[Digikam-devel] KDE4 compile problems, Arrangement of Icons in main view

[Arnd Baecker]

Hi Thomas,

before I look into your old e-mail again: could it be that
this never recieved any response (google does not reveal any replies ...)?
If so, then a big sorry! If you are still interested
in this issue, I will add a couple of remarks in the next round.

Thanks a lot, Arnd

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Thomas Thrainer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried built recently KDE4 in order to try digikam's KDE4 port, but I
> encountered a couple of difficulties. Mainly, the "CMakeLists.txt" file in
> extragear/graphics checks for a couple of packages (like gphoto2), but
> doesn't warn if if fails to find it. Because there are warnings for other
> packages (like kexiv2 or kdcraw), it took me some time to figure out why
> cmake refused to build digikam.
>
> Once I have resolved this issue, I am really impressed by the new digikam,
> it's really awesome.
>
> But there is a small issue I'm always coming accross since I use digikam:
> I have quite a small screen, and digikam leaves a lot of space bedween
> thumbnails and their borders, and bedween two such icons.
> So I have set up a patch, which gets these two values out of the configuration
> file (and sets them initially to the old values).
> So far I have not included controlls in the configuration dialog, as I wanted
> to hear other opinions about making these values changeable. I'm completely
> new to writing patches for digikam (up to now I just used it), so please be
> patient with me ;-).
>
> One issue I came accross while tightening the border around a thumbnail was,
> that it's now quite hard to just select an image, without accidently clicking
> on it (which shows a preview of the image in my setup). So I added a third
> option for the click-action, which is just "do nothing" on click.
>
> Another point was, that the information below the images no more fits nicely
> in the small boxes. So an additional thing was, that I changed the
> text "created" or "modified" next to their dates, so that they only get
> displayed, if the other one is displayed as well. My motivation was, that
> when a user only wants to see the creation date, he don't wants to see the
> text "created" below every image. In contrast, if he wants to see the
> creation and modification date, the strings are prepended.
>
>
> What do you think about these changes? If you like my idea, I could add two
> sliders in the configuration dialog to make the distances configurable by the
> user.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
>
> PS.: The original reason why I looked at the digikam sources was, that I
> missed a feature I like very much: a Timeline. Is there any work in progress?
> If not, could you point me to some resources where I could look at in order
> to implement a timeline? Is there maybe already a concept how a timeline in
> digikam should look like?
>