[Kde-imaging] libkexif

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 10:10, Renchi Raju wrote:
| Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
| > I'm looking into using libkexif from KimDaBa, and have a few issues:
| > First, if I use the kexif dialog, it would be nice if there where no
| > reference to the competitor (digikam :-) Could we remove this reference
| > in some way?
|
| Umm... the reference comes from the kaboutdata (and its only visible if
| you go into the help->about box), which is needed so that the bugreports
| for libkexif come to digikam bugzilla. unless... you are willing to
| handle/reassign the bugs when they hit kimdaba bugzilla entry :)
Well, hmm I guess I wont really use the dialog in the end, so lets let it be 
for now.

| Additionally, you don't have to use the kexif dialog. You can use
| kexifwidget to embed it into a dialog or any other widgets as you feel
| suited.
|
| > Second, I'd like to show the exif info in a different way in additional
| > to using the dialog, currently KExifIfd is private API, could we change
| > that?
|
| What exactly do you want exposed from the API? The KExifIfd and
| KExifEntry are fairly opaque currently and I don't believe they are very
| useful currently for direct use.
I'd like to display the exif info slightly different, so what I basically want 
is to be able to get to the EXIF info.

Cheers
Jesper.
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