[KPhotoAlbum] a working photo interface

[Heinz Kohl]

Am Donnerstag 08 Februar 2007 15:20 schrieb Tero Tilus:
> 2007-02-08 14:30, Heinz Kohl:
> > O.k., the theoretic concept of KPA is working and o.k.  I was
> > expecting, that the remaining main weaknesses of the concept would
> > have been removed soon, and that the painstaking fine work belonging
> > to the man machine interaction would have been started soon.  I'm
> > seeing no trend in such a direction.
>
> That's (as in every free software project) only because no one has yet
> started working on that issue. 
It would have taken some of edges of my writing, if I heard that sooner.
Good, some projects are saying that using version numbers << 1
(but 3 may come from a natural development and is giving a by far better 
impression than 0.991 ;-) )

> You seem to have expecience and also 
> (the most important thing) seem to know what you want.  Would you like
> to contribute?  Or maybe fork an experimental devel branch of KPA to
> show us what you mean.

That's a nice and very interesting invoice.
Looks as if it would take some time to say "no" ;-(
Of course, only a clear "no" will be possible
(a 2000 scans of old negatives and photos taken, they had to wait in my 
archives for 7 to 17 years, some were gone in the meanwhile including all 
older relatives, which could have given a better understanding; after every 
scan following 20min Gimp in the mean; done a 20% of the first try of a 
discriptions; my own archive including 30000 diapositives is waiting for 
scan; some own ideas, only interrupted 'for some weeks' by tiny external 
events, are asleeping a long, long dreamless sleep).
First the old photos. Then the dia archiv. Then one of the waiting projects - 
buried or finished - maybe after it :-(

In the summer term I'm leading a 10 students interested in the writing of 
firefox addons. I'll try to interest some of them in working out a demo 
routine on 'editing index.xml based on DOM2'.
In all but hardly probable cases the result will not be of interest for you.

Is there any downloadable documentation (interface descriptions, standards, 
guides, ...) for K like the one belonging to Mozilla, which could be used to 
teach a student group next summer term (eventually in the winter term) or is 
that rather loosely organized?
(To come to a success in the term of such a course there should exist rather 
good desciptions - if there are none, forget it ...)