Version: 0.7.2 (using KDE KDE 3.3.2) OS: Linux Please add a print icon to the main toolbar of Digikam. The image editor does have a print icon (maybe not enabled by default?), the main window of digikam does not.
When multiple images are selected, and the print icon on the main toobar is hit, DigiKam should print a nice index print featuring thumbnails of all selected images. When no images are selected, the print function should still be enabled and print an index print of _all_ images in the current folder.
This is cannot be done easily because kipi plugins aren't based on KXMLGUIClient (like digiKam image editor plugins are !). This is why all kipi plugins icons cannot be plugs into host application tool bar. This need substantial changes in lib KIPI API, kipi-plugins implementation, and hosts. I forward this file into kipi area. This is a possible common task to do after the first kipi-plugins 0.1.0 official release. Gilles Caulier
*** Bug 122282 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Sorry Gilles I don't get it, If you use print button on tool bar you shouldn't use kipi-plugins (at least by now) so although I agree the print plugin can be improved by some new functions (as described here) you cannot use them simply using kprinter classes, e.g. into file menu or other in digikam. I mean new way of working for kipi would mean some new management for digikam to close this bug... am i wrong?
no. we continue to use kipiplugins (:=))). The problem is more generic to be capable of plug all kipi-plugins icons on host toolbar. I mark this file like dupplicate of 122454 to reduce B.K.O file entries. Please take a look and post your comment into this file. Tahnks in advance Gilles Caulier *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122454 ***
Angelo, FWIW: When an UI of an app is cleaned up one of the first thing that get remove is the print icon. Because it's (or should be) a standard action with hotkey Ctrl-P. For this reason I would even agree to reject/close this wishlist report. Being able to a add a print icon to the tool bar, is a different story. (If this is enough for you we should retitle the wish). Question is now what should be activated via Ctrl-P or the print-icon 1) same as in image editor, which allows only to print a single image 2) Start printwizard (which is a kipi-plugins) that allows one or more images to be printed in different arragements. I assume that 2) is what most people expect and need. In this case the problem is that it's currently technically not possible to add kipi-plugins action to toolbar. And for this reason Gilles is right to mark this bug as a duplicate because Bug 122282 suffers/described the same problem. Hope this info helps a bit. Achim
Gilles, apologize, but i wasn't sure you to follow kde-imaging ml yet :) Anyway Achim, Gilles I agree with your point of view. The user perception is to have the same command (e.g. print behavior) as soon as the plugin is plugged. So probably the application should disable normal behavior (e.g. ctrl-P one) and use the kipi-printwizard instead. I don't know if that is possible by now, but as we see is a wish :) And yes, i agree to mark it as a duplicated since we can see the same desire to have kipi-plugins features addable on toolbar. In this case print wizard. Angelo
Angelo, In digiKam, we using another plugins interface based on KXMLGUIClient for Image Editor and we can plug all plugin actions into host interface (icons, shortcuts, etc.). The kipi-plugins are'nt based on KXMLGUIClient, this is the problem. I have already done a similar port in the past about the Image Editor plugins interface. I propose to do it later kipiplugins 0.1.0 final release, if all others kipi host developpers are ok (this is have an incidence into kipi host integration) Gilles Caulier
This problem is not reproducible with current PrintCreator tool from digiKam 5.7.0 core implementation. Gilles Caulier