[Digikam-devel] yet another blog about state of photography on linux

[Mikolaj Machowski]

Hello,

Maybe interesting read:

http://jcornuz.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/using-linux-for-photography-where-we-stand/

"Our" part is here -

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... what I need is:

- display quickly any file type (including RAW)
- thumbnails / image / metadata / folder browsing panes that can be moved 
around and hidden
- full exif and XMP tags management / search support
- slideshow / fullscreen
- create contact sheets (I know, this looks like a gadget, but it comes in 
very handy)
- right-click on an image to open it in the raw converter / image editor
- Color Managed

What I don't need is:

- Image edition (there are better tools for that)

What I don't want is:

- a program that copies / moves / saves my files by itself

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For me looks like the only thing which 0.10 won't have is contact-sheet
making. Not bad :)

I don't agreed with "Image edition" part - for advanced users maybe but
for beginners, middle advanced simple editing is necessary. Especially
when there is lack of 16-bit capable programs.

I'd like to underscore contact-sheet feature. This is necessary for
archiving and passing photos beyond photographer. This doesn't have to
be very sophisticated. You need to configure params:

- number of columns
- number of rows
- size in pixels (height, width)
- margin between images
- margin top, bottom, left, right
- caption with "entities" (eg. name, name-without-extension, size-in-kB,
  size-in-MB, maybe some exif ones)
- font
- background color

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146869

m.