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

[Gilles Caulier]

Arnd,

All reports from Thomas sound fixed since october. The post date is august.
During summer, we have works very well to port code. Now implementation is
more stable as well...

Gilles

2007/11/27, Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de>:
>
> 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?
> >
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