[Digikam-devel] Thinking about First Run Assistant

[Mikolaj Machowski]

On Monday 27 April 2009 09:11:55 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It's holidays time for me, for one week.
>
> I will study to implement a new Assistant to setup digiKam at the
> first time. The current dialog which appears in this case is just to
> setup Collection.
>
> It's not enough. We must ask to users if he is a pro-photographers or
> just beginner and setup the rest of digiKam accordingly. Example, a
> pro would to use RawImport tool and save digiKam metadata into images.

Self-description can be misleading very often. What is amateurish and what is 
pro? Also there is big gray area between. First Run Assistant is great idea 
but should not be such simplified. My suggestion:

1. First screen used to set up albums (Marcel's suggestion about multiple 
locations is good one); database should be stored in .kde4 by default and its 
location not changed here but in normal setup dialog.
2. On this first screen note: if you want to fine tune digikam setup please 
Click here. If not all settings are set for beginner user. To fine tune later 
use Settings->digiKam setup
3. On later screens could be walkthrough of more advanced options of digiKam 
or just full setup dialog.

m.