[Digikam-devel] [Bug 98693] easy stitcher and panorama tool

[Olivier LAHAYE]

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------- Additional Comments From olivier.lahaye1 free fr  2007-11-28 16:39 -------
I'd realy like to have the panorama tool as a native plugin to digikam. I hate having to switch to multiple programs in order to achieve a single goal: manage my photos as to speak about digikam.

I don't like the idea to call hugins from digikam. why should we call an external program for panormama and not for simple edition. Why not call the gimp or krita for simple edition (if you extend the idea of calling an external program). To go forward with this idea, why no creating a specific profile for konqueror to browse photos with specific service menus that would call some gimp scrips or the like.

More over, if you start depending on external software, you're at the risk that:
1) a digikam equivalent includes the feature and becomes more attractive
2) the external program can become incompatible with digikam
3) the program can be abandoned or integrated in a digikam alternative

More over, having multiple GUI behaviour is realy a bad experience (ok/cancel button inverted, not the same dialog boxes, once the image is edited, do I save it and overwrite or is the program aware that I'm editing a picture and clicking save replaces the original without prompting. Many usability problems in perspective IMHO.

(of course, I admit that it's not an easy task and as I'm not a developper, thus I can't complain ;-) . Those words are only here in the hope it can highlight some trouble not creating a native panorama tool.)