[Digikam-users] Auto-rotate page in showfoto printer

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Dimanche 18 Décembre 2005 11:21, David BERCOT a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I've just added a 'Auto-rotate page' option to ShowFotos printing dialog.
> > When enabled, the page orientation is automatically syncronized with that
> > of the image, saving you from entering the printer properties for that
> > purpose.
> >
> > The change is added to trunk digikam, if you use that version please
> > update and test.
>
> Speaking about showfoto, I have two wishes...
> First of all, I'm looking fora software which can show photos using Exif
> informations... I've tried gqview and gthumb, but there were not ok. So,
> I thought : why not using the add-in for digikam ;-)

On 0.8.0, you have a tool to search image using EXIF comments. You want 
certainly seach and image using others metadata like camera model, exposure 
time, GPS info, etc. 

Search image tool can be improved in the future (later 0.9.0 issue) using new 
Digikam::DImg API in core witch manage image data and metada from JPG, TIFF, 
PNG, etc. But we need to finalize/stabilize/Polish this API before to change 
anything in search tools.

> Second, why showfoto could not make a diaporama automatically (like
> gqview and gthumb) from konqueror or nautilus ? If I open a photo from
> Nautilus in showfoto, I can't do "next" or "previous" for the others
> photos which are in the same directory...

For this point. I had implemented this feature in 0.9.0 unstable (trunk in 
svn). You can open all images from a folder at the same time using GUI. But 
we need to add any others implementations :

- one command line option to open all images from on folder using a script.
- make a showfoto DCOP interface.

Any contributors welcome. These tasks aren't very complicated to do, but i'm 
very busy on others important digiKam parts.

Gilles