[KPhotoAlbum] Importing Canon raw files

[Mark Eichin]

I'd love a generic "show this image but manipulate these other files
too" approach, because then I could use it with avis and PDFs too
(even if it meant producing thumbnails externally, though if kde has
something equivalent to the gnome thumbnailers that might also
work...)

On 5/9/06, Rob Miller <rob at janerob.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 May 2006, Shawn Willden wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 08 April 2006 10:43, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
>
> >> Currently KPhotoAlbum finds both of these files.  I suggest (as an
> >> RFE) that it only find the RAW file if the JPEG file doesn't also exist.
> >
> > I think we may need to spend a little time thinking about how KPA should
> > handle RAW+JPEG and other scenarios.
>
> there was also a message on nikon .nef files recently along similar lines.  I liked the idea about 'folding' similar/related images
> together, but does seem like the easiest way to do this might be based on matching file names.  in moving my image collection to kpa I am
> running across some issues I believe to be related:
>
> - .mov, .mpg, .avi video files produced by some of my cameras aren't found by kpa (they aren't photos of course!)
> - folder use doesn't seem to be extensively supported; I tried changing folder settings on a set of images hoping they would be moved, but
> it didn't happen.
> - it seems like the file delete would be safer if it could be configured to instead move the files to a dir somewhere outside of the one kpa
> is working with (a.k.a. trashcan)?
>
> perhaps part of a solution would involve configurable actions based on file extension - "don't show", "move to blah/blah", "use
> external program", maybe some others?
>
> just and idea...
>
> rob.
>
>
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