[Digikam-devel] Digikam-devel Digest, Vol 57, Issue 117 - akonadi & GSOC

[Jens Müller]

I think I should mention this:

It is just a tryout on my own. I do _not_ want to make the design decisions on 
my own, I just followed the tutorials.
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Ouups, last saturday I played arround with akonadi and get a first
>>> exporter showing up inside. Nothing spectacual, my aim was to get
>>> something more before publishing. So if you want a GSOC task, I can stop
>>> working on this?
>>> :o)
>>> 
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/47251968@N04/4379014747/
>> 
>> I am not involved in this at all, I just remember the last coding sprint
>> with lots of talk about this and was wondering about current status.
>> 
> 
> Don't expect to much. I played only one day with it to get a feeling what
> is akonadi and what it is for. Currently I can only list the albums and
> contents of a specific user and show them as a collection inside akonadi.
> There has to be a lot of more:
> - a model for images/videos
> - more plugins
> - better configuration dialogs (with login)
> - a decision where to store thumbnails (I think a attribute will be best)
> - a item fetch and caching strategy (not download of all images on
> listing) - ...
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> What about CMYK-support? There is an entry already:
>>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220312
>> 
>> This bug is about loading, and is relatively easy to implement.
>> You probably think of full CMYK support, including editing and saving?
>> That is a task so huge that I dont think we even want to have this.
> 
> ok, it was just an idea. I can not rate what is good for GSOC and what
> not.
> 
> Regards, Jens