[Kde-imaging] New category 'COLLECTIONSPLUGIN' ?

[Caulier Gilles]

Le mercredi 16 Juin 2004 16:56, Renchi Raju a écrit :
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> > Le mercredi 16 Juin 2004 09:13, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> >
> > Hum... I know how it's organized right now. My point was to suggest
> > another, more logical to me, organization.
> >
> > Why should acquireimage goes into "Tools" and rawconverter into "Batch"
> > and "Tools"? Don't they fulfill the definition of "Import" plugins? What
> > should the "Import" plugins do?
>
> acquireimage should go into the Import plugins. but its not naturally
> intuitive for a user to look for the rawconverter plugin in the import
> category; he/she will most likely look it under the tools menu, because
> it acts on an existing image(in raw mode) in the app. imho it
> also makes sense to put the batch mode of the rawconverter just by it and
> not separately into the batch menu.
>
> > Why is mpegencoder in "Batch"? Does it modify the images? No, but it
> > produce other data, so it should go into "Export".
>
> agree.
>
> > Why are timeadjust and jpeglossless in "Images"? to me losslessly
> > rotating a collection of images is an operation which should go in the
> > same category that resizing a collection of images.
>
> timeadjust and jpeglossless act on individual images and also on a set of
> images. since the primary intention is to act on a single image i.e.
> modify the image, it makes sense to put it under the "Images" category
> (which iirc was for plugins which edit/modify the image).
>
> > > The 'batch' category is dedicaced for the plugins who works on a group
> > > of images at the same time...
> >
> > I would replace "work" with "manipulate". Because if you go this way, you
> > can put the slideshow plugin in the "Batch" category too. That's the goal
> > of my suggestion:
> >
> > * Import
> > Plugins which get images from an external source and give them to the
> > host app.
> >
> > * Export
> > Plugins which take a collection of images provided by the host app and
> > produce something else.
> >
> > * Batch processing
> > Plugins which manipulate a collection of images provided by the host app.
> >
> > * Tools
> > Plugins which work with a collection of images provided by the host app,
> > but do not modify the image and do not produce anything.
>
> agree with all of the above. but why restrict Tools to not allow to modify
> the image or produce anything. Tools in my opinion should act as a
> "miscellaneous" category.
>
> renchi

I have provide all modifications in CVS in according with this thread...

Please updated your host apps and kipi, try with that, and let's me hear your 
viewpoints...

Gilles