[Kde-imaging] Get images' thumbnails

[Valerio Fuoglio]

On Sunday 17 June 2007 09:48:21 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 2007/6/17, Valerio Fuoglio <valerio at ulteo.com>:
> > Sorry GIlles, maybe I've lost something... which are these dependencies?
>
> The depency to digiKam thumbnail KIO slave of course (:=))). Are you take a
> look about link to mailing list archive that i have added in this thread ?

Yes, I've read :)
Is there any possibility to drop this dependency? (integrating that code in 
libkipi)

> We need 2 virtual methods witch will be re-implemented by hosts :
>
> - one to extract album thumbnails (supported by digiKam database) : virtual
> QPixmap ImageInfoShared::thumbnail();
>
> - one other to extract image thumbnails : virtual QPixmap
> ImageCollectionShared::thumbnail();
>
> Image thumbnails extraction method must provide the KDE thumbnail
> extraction by default (witch you use in SlideShow). Hosts re-implement
> these methods accordinly with the way used internally (digiKam for ex. has
> a thumbs cache manager).
>
> 2 Host categories must be added : SupportAlbumThumbnail and
> SupportImageThumbnail. Look libkipi/interface.h.
>
> The methods must be generic. No need to bloat api about thumbnail url. I
> think than methods must just return a QPixmap. It's enought...
>
> What do you think about ?

Yes, for me it sounds good :) Great :)

> Gilles

Cheers,
Valerio
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