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

[Gilles Caulier]

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Gilles Caulier

2008/10/16 Brendan <mailinglist at endosquid.com>

> 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.
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