[Digikam-devel] digiKam in dot.kde.org

[Marcel Wiesweg]

A few additions of mine to this paragraph:

> 1.
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> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/newsearchwindow.png
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> New Search tool make by Marcel. It's not yet complete, we want to
> finalize this interface for beta1. Like you can see, big work have been
> done to make a clean interface without any database-sql requests. It's
> more user friendly. Note that Database schema have been re-written and
> improved to include much more photo metadata informations. For example,
> GPS info are now stored in DB which means all read-only files can be
> geo-localized.
>

The new search tool written by Marcel.
As you can see, a lot of work has been done to design a clean interface, away 
from the traditional dialog requiring to build a search step-by-step with 
comboboxes, towards a page which offers the available options at a glance, at 
the same time retaining the ability to create complex searches. With this 
approach we hope to create something more user friendly. 
It's not finished yet, the UI in the screenshot can be considered a preview, 
but we want to finalize this interface for beta1.
The need to redesign the search interface came with the rewrite and 
improvement of our database schema. Now much more photo metadata information 
will be stored and will be available for searching. For example,
GPS information will now be stored in the database, which means that read-only 
files (think of your RAW images) can as well be geo-localized.