Editing or changing colorschemes on windows

[Gilles Caulier]

Just a feedback of cost of developement of digiKAm from OpenHub
(uncomplete because it start in 2004 and stop 6 month ago) :

https://www.openhub.net/p/digikam/estimated_cost

The source code is around 1.200.000, not 500.000 as given in
statistics. But this give you the amount of phenomenal work to do to
write this application (and to maintain of course).

Coverity scan give more details about source code :

https://scan.coverity.com/projects/digikam

... but nothing about estimated devel costs...

Gilles Caulier

2017-07-19 16:57 GMT+02:00 Friedrich Seuhs <f_seuhs at gmx.at>:
> Exactly!
>
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2017 um 16:43 Uhr
> Von: "Andrey Goreev" <aegoreev at gmail.com>
> An: "digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power
> of open source" <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Betreff: Re: Re: Editing or changing colorschemes on windows
> I think he meant that if digiKam is more usable on Windows it will generate
> more donations to the project in future.
>
> Best regards,
>
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Mica Semrick <mica at silentumbrella.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> > you have also an "Donate" button on the homepage. ... I believe you
>> > could generate much more donates from windows user if this (probably simple
>> > to correct) bug will be corrected.
>>
>> Instead of thinking "I'd donate if just one more bug is fixed" please
>> consider that digikam has been going since the early 2000 and there must be
>> thousands and thousands of unpaid man hours in this project. Donate because
>> of what's already been done, not because something new needs to happen.
>>
>> -m
>>
>> On July 19, 2017 7:30:30 AM PDT, Friedrich Seuhs <f_seuhs at gmx.at> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have tried all schemes available on windows, all have drawbacks. Mostly
>>> not recogniceable icon on buttons with mouse over or not, or unredable text
>>> in tooltips. High contrast is not presented.
>>>
>>> A word to emotions.
>>> It is open source. But you have also an "Donate" button on the homepage.
>>> I am sure that I am not the only windows user who made similar experiance
>>> (emotion) after installing it on windows and started the software. It is the
>>> first impression you get from digikam. I believe you could generate much
>>> more donates from windows user if this (probably simple to correct) bug will
>>> be corrected. The software for itself is very good and very cometitive in
>>> comparsion with commercial windows photosoftware.
>>>
>>> Regards F. Seuhs
>>>
>>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2017 um 15:30 Uhr
>>> Von: "Andrey Goreev" <aegoreev at gmail.com>
>>> An: "digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
>>> power of open source" <digikam-users at kde.org>
>>> Betreff: Re: Aw: Re: Editing or changing colorschemes on windows
>>> In that case you should adjust the color scheme of your system. I am
>>> pretty sure there are high contrast themes/schemes shipped with Windows.
>>>
>>> And please do not get too emotional. Dealing with imperfections is a part
>>> of the deal when using an open source software. The whole idea is that you
>>> can download the source code, patch the bug and suggest it to the developers
>>> or just keep it for yourself. It does not happen very often in real life
>>> because most users are no programmers but emotional comments do not help
>>> either. Just a suggestion.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>>>
>>> -------- Original message --------
>>> From: Friedrich Seuhs <f_seuhs at gmx.at>
>>> Date: 2017-07-19 7:10 AM (GMT-07:00)
>>> To: digikam-users at kde.org
>>> Subject: Aw: Re: Editing or changing colorschemes on windows
>>>
>>> It is not only a quality from my screen, it is also a proble at the
>>> moment because I am using it in the garden in the shadow.
>>> The problem is ot the pictdititing, the problem is to read all text and
>>> buttons of the program. I do not editing pictures on my laptop, I want to
>>> geomap, add tags, manage the collections and so on.
>>>
>>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2017 um 14:33 Uhr
>>> Von: "Andrey Goreev" <aegoreev at gmail.com>
>>> An: "digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
>>> power of open source" <digikam-users at kde.org>
>>> Betreff: Re: Editing or changing colorschemes on windows
>>> Hello,
>>> I have exactly the same problem. It does not matter what system you are
>>> at (Linux, Windows, Mac). I think it is just a low quality of a laptop's
>>> screen. I use an external monitor most of the time which solves the problem.
>>> When I am working without an external monitor I kind of know now how the
>>> colors are going to look like on my large monitor, on paper and on my
>>> phone/tablet screen.
>>> Many people use calibrators to make picture look the same on all displays
>>> as well as on paper but I guess I am being too cheap to spend $100 on a
>>> device without trying it first. I should have just bought it but I
>>> personally don't believe that a color scheme going to make picture on a
>>> crappy display look any better. Hopefully I am wrong.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>>>
>>> -------- Original message --------
>>> From: Friedrich Seuhs <f_seuhs at gmx.at>
>>> Date: 2017-07-19 6:08 AM (GMT-07:00)
>>> To: digikam-users at kde.org
>>> Subject: Editing or changing colorschemes on windows
>>>
>>> First let me say, I realy like digikam!
>>>
>>> I am a windows user!
>>> But the existing colorschemes for windows make me crazy!
>>> For my desktop with a better monitor I found a scheme, that is far away
>>> from perfect, but it enables me to work with it.
>>> For my laptop I cound not find any of the included schemes that is
>>> acceptable for me. The differences in gray are so small, that I cannot see
>>> for example the different buttons and the icons on it. Standard scheme shows
>>> unreadable tool-tips!
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a possibility to edit the colrschemefiles with a little comfort?
>>> Editing in text and restarting digikam is too timeconsuming.
>>> Or is there anyone who has colorschemefiles with more contast and will
>>> share with me?
>>>
>>> Many thanks Fritz