[Digikam-devel] Thinking about First Run Assistant

[Andi Clemens]

On Monday 27 April 2009 19:13:13 Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> 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:
>

I agree with most of Mik's points.

> 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.

I can only speak for myself, but I like having the database in the same 
location as my images.  Because I constantly backup the images, and so the db 
would be saved, too.
If it is saved in .kde4 folder, this would not be the case.
But for an average user this might be the better solution.

Like mentioned before: what is an average user, what is a pro user?
An advanced user might also want to use RAW importer in the image editor, so 
at least it should be visible what will be set when using "average config 
presets".

Andi