[KimDaBa] Re: Wish-list for kimdaba

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

Just a short note, saying that I completely agree with you.
It has from the beginning been a design goal that KimDaBa should be utterly
easy to install not requiring other stuff. An example of that is the use of
XML rather than a database.

When version 1.1 has been released, I'll start on making a plugin structure
for KimDaBa, which allows adding extra feature to KimDaBa as
plugins, so the core continues to compile on its own, and if you want to use a
third party lib for some part, then that is a separate compile process.

Cheers
Jesper.


Tony Willoughby <tonyw at pobox.com> writes:

| On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 14:22, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
| > Some general information in this email, so I expected that a reply to all
| > would have made it to the list, so here is a forward ;-)
| > 
| > 
| > ______________________________________________________________________
| > From: Jesper K. Pedersen <blackie at kde.org>
| > To: Torben Menke <torben_menke at hotpop.com>
| > Subject: Re: Wish-list for kimdaba
| > Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:12:01 +0100
| > 
| > Torben Menke <torben_menke at hotpop.com> writes:
| 
| <snip>
| 
| > 
| > | For me it would be perfect if it would be possible to export my image database 
| > | to a php web-space. Because than searching and filtering of images would be 
| > | possible. I have some experiences with php and I think that this is not 
| > | difficult. At least not if there is one single ~php-database~ file. This 
| > | ~web-GUI~ would be a lot nicer than fixed html pages.
| > OK, let me consider that....done ;-)
| > KimDaBa have undergone some work wrt to the HTML output, no fancy php
| > stuff, but it does indeed look a lot better now. With the help of Teemu
| > Rytilahti, KimDaBa now supports themes, which hopefully will make it look
| > even better, once people start contributing themes.
| > 
| 
| <snip>
| 
| The fact that KimDaBa is *self-contained* is what attracted me to it. 
| Programs similar to KimDaBa require setting up a real database and / or
| webservers.  I'm not interested in that, I just want a quick and easy
| way to find a specific picture among the thousands on my disk.  KimDaBa
| does exactly that.
| 
| If Torben's feature can be added to KimDaBa without forcing me to use a
| database or server (via compile time options or plugins or some other
| magic) that would be cool.  Please don't overlook the appeal that
| simplicity has.  :^)
| 
| Thanks for a great program!