[Kde-imaging] cdarchiving maintainance and imagegallery(2) thoughts

[Aurelien Gateau]

Le Lundi 20 Février 2006 18:53, Sebastian Röder a écrit :
> The question is for me, what we can/should do in the meantime with the
> cdarchiving plugin in kipi-plugins (OK, this is not so much for you Gilles
> since you do not want to maintain kipi-plugins anymore but the people here
> in kde-imaging).
>
> 1. Should we remove it from kipi-plugins cause it's absolete, closing all
> bugs related to cdarchiving? This depends on whether it is used at all by
> any other app from kde-imaging. I would asume in this case that backup
> functionality is handled seperatly by each app then.

I would like to see it alive since I don't plan to implement such a feature in 
Gwenview, but I don't have time to maintain it :-(

> Regarding html exports - is java an option? jalbum is a quite powerful app
> to create html galleries and it provides many "themes". html code and css
> are seperated and it is under LGPL (is this a problem). Just an idea, don't
> know if we can make is a kipi-plugin at all ...

Looks really nice! But I didn't find any package for it in any distro :-(. 
Considering that Java applications can be troublesome to package and might 
not always work well if not running with Sun JVM, I'm not sure it's a good 
idea to depend on such an application.

Aurélien