[Kde-imaging] Some questions...

[Renchi Raju]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Craig Drummond wrote:

> > we will have to discuss that. Aurelien, add this to
> > the TODO list. does it
> > make sense to have app specific plugin configuration
> > or should we use a
> > global config.(Note:i'm in favor of a global config)
>
> OK. So you envisage each plugin using the same config
> file?

yes.

>
> > if you want raw jpeg data, you will have to read the
> > file itself. QImage
> > does not give you raw jpeg data, it gives you the
> > decoded image. you will
> > have to implement the file open/save functions
> > yourself in the plugin.
>
> Yeah I know QImage doesn't give back the raw data. For
> the above I'd actually like both the QImage and the
> raw data. QImage would be used by my code to check if
> a photo has the bad pixel, and then the raw data would
> be fed to jpegpixi. But I'd like to be able to return
> the modified raw data to the app - so that the user
> can then view this before saving. Sort of like how
> Gwenview currently does its rotation with jpegtran.

not sure how gwenview does it. but at least in digikam, we don't retain
the raw image data.

> >
> > > | 7. I'm also writing a simple plugin to acquire
> > images
> > > | from a camera (either via KDE's camera:/
> > ioslave, or
> > > | by mounting the device), and re-naming (based
> > upon
> > > | exif data) the images before saving to the
> > target
> > > | folder - i.e. all my photos are named
> > "YYYY-MM-DD
> > > | hh:mm:ss.jpg". Does this sound useful to anyone
> > other
> > > | than myself?
> > > Indeed! I would love to see such a plugin for
> > kimdaba.
> >
> > another plugin to put on the digikam ignore list :).
>
> Yup. I looked at digikam - but for for my USB camera,
> the mount-point combo-box is disabled...

usb camera as in a usb-mass-storage camera? mountpoints make sense only
for mass-storage cameras. if its a bug, please file a bug report.

renchi