New digiKam plugins interface is mostly done...

[Maik Qualmann]

It all looks very nice, I'll compile it soon. ((:-))

Maik

Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2019, 06:53:05 CET schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> Hi all,
> 
> After 2 weeks of intensive developement in a dedicated branch, I proud to
> announce that i completed the first stage of the new digiKam plugins
> interface :
> 
> https://imgur.com/a/U0TkB8k
> 
> As you can see, we have more than 30 plugins now. It's a similar situation
> that we have with KIPI stuff. This will be available to 6.1.0 release, not
> 6.0.0 whitch is frozen stage now....
> 
> The second stage will start to open Batch Queue Manager to the plugin
> interface, and permit to use webservices tools in a workflow.
> 
> Later, i will open the image editor tool to the new plugins interface too,
> and permit to contributor to easily write a digiKam extension without to
> touch the core implementation. For ex, i would like to see somebody coding
> a plugins for the Qt GMic plugin, already available to Gimp, Krita, and
> Paint.net :
> 
> https://github.com/c-koi/gmic-qt
> 
> There is also a whish to open the digiKam database interface to a plugins
> mechanism. All is possible if we don't fragilise the application stability
> and the performance. So the topic still open...
> 
> Best
> 
> Gilles Caulier