[Digikam-devel] Re: Needing ideas for Rosedu's Open Source Development Course

[Gilles Caulier]

2011/2/24 Gabriel Voicu <ping.gabi at gmail.com>:
> Hello everyone,
>
> The course began this saturday. there are 15 students, 2 of them working on
> the Digikam project. Initially, 5 of them wanted to work on Digikam, but
> because I don't have time, we ended up in having just two. :-( The course
> will be finished around 17th of April.
>
> Now, I will list the ideas and please let me know if you are OK with us
> implementing them in this period (February 26 - April 17).
>
> 1) GUI refactoring:
>
> Each student will have to refactor a GUI. These should be an easy task to
> help them get used to digikam/kipi code/coding style. Each one of the 2
> students will refactor a GUI. I've chosen these 2 widgets to modify, but if
> you have something else in mind, please let me know:
>
> 1.1) "Merge MetadaEdit EXIF/IPTC/XMP dialogs to one dialog with tabs.
>
> The goal is to reduce MetadataEdit menu enties in kipi host application.
> Currently, we can edit Exif or Iptc, or Xmp using dedicated dialog. it's too
> long if users want to modify Exif and Xmp values for ex. it need to
> open/close 2 dialogs"
>
> 1.2)  Refactor DNG converter.
>
> If I understood well, the task here is to use KipiPlugins::ImagesList
> instead of it's ImageList. Am I right?

yes, eaxctly.

The same work need to do it on RAWConverter plugin, which use a very
similar code. In fact, i started to implement DNG converter using Raw
Converter GUI code.

>
>
> 2) Implement face tags with regions to files:
>
> "We also still don't have any code that saves people tags with regions to
> files. We discussed some possible options about using RDF etc. So here
> one could write code that takes a face tag with region coordinates, and
> writes it into XMP via libkexiv2, and can also produce a face tag from
> the XMP. Here, one would need to know the representation of face tags
> inside digikam, and then spend some time getting save/load code to work
> using test based development, without touching any digikam code. Once
> the code is done, either the students or a digikam developer would
> integrate it into the image metadata load/save routines of digikam."
>
> In big lines, these are the tasks. If we finish earlier than February 17, we
> will start and fixing some bugs. After we finish each task, we will send a
> patch to merge it with the current code.

fine...

Gilles Caulier