[Kde-imaging] Re: [Bug 88262] support for Gallery Remote protocol

[Renchi Raju]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Riku Voipio wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 01:08:45AM -0000, Renchi Raju wrote:
> > i have put up a snapshot of the new KIPI galleryexport plugin (exports
> > images to remote gallery [http://gallery.sf.net]) at this page:
> > http://pooh.tam.uiuc.edu/galleryexport/
>
> > Please report problems to kde-imaging kde org or bugs.kde.org (product
> > kipiplugins, component galleryexport)
>
> Works great, thanks! so far the only "problem" I have is that when
> exporting, you have typically 2 transistient windows on top of digikam,
> for example the "image selector dialog" on top of "gallery export"
> window on top of digikam. Which is kinda annoying, if at that point you
> want to go back to digikam to add a missing caption to an image..

unfortunately can't do that. the kipi-plugins are designed to be modal,
i.e block access to host app while they are acting. this is because there
is no dynamic communication between the app and the plugins, i.e. plugins
don't get informed if any of the files/comments/metadata they are
working on are changed by the host app.

one possible way to get over this limitation would be to extend the image
selector dialog to provide options to edit the captions (and few other
metainfo) (which is sent back to the host app)

renchi