[Digikam-users] just an idea - what do you think?

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> Hello ingenious digiKam programmers, hi dear users
>
> now that cameras generate that huge files (and above all poor kde users
> soon must suffer from kde4's hunger for computer power), things get slower
> again...
>
> Now when I do some corrections using digicam (even just a crop), of course
> I have to save the file before I can continue with the next picture. 44MB
> png: I light a cigarette...24%, and wait...36% and smoke....68%...
>
> If I could just save my *actions* in a file (a "recorder") without saving
> the *result* of my actions  to the actual files, I could easily go to the
> next picture, do my corrections, save the action for that picture, go to
> the next... and only at the end, when I go out to have a coffee in the sun,
> I let run the saved actions and let them be applied and saved to the files.
>
> I would save all the waiting time - and a lot of cigarettes ;-)
>
> Is this idea stupid, an old hat, very healthy, or what do you think?
> Would it be easy to add to digiKams functionalities?

The idea of recording actions is in our minds as well (at least in mine, 
that's what I can speak of). The focus is not so much on saving time for file 
compression but rather to know what you have done to an image and can see the 
history.
And no it is not easy to add to digikam - a full blown implementation is not 
an afternoon's hack but a few weeks' work. But yes, we will get to this at 
some point in time.
You are very welcome to detail your ideas and tell us your requirements!

Marcel

>
> I'm looking forward to read your thoughts.
>
> Daniel


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