Bug 329351

Summary:	improvements to Panorama tool: save Makefile/mk, filename format, log, batch, ...
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	julien.t43+kde
Component:	Plugin-Generic-Panorama	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	benjamin.girault, caulier.gilles
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description julien.t43+kde 2013-12-29 08:45:04 UTC

Maybe as options/checkbox on first screen or in settings:

- generate hugin files if want to process outside of digikam
- option to configure everything in one screen and run everything to the end if no errors (same as panostart/make in cli), 
- template name: prefer same manner than hugin: first file-last file-suffix, 
- set output meta (output file as some tags added automatically, eventually other meta), 
- log file (processing time, errors, cmd, ...), 
- can't batch ... 

Test on 3.4 (lubuntu 13.10/kde 4.11.3 main install).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Benjamin Girault 2014-01-04 12:11:33 UTC

I'll address your wishes one by one:

1 - Hugin project file can be saved at the end of the assistant (checkbox to save the project files) exactly for that purpose
2 - Those intermediate windows which seems useless at the moment are actually for later to check at each step that everything went fine. The workflow can be as such: configure, select images (separated to prevent the window from being big, may be removed if images are provided), preprocess (background task), check for quality of the alignment (errors in the control points), compute preview (background task), check & crop preview, final stiching (background task). The approach you are describing is not compatible with the concept of an assistant, but more of a batch process.
3 - Already implemented (see bug 324239). Available in version 3.5.0
4 - Can you be more explicit about the metadata you are looking for? I tried to keep anything relevant in the metadata, such that any metadata missing / removed should be because of Hugin...
5 - Why? There are already two sources of logs / error reports: the console, and the GUI (when there is an error). Only the processing time is missing, and I have some doubt about its usefulness. Plus, I'm against adding files to the albums that are not directly related to the pictures.
6 - This is on my TODO list, and may involve another tool / plugin.

Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2015-05-18 15:31:07 UTC

Julien,

Did you seen the previous message from Benjamin ?

Gilles Caulier

Comment 3 julien.t43+kde 2015-05-18 15:37:30 UTC

No, didn't see it. Can't really test as I have no working setup currently

My comments. Big part seems covered which is nice. Thanks for it!
On batch part/try and run, that's clearly where I would look for but I understand it depends on people.

About metadata, I believe hugin was adding some. Depending on user, let them, remove them, add user-configurable one, maybe with some of the settings used for generation.
For example to search all 360° pano.