image preloading
> - correct display for 1680x1050 LCD's (not the case with digikam 0.9.0)
> - mousewheel support for either zooming or changing images
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> In parallel, I develop a standalone version with the same codebase that will 
> be similar to Kuickshow, which is still the fastest viewer I know of. It will 
> be much more lightweight than Gwenview.
> 
> Kusi
Just a thought, why don't you get in touch with kipi team, and try to get the slidshow
plugin maintainment?

Angelo


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