[Kde-imaging] few questions and comments...

[Renchi Raju]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:

> > > | 3) KIPI::Features::AlbumEQDir : using this feature makes the
> > > | restriction that _all_ albums in the application have to either
> > > | directories or not. digikam now has albums, some of which are
> > > | directories and some of which are not directories. I would like to make
> > > | a request to remove this from the features-list and optionally, move
> > > | the functionality for this into ImageCollection class (something like
> > > | ImageCollection::isDirectory()). i did a grep on the plugins and found
> > > | that none of plugins use this feature currently.
> > >
> > > really? It's been a long time since I did kipi plugin work, but are there
> > > really no plugins that expect albums to be located in directories?
> >
> > none that i know of. gilles will know better about his plugins.
>
> I think the "Dir Operation" uses (or should use) this feature. But I'm not
> sure this plugin is really usefull.

hmm... you are right. right now its broken in the sense that it doesn't
check that app has this feature. if having Album==Dir is an important
feature, can it be moved out of the Feature list and moved into
ImageCollection::isDirectory() instead?

renchi