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

[Renchi Raju]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:

> On Monday 06 September 2004 17:58, Renchi Raju wrote:
> | On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> | > Le lundi 6 Septembre 2004 16:58, Renchi Raju a écrit :
> | > > > 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?
> | >
> | > I would personally just drop this plugin, because I don't see any real
> | > use for it, but if you prefer keeping it then your solution is fine with
> | > me.
> |
> | i would let gilles decide that, as this is his plugin.
> |
> | jesper,gilles... ok to remove AlbumEQDir from features list and moved to
> | ImageCollection?
>
> Well the point is that this plugin would not make any sense if the host app
> did not have this feature, would it.
>
> So therefore this plugin should put this requirement in the desktop file (as
> it actually does), so host applications which do not have this setup simply
> can ignore this plugin.
>
> So I don't think it should be removed, maybe we should add your suggested
> method in addition instead.

in our case (digiKam), some of the albums are directories and some of the
albums are not. so unlike AlbumEQDir which makes a black and white
distinction (app has the feature or app doen't have the feature), we fall
into the grey area. only at runtime, can we determine whether the album is
a directory or not.

renchi