Digikam raw files and darktable

[Simon Frei]

First thing to do is open a bugzilla issue where you describe what you want:
https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=digikam&format=guided
There you probably get better pointers for where to start from
experienced devs, I never worked with that part of the code. This is the
function that creates thumbnails:
https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/libs/threadimageio/thumbnailcreator.cpp?id=429fa5fd8e7f53b74c82eb19dffb2e6cf4b4325c#n455

On 06/01/17 20:18, Juan Jose Casafranca wrote:
> Yes, exactly, that is my suggestion :-)
> I think that it will give digikam a great boost if it can communicate
> with specific raw processors :-)
>
> I understand that it could be an intensive task, but there are some
> ways to limit the heavyness.
> For example, digikam should only process the new thumbnail when
> darktable is opened through digikam interface and at the beginning.
> Or maybe just marking which files are dirty and then calling darktable
> in lib mode to update those thumbnails. 
>
> I would be happy to work on something like this. Any idea on where to
> begin with? Ive never touched the digikam code ^^
>
> Cheers
>
> 2017-01-06 20:10 GMT+01:00 Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com
> <mailto:freisim93 at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Do I understand you correctly: You want thumbnails of raw files
>     that are
>     adjusted based on the processing profiles of darktable?
>     If that is the case, it is (currently) not possible in digikam.
>     And such
>     a function would certainly be very resource heavy, as for every
>     thumbnail on every change darktable had to process the raw file.
>     The interface between digikam and other photo editing software could
>     certainly be improved (e.g. versioning too), so I would be very
>     happy if
>     you would work on that in any way;)
>
>     Cheers,
>     Simon
>
>     On 06/01/17 20:01, Juan Jose Casafranca wrote:
>     > Hi everybody,
>     >
>     > I would like to know if there is any easy way to use digikam as
>     a photo
>     > management software and use darktable for raw editing.
>     >
>     > The main issue I'm finding when I try to do this is this one
>     > -Raw thumbnails are loaded from the jpeg embeded file and when I
>     change process
>     > my photo in darktable, this thumbnail isn't changed in digikam
>     >
>     > It would be nice that digikam reads the darktable sidecar and
>     uses an specified
>     > software (or digikam editor tool if no software is specified) to
>     load the
>     > preview file for raw pictures. Is there any way to do this?
>     >
>     > If there's no such way to do this, I will be happy to post it in the
>     > developers mailing list and try to implement it, because I feel
>     that darktable
>     > management features are far away from digikam ones and digikam
>     editor features
>     > are far away from darktable ones. It would be nice to have both
>     softwares
>     > working together :-)
>     >
>     > Any idea?
>
>
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/attachments/20170106/6cf02c17/attachment.html>