image viewers: a different approach

Tom Albers tomalbers at kde.nl
Sun Oct 30 20:13:32 GMT 2005


Op zondag 30 oktober 2005 20:50, schreef Anders Lund:
> On Sunday 30 October 2005 22:29, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> > I would be for getting rid of the old apps and adding the gwenview part.
> >  As for gwenview the application in its current form^1 I would say we
> > don't want it, but rather want digikam or Kimdaba.
>
> Both digikam and kimdaba have a monolithic view of the world: they want you
> to define exactly one folder that they will help you organize. And to
> support that browsing, they create databases with metadata. So they are not
> really up for the task of browsing various directories.

Showfoto does not use a database.

Toma
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