[Kde-imaging] About ImagesGallery plugin

[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Dienstag, 7. Februar 2006 00:01 schrieb Aurelien Gateau:
> Hello,
>
> I originally announced I would work on ImagesGallery plugin this weekend,
> but real life decided other way :-(.
>
> Nevertheless, I have been thinking about it, especially about making it
> simpler.
>
> Here is my proposal:
>
> * 1st page: Album selection
> No change
>
> * 2nd page: Look
> Instead of individual settings like colors, fonts and border sizes, provide
> a list of CSS-based templates. This would have several advantages:
> - Simpler selection
> - Would make it possible to produce much nicer galleries
> - Easily extendable
>
Hello Aurélien,
I'm a digikam manual writer with Gilles and do here and there small 
improvements in the user interface. I also worked on the kipi-plugin manuals. 
Since some time ago I try to come up with a better imagesgallery export 
rendering, in particular on the CSS part. So far I've achieved a floating 
design (instead of fixed columns) and a soft drop-shadow 
(ftp://digikam3rdparty@ftpperso.free.fr/Kipi-Imagegallery/Kipi-float-shadow.png). 
It works in konqueror and firefox. Must still be verified with W3C, Safari 
and IE6.

I fully agree with the idea of using CSS templates for different styles. They 
could be easily enhanced like the digiKam themes for example.

Gerhard