[Digikam-users] workflow?

[Arnd Baecker]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Gilles Caulier wrote:

> Interresing. I suspect that you use gcc 4.1... right ?

I am running debian sarge, so it is  gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared
--enable-__cxa_atexit --with-system-zlib --enable-nls
--without-included-gettext --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug
--enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i486-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
abaecker has logged on pts/14 from :0.0 at 15:29

> I have never tried to compile with gcc 4.1. Here i use mandriva 2006 :
>
> [gilles at localhost dany]$ gcc -v
> Using built-in specs.
> Target: i586-mandriva-linux-gnu
> Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib
> --with-slibdir=/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
> --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking
> --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,f95,objc,java --host=i586-mandriva-linux-gnu
> --with-system-zlib --enable-long-long --enable-__cxa_atexit
> --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk
> --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre --enable-gtk-cairo
> --disable-libjava-multilib
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 4.0.1 (4.0.1-5mdk for Mandriva Linux release 2006.0)
> [gilles at localhost dany]$
>
> And there is no problem like this (I'm compiling digikam all days).

I would have thought so ;-).

Overall it seems that it got pretty far.
Re-reading the error message a couple of times led me
to the following work-around:
  cp digikam_export.h /home/abaecker/NBB/SOFTWARE/digikam3/include

Then the whole compile works fine and no problems when running!

Now back to the workflow:

My first impression on the the new "Comments & Tags" sidebar is
*very* positive - you are really doing an excellent job!!

Apart from the tagging of all selected images (which you already
mentioned that it will be more difficult to implement)
I am wondering whether the fastest way of tagging and rating
a sequence of individual pictures would be via the keyboard. E.g.:
 - pressing 0-5  in the window with thumbnails assigns the rating
 - pressing any letter "a-z/A-Z" (which could correspond to the first
   letter in a tag) assigns (or better: toggle) the tick for the tag

By this one could quickly go through all images with the cursor
keys and assign everything without a single mouse move ...

Just some thoughts (comments welcome!) ...

Best, Arnd