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1) I don't care about the modulization brought to me by kipi/kipi-plugins. I 
regard at least some functionality (export, printing, ...) as basics for a 
photo management app so I would install it anyway. Having the kipi stuff 
resist inside digikam makes installation even easier for me so it's a good 
thing (TM). It was always hard for me to understand why I have this 
additional packages to get basic functions but on the other hand showfoto 
resists directly inside digikam, which is not directly linked with the app I 
want. 

2) Digikam releases are available on a regular basis and when they include 
updates to kipi-plugins stuff I would highly appreacheate this over slow 
kipi-plugins releases.

3) When I have a problem I can go straight to the digikam ML without thinking 
about "is this actualy a kipi problem?" - and I guess I meat the same nice 
people cause they do the work anyway - same for bugs on bko.

4) Some constrains given my the modular approach knocked out, so e.g. the 
INTEGRATION of the kipi functionality could be done as it fits best into 
digikam, not as dictated by modular design (hopefully this could bring some 
cleanups to the menus!).   

CONCLUSION: From my point of view as a digikam user there are many advantages 
for integrating the functions provided by kipi-plugins back into 
digikam-core. Now I want to hear your opinions, that means opinions of the 
devels, other digikam user and user of other KDE apps that use kipi (and 
might get some disadvantages from the reintegration of kipi into digikam). 
Looking at the archives I wonder whether there are any non-digikam people on 
that list at all?

Regards,
Sebastian