[Digikam-devel] Calendar View : patch to displaying all items from Year Date Album.

[Arnd Baecker]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Gilles Caulier wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Like you know, 0.9.4 will be a release dedicated to improve fix Date
> management everywhere in digiKam...
>
> After the new TimeLine tool, I have study a problem in Calendar view :
> nothing appear when you select Year Date album.
>
> A patch against current svn is available here :
>
> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/yearalbum.patch
>
> Patch is not too intrusive. It touch DAlbum class of course, Date KIO-Slave,
> AlbumManager to handle Year Date Album, and Date Folder View.
>
> There is a fresh screenshot of this patch in action :
>
> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/yeardatealbum.png

Looks great!

> Question :
>
> 1/ Since we have the new TimeLine tool, i think than "Dates" name in left
> sidebar tab must be changed to "Calendar". It's more understandable for
> end-users and prevent confusion with TimeLine. What do you think about ?

Yes. this sounds better.

> 2/ I cannot find the B.K.O file about the Year Date Album empty content
> problem. I remember a comment from an user about this subject in a
> non-relevant B.K.O entry, but i'm not sure...

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144337

Best, Arnd

P.S.: Haven't tested the patch yet, because I am just
reviewing Roberto's patch on the aspect ratio crop ...