[KimDaBa] RAW previews/thumbnails in kimdaba

[Steffen Hansen]

Hi.

I have adapted Dave Coffin's thumbnail extraction code for use with 
kimdaba. This should give us support for previews of many different RAW 
formats.

The code is in the development branch of kimdaba, which you probably 
don't want to bother with right now because of the danger that it will 
destroy your database file or whatever.

Still I'd like to get the code exposed a bit so we can weed out the bugs 
(esp. for cameras I don't have files from), so I have turned the same 
code into a thumbnail creator for konqueror.

Can you give it a try? The code is available from 
http://www.hrhansen.dk/~steffen/hacks/, just unpack and run

./configure && make && make install

(ignore all the warnings -- it seems that Coffin is a great at reverse 
engineering, but not so great at writing tidy code :-)

Then restart KDE. You probably have to open the konqueror config dialog 
and increase the maximum size for files that are considered for 
thumbnails, otherwise it'll skip all your RAW files :)

Another thing: I'm not 100% sure how KMimeMagic works, but if you have 
trouble, edit $KDEDIR/share/mimelnk/magic and comment out the two lines 
for TIFF images -- the rule for matching TIFF contents is very general 
and seems to falsely match some RAW files even though they are not TIFF 
compatible.

regards
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Steffen Hansen          |       Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB
Senior Software Engineer|       http://www.klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
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