[Digikam-devel] extragear/graphics/digikam/digikam

[Gilles Caulier]

2009/6/14 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> Hmm why do we need alpha channel support? Never seen a photo with an alpha
> channel :D

You cannot limit digiKam to photo. I know a lots of users playing in
digital arts who use digiKam to manage GIF, PNG, TIFF files with alpha
channel dedicated for the web

>
> Well anyway I can't say what I prefer, I can only say that with big
> collections (and we must check this, because this might become quickly an
> issue) the thumbsDB is awfully slow.
> And I don't think any file format will save us from this, because it is sqlite
> that is not good performing here.

agree. sqlite interface need to be improved...

Gilles