[KPhotoAlbum] Importing Canon raw files

[jedd]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 3:10 am, Mark Eichin wrote:
 ] 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...)

 It's certainly a very complicated situation, and I don't imagine
 there'll be any one solution that'll satisfy everyone.

 I tend to use only JPG's and occasionally PNG's (mostly
 they're what I use to pull in scans of old photos), and the very
 occasional RAW (from my Minolta).  With my PNG's I tend to just
 leave them in their original, large, form -- but sometimes prefer
 to keep a smaller JPG around for browsing.  With RAW's, I definitely
 keep a smaller JPG around, partly because my preferred browser
 doesn't cope with them, but mostly because it's painful to work
 with such large files.

 I imagine that this is the same problem, just with slightly different
 permutations of file types and needs, that everyone else has.

 Robert, I think it was, a while back described his RAW collection as
 the 'drawer' that he will reach into when he needs a pristine copy
 of a file, but the rest of the time he'll use the JPG.  Up until
 Jesper got himself a shiny new camera, it was easy to keep RAW
 files in the same directory structure, as KPA just ignored them.

 It's a nice analogy, though.  I wonder how workable it would be to
 have designated directory names (configurable) that would NOT be
 searched or indexed by KPA -- for example ./drawer/ -- that you could
 keep things in that you don't want KPA to worry itself about, but
 would still allow you to keep everything in a similar directory
 structure to your current layout?

 Any kind of wildcard system would also work, too, say by ignoring
 all *RAW, *raw files (f.e.) -- but I see that getting pretty confusing
 real fast, as the only way to dictate / discover what KPA will ignore
 in your collection is from within KPA -- unlike a directory-name
 ignoring parameter.

 As I say, though, I don't imagine there's going to be a universally
 ideal solution to this problem.

 Jedd.