[Kde-imaging] ROADMAP/TODO ?

[Renchi Raju]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Caulier Gilles wrote:

> Le jeudi 17 Juin 2004 18:00, Aurélien Gâteau a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > Looking at how there's a lot of activity in libkipi and kipi-plugins, and
> > taking into account the fact that Jesper would like to start using KIPI
> > releases, I think we need some kind of ROADMAP/TODO to define what remains
> > to be done before we can consider KIPI ready and can freeze the API.
> >
> > Here is my own list:
> > - Find an agreement on the way KIPI plugins should import images. We
> > started to discuss this with Jesper on a late evening, but stopped because
> > of tiredness :-)
> > - Make a decision on some terms: should we use "album" or "image
> > collection" or both (if so, explain the difference in a README file)
> > - Use d pointers in all public classes. This is necessary to achieve binary
> > compatibility.
> > - Fix configure scripts (Slideshow problems).
> > - Set in stone the category list.
> >
> > What do you think about this? If everyone find this useful, we could create
> > a TODO file in libkipi.
>
> Another TODO actions :
>
> - Fixed important memory leak in CDArchiving, ImagesGallery, and FindDuplicate
> plugins (Digikam crash when the host is closed !). This is the result of the
> currrent port, this problem do not exist in Digikamplugins.
>
> - Fixed all PENDING actions (this is a big list).
>
> - Added separate handbooks for each plugins (like kate plugins). This
> handbooks will be created from the current Digikam handbook including
> actually a small description of each digikamplugins.

just one more that i can think of at this time:

- use namespace wrapping for all plugin classes. if a plugin has a class
called Image and the host app has the a class with the same name, then you
will have wierd unpredictable crashes.

renchi