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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Writing a new view mode for dolphin
From:       "Peter Penz" <peter.penz () gmx ! at>
Date:       2009-12-15 8:22:40
Message-ID: 20091215082240.67400 () gmx ! net
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Hello Ryan,

[...]
> > So before talking about technical details: Which kind of view mode do
> > you want to add?
> 
> My Mum's a professional photographer and was furious to
> find the embeded KView mode missing in KDE4. Gwenview[1]
> refuses to to deal with raw images
> and Digikams upper limit for creating databases for directories (in
> practical
> terms) is well below the total number of files she has.
> She has some other gripes about Digikiam pushing file
> management policies she doesn't like
> but I'll have to check with her about that.
> 
> Any way giving Dolphin a view for looking through large numbers
> of images that includes rotate and resizing tools seemed to be
> the least intimidating  as well as most constructive and
> interesting when I started.

In opposite to Konqueror Dolphin's aim is to focus only file management. So adding a \
separate view for image editing won't be done... What is supported by Dolphin are \
thumbnail plugins and service menus. So in your case it might be sufficient to write \
a thumbnail plugin that can deal with raw images. By adding service menus [1] \
functionality like rotate and resize can be executing with the context menu.

But from my personal point of view this task should be done in applications like \
Gwenview or Digikam ;-)

[1] http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Development/Tutorials/Creating_Konqueror_Service_Menus


> 
> [1] For some reason the Gwenview code base reminds me of
> the Aztec temple in
> the latest Idiana Jones. I'm not touching it for the moment.
> 
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