[Kde-imaging] List of Digikam plugins to port in a first time to LIBKIPI on KDE CVS !

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Le Vendredi 30 Avril 2004 08:58, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> Le Vendredi 30 Avril 2004 00:53, Aurelien Gateau a écrit :
> > Le jeudi 29 Avril 2004 15:04, Jesper K. Pedersen a écrit :
> > > | 11- Calendar -> uncomplete feature. Can be ported but must be
> > > | improved by Renchi Raju. (Renchi Raju <renchi at pooh dot tam dot
> > > | uiuc dot edu>)
> >
> > This evening I was thinking about the file dialog of this one: since KIPI
> > albums are not dir based, I think we could replace the KFileDialog with a
> > dialog which would let the user choose an image from the album files.
> >
> > In a first version, this dialog could just show a KListView, then we
> > could make a more advanced one which would show a thumbnail and other
> > image information.
> >
> > What do you think about this?
>
> Sure, this a possible way. But I think the Digikamplugins port to LIBKIPI
> must be done with this stages :
>
> 1/ -> Simple port. No new features.
> 2/ -> Integration of Libkipi on all potential images clients :
> Digikam/Kimdaba/Gwenview/Showimg.
> 3/ -> Testing and debuging like this.
> 4/ -> Released the LibKipi and Images clients -> Users feedback !
> 5/ -> Created a full list of common needed/news features.
> 6/ -> Added/improved features of LibKipi. Change/adapted some concepts if
> necessary.
> 7/ -> Adapted the libkipi integration in images clients if necessary
> 8/ -> Re-testing and validate like this.
> 9/ -> Released Libkipi and the images clients.

I agree with this plan. My point is that since albums are no more dir based in 
KIPI, we need to adapt plugins which assume album==dir. It's just porting, no 
new feature.

Regards,
  Aurélien