[Kde-imaging] Selecting images for plugins

[Renchi Raju]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:

> Le lundi 28 Juin 2004 17:51, Renchi Raju a écrit :
> >
> > you mean all the images are returned as one list? i don't see how its
> > useful, as the cdarchiving plugin (if it uses this list) will have to put
> > all the images in one folder on the cd.
>
> After thinking about it, I think a better place would be as a static method in
> ImageCollection:
> class ImageCollection {
>   ...
>   static KURL::List join(QValueList<ImageCollection>);
>   ...
> }
>
> But it's just a helper function. If you don't think it's useful, let's forget
> it.

helper functions are always welcome.

> > imo the multiselection option is not very useful. if an album doesn't want
> > multiple albums, there is no point providing a selector to choose
> > albums.
>
> Well, looking at the current plugins, it seems only the import plugins would
> need single selection, but that's TODO point #2. Let me start another thread
> for it :-). For now, I agree we can forget this multiSelection option.
> This means the "API" is reduced to:

even the import plugin doesn't need a single selection from the albums.
it needs a directory (and in case of kimdaba doesn't necessarily translate
to an album)

renchi