[Digikam-users] Odp: Search GUI (was Re: (no subject))

[Piotr Tarnowski]

Graham,

I often use command line, but I cannot agree this is central idea of 
Linux way ... For me Linux is efficiency and freedom of choice. When I 
have to switch from GUI to CLI because GUI cut-off some feature or when 
I have to click 1000 times to get result which is possible with one 
sentence this smells like Windows.

I think digiKam could follow the (probably PERL) rule: simple things and 
easy to do, complex are possible. If people can build digiKam from 
sources (and many do) they probably will not worry about some extended 
features like more powerful search.

Hope that settings check or context menu switch for more powerful search 
features could be accepted by all of us.

Regards,
Piotr Tarnowsi

Dnia 6-01-2008 o godz. 8:16 Graham napisał(a):
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 23:00:59 +0000
> hex <hex at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I'm a complete Linux 'newbie' so like the idea of a nice 'windozy'
> > search GUI.....
> [snipped]
> 
> Please don't top-post as it makes following an email quoting others,
> less easy to follow.
> 
> Now to specifics: isn't Beagle with the Kerry interface sufficient?  It
> can search specifically for images.  Its not specific to Digikam but is
> there any reason why Digikam should duplicate a facility that already
> exists? Then there's always the file manager Krusader, which has
> excellent search facilities too.
> 
> Why re-invent the wheel?
> 
> On an other point, you're now using Linux, one of the most powerful and
> secure operating systems created, not Windows.  Why do you want
> something to act "windozy"?  I assume you mean easy to use, but often a
> GUI calls upon a CLI command and doesn't use all of the options
> available (clearly this is a generalisation) so ease of use sometimes
> means using the CLI commands to harness the power that Linux
> applications hold.  A good example is MPlayer: most facilities can be
> accessed through the GUI, but there's even more facilities available
> through the CLI.  Once you've used the CLI and got used to it, you tend
> to use it for even those commands you could use through the GUI.
> 
> That the Linux way......
> 
> --
> 
> Graham
> 
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