[KimDaBa] Re: Next release one week, then what?!

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

On Sunday 08 May 2005 22:11, Benny Rochwerger wrote:
| On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 14:48 +0200, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
| > | 3. Flexible support for batching operations, for example send the
| > | selected set to a shell script (dragging the selected images to a shell
| > | kind of enables this, but is not as intuitive as to right click and
| > | select a "Send to command"  menuitem. The result of the script anywhere
| > | in the filesystem (i.e., do not necesarily get added to the image
| > | database).
| >
| > Do you have KIPI plugins installed with kimdaba, that does many of those
| > things.
|
| Yes but it is limited to KIPI plugins, hence limited to whatever KIPI
| developers put in the package.  Passing a set of images to a shell
| script enables people to very easily do all kinds of interesting batch
| processing.
Well develop your own kipi plugins which hands things to shell scripts, or 
talk someone into doing it ;-)

| > | 4. Support for a special "State" category that enables images to be
| > | assigned to a single member. This category can then be used as the
| > | driver for the workflow by moving images from one member (state) to
| > | another.  If this is not possible, then at least I think the capability
| > | of "uncategorizing" a set of images together is a must (I used category
| > | members to mark state, and although I can add many images to a category
| > | member with a single command, but I have to remove them from the
| > | temporary (state) category one by one)
| >
| > I simply have the keyword OK set on images that I have categorized. To
| > find those not categorized, I search for !OK.
|
| How do I search for !OK ? In the search window I can't type a keyword
| not in the list and in the quick search, it does nothing.
| Having a keyword that separates categorized images from uncategorized is
| definitely a great feature. But this only enables two states, ideally I
| would like to have a more flexible image state.
Press search from the browser, then in the keywords line edit type !OK press 
search


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