[Kde-imaging] location to place images

Jesper K. Pedersen blackie at kde.org
Sun May 9 23:01:50 CEST 2004


On Sunday 09 May 2004 00:28, Aurelien Gateau wrote:
| Le vendredi 7 Mai 2004 11:57, Jesper K. Pedersen a écrit :
| > Acquire Images - take 2
| >
| > The plugin wants to save the acquired images to a directory. Currently
| > the user specifies an album from a list of all albums.
| >
| > But given KIPI have decoupled the albums and directories this does not
| > work anymore. (In KIPI an album can consist of files from several
| > directories and does therefore not itself specify a directory)
| >
| > The plugin also has a button labeled "Add album". Which in KimDaBa
| > doesn't make any sense as albums are only a virtual concept.
| >
| > Suggestions how to solve these issues?
| >
| > I'll check in my modification to the plugin now, that compiles but with
| > large parts of the code commented out.
|
| Hum, no real idea for now :(. I would suggest to provide a file dialog for
| the destination dir, and to remove/hide the "Add album" button for now.
| I'll send a new mail in case I think about anything smarter.
Now the $100.000 question is:
Where should this file dialog start out from?
Aren't we back to the ImageCollection::baseDir() which we removed a few weeks 
ago?

Cheers
Jesper


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