From kde-core-devel  Fri Jan 10 12:20:12 2003
From: Michael Ritzert <kde () ritzert ! de>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:20:12 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: user interaction in kimgio plugins
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=104220132705526

Hi all,

I have a first version of JPEG2000 write support on my HD.
Now I've come across this: JPEG2000 supports different quality/compression 
settings. How can I ask the user which setting she prefers? Of course I could 
just open a dialog. But that would
a) be unprecedented - even JPEG currently doesn't ask this question
b) have to be a dialog without parent, so it could not be modal
c) propably fail in some cases where the save action is supposed to happen 
without user interaction.

So (for KDE4?) I propose to create a framework to handle this situation. 
Passing (within QImageIO) a QWidget* to use as a parent for dialogs would 
propable suffice in many situations. Adding a "bool quiet" tackles case c) 
from above.
Is this a feasible way to go?

Regards,
Michael

PS: The same problem comes up on the 'read' side of kimgio. For instance the 
PhotoCD (.pcd) format contains different image sizes in one file.
PPS: There is QImageIO::quality, but it is never set.