[Digikam-devel] [Bug 158533] Wish: Be able to see not only "image2 files but any that are there in an album

[Brendan]

On Thursday 16 October 2008, Rainer Krienke wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2008 schrieben Sie:
> > --- Comment #1 from Brendan Barry <mailinglist endosquid com>  2008-10-16
> > 04:54:59 --- I  went and downloaded BibbleLite and produced a .bib file.
> > "file" evaluates it to be:
> >
> > "ASCII text, with very long lines"
> >
> > So, an extension search would seem to be a good idea.
>
> Not sure if I misunderstand your proposal. But its not a search option I
> was asking for. When selecting to see all files in an album you need to see
> icons of those .bib files along with the photos in the same directory just
> like in a in a file manager. Of course I would not want to digikam to
> process these files in any way. Just make them visible.

I was mostly commenting how I (or someone more savvy) would implement your 
wishlist item, programmatically. I was saying that the way .bib files are 
detected would have to be by extension (.bib files) if none of the tools 
available could detect the difference between a file with lots of text in it 
with very long lines (how one of the utilities used to detect filetypes saw it 
as), instead of saying "Bib file" and having a utility that could say "Even 
though it's named image.foo, I know it's a Bibble file". Did I explain that 
well? 

I definitely understood your wishlist item, I just wanted to see if it was 
easy enough for a newbie like myself to handle, and if anyone on the dev team 
had an opinion before I took a crack at it.