KAlbumPhoto

[Carsten Pfeiffer]

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On Wednesday 15 January 2003 23:56, Ricardo Niederberger Cabral wrote:

> > > But merging should'nt be accurate, because each application is
> > > designed to aswer a demand.

Exactly. I'm not a fan of big killer applications, I like interoperation of 
small tools.

> > I totally agree, and of course it's the very reason why I started
> > working on kalbum! Perhaps we could all think about sharing meta info
> > and mime types or even moving this discussion to a more suitable
> > place :)

Yes. I'm not sure if kimageshop@kde.org is the right place, maybe a 
kdegraphics-devel mailinglist would be better?

> I'm the author of imgSeek, and I'm also looking for a more suitable (that
> is, interchangeable) format to store image metadata. I'm willing to change
> whatever necessary to integrate imgSeek better to a KDE desktop.

Some metadata can be stored inside images (e.g. EXIF data in jpegs). We have 
KFileMetaInfo et al as a generic means to access all kinds of metadata. I 
guess with imgSeek you're having much more metadata than comments, 
resolution, size etc. Do you know about www.fer-de-lance.org, the GIFT (GNU 
Image Finding Tool) and kmrml as frontend (kmrml is to be seen as proof of 
concept, a first version currently).

> The other point I think that need to be thought is where to place generated
> thumbnails. When starting imgSeek, I asked on a mailing list if there were
> any standard, and what I got was: http://triq.net/~pearl/thumbnail-spec/, 
> so that is what I used.

So you're not using the KDE Thumbnail facility? It automatically handles all 
that, you just request a thumbnail for a url. See KIO::PreviewJob and e.g. 
kio/kfile/kfileiconview.cpp as an example where it's used.

Cheers
Carsten Pfeiffer
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