[Kde-imaging] ImageSelection dialog in kipi plugins

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

Makes good sense.
On Sunday 23 October 2005 09:05, Vardhman Jain wrote:
| On 23/10/05, Jesper K. Pedersen <blackie at blackie.dk> wrote:
| > Could you explain why you would want this feature in the first place.
|
| As digikam improves we have many great feature like quick image search etc,
| when someone wants to upload his /her photographs he might simply like to
| filter the image by search option and then select and upload them all.
|
| to give an example suppose a user who always uses KDE apps, opens a gtk
| app(firefox) and wants to open/save a file, a new kind of dialog pops up
| (GTK fileopen dialog) which looks very premitive compared to what he is
| used to in KDE. He can't particularly use the bookmarks of directory which
| KDE dialog offers in the fileopen dialog. This is ofcourse inconvinient and
| painful.
|
| Similarly if I use digikam for my photomanagement I would expect advance
| digikam features like filtering using tags/ search string etc to be
| available in fileopendialog of digikam, rather than using the old fashioned
| style of browsing by going to each directory etc. For other kipi supporting
| apps this dialog will have no sense because they may not have tags or
| searching functionality as digikam does.
|
| Basically user doesn't care to know if some functionality in digikam is due
| to KIPI plugin or due to digikam's code he should be able to use the
| functionality the best way and not have to change his experience of using
| digikam for that single functionality when in reality its a simple thing to
| implement.
|
| Just my view, Open to your criticism :)
| Vardhman
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