[KPhotoAlbum] KPA manual

[Joe]

On 02/12/2012 06:06 AM, Miika Turkia wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have started to update the KPhotoAlbum's user manual. The manual can
> be accessed as online help or khelpcenter "page" and should become
> available in the docs.kde.org as HTML and PDF once it is acceptable.
> How to see my current changes is described below.
>
> This job is going to need quite a bit of help from others. For
> starters all the screenshots need to be re-newed with a recent version
> of KPA and KDE. I suggest that someone who is using KDE based system
> will do the screenshots so the look would be correct. (I use Gnome on
> Ubuntu.) Also the texts should be revised. If someone is willing to
> write some sections that would be great, plain text is sufficient if
> docbook format is alien to you.
>
> So far I have not made any commits on the documents but the current
> slightly updated version is viewable as HTML on
> http://www.vaarin.kalsarit.net/KPA/manual/ch01.html . Main changes so
> far are:
> - The Viewer - additions to the end -
> http://www.vaarin.kalsarit.net/KPA/manual/ch05.html
> - Generating HTML - tiny additions -
> http://www.vaarin.kalsarit.net/KPA/manual/ch07.html
> - Configuring KPhotoAlbum - additions to the beginning -
> http://www.vaarin.kalsarit.net/KPA/manual/ch10.html
>
> I am sure there are a lot of errors and outdated instructions that
> should be corrected at least in the other parts of the document. Also
> a lot of functionality is missing. However, documenting every single
> detail of KPA is not the point of this documentation. I think this
> should be good enough intro so people can use KPA effectively.
>
> Sample workflows might be useful to be added at the end. E.g. I shoot
> RAW, review and tag images on KPA, send selected images for
> development on Bibble/AfterShot and generate jpegs to the Picture
> hierarchy. Once this is done I check through the images and make final
> selection before exporting to static HTML pages for the boredom of my
> friends and colleagues.
>
> So would this kind of section be useful with two or three different
> work-flows described? Volunteers to write about their work-flow?
> Anyone willing to reserve specific sections for writing/updating? Screenshots?
>
> miika
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I started the recent discussion on the list about work flows and learned 
a lot from the responses. Just the last little discussion of what tokens 
were good for has made my life a whole lot easier. So, yes, covering 
this is important - not just at the overview level you describe above, 
but also the "how do you do it in KPhotoAlbum" part.

Joe