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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 193592] no picture dimension information anymore in dolphin
From:       Szczepan Hołyszewski  <rulatir () wp ! pl>
Date:       2010-02-14 19:35:50
Message-ID: 20100214193550.571BF337BB () immanuel ! kde ! org
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--- Comment #53 from Szczepan Hołyszewski <rulatir wp pl>  2010-02-14 20:35:34 ---
> I think that dolphin team have already stated their intention
> to fix this issue for 4.5 - this is the best possible result
> this bug report could achieve,

Which is still a very disappointing result given the age of the problem. 4.5
will arrive in half a year or worse.

> I think you should also understand, that writting a console
> program which takes picture dimesions from 10 image formats
> (which can probaly can be done in 10 minutes after reading
> imagemagic option list) is not the same as itegrating same
> thing into program of same complexity level as dolphin.

Sure. The latter should take 10 days.

> (picture data reading code should not be copy/pasted across
> each application which needs it, but should be located in single
> place somewhere in kdelibs)

Your priorities are wrong. Idealistic dreams about having your code in
gazillionth normal form are *not* an excuse for *removing features* and having
users wait before you actually bring your code into gazillionth normal form,
which is a goal you will *never* achieve.

If there are problems with the old implementation, focus on fixing them first,
and then tinker with your new super-elegant reorganization in a sandbox that
does not affect users. What's that with Dolphin being blocked while generating
thumbnails? Is a worker thread used? No? What's the original bug# for that
defect? I'm genuinely interested in trying to fix the old implementation even
if it would only be used temporarily.

> I'd also like to note that I won't do any further comments
> to this thread anymore. Instead I'll try to do my best to
> fix this in a clean manner for KDE SC 4.5...

Had you instead decided to fix this in a quick, dirty and temporary way for KDE
SC 4.0.1, then all the energy you have wasted on defending your wrong choice in
this thread could have been put to work on the final clean fix, which would
then probably be ready by now.

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