I'm moving from PICASA to DIGIKAM....but the collage feature of PICASA is missing in DIGIKAM...is there a plugin that can be linked with DIGIKAM.... ( working under Windows also !!! )
Is this the functionality described in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149936 ? If not, please provide more information what you actually want (not everyone know s picasa).
Simon, The "Collage" tool exist in digiKam 4.x, but portage to Qt5 is long test and finalize. I ported the old kipi plugin to a new digiKam core tool. Code is here : https://cgit.kde.org/kipi-plugins.git/tree/PORT.KF5/PENDING/photolayoutseditor Note : this code has nothing to do in kipi-plugins. It must be moved in a dedicated digiKam devel branch. The directory must simply copied in core/utilities/ and photolayouteditor directory add as new dir to parse to cmake rule. That all. The tool is compiled as a stand alone tool for the moment. The binary in located in the source sub dir in build area. Run it and welcome to hack. I already fixed a lots of bugs, but it's so far to be complete. Feel free to advance the job. At least the code must be moved in a digiKam branch. Gilles Caulier
reopened as wish for new tool
WARNING : with digiKam 6.0.0 and later, we will not support kipi interface anymore. All tools are now located in digiKam core as well for a plan to provide a more power-full integration with Batch Queue Manager and to be able to export a workflow on a web-service. All export tools are now available everywhere : album view, Image editor, Light table, and Showfoto. Previously, only album view from digiKam core was able to deal with export tools through libkipi. All export tools are now located here : https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/core/utilities/assistants/webservices All export tools use now a dedicated interface to communicate with the application : - digiKam (database) : https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/core/libs/database/utils/ifaces/dbinfoiface.h - Showfoto (files metadata) : https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/core/utilities/assistants/common/dmetainfoiface.h There is not direct use of digiKam database for compatibility with Showfoto. We plan later to provide a dynamic loading of export tools using a plugins mechanism. This will reduce overloading of the internal core libraries. A dedicated devel branch have been created for that, but it's not yet complete: https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/?h=development/dplugins But take a care, digiKam export tools as plugins will not be shared with another external application. API will still private and only shared between Showfoto and digiKam core. The experience with libkipi was bad and complex to maintain/extend in time. Gilles Caulier
Hi all, The older PhotoLayoutsEditor tool is now ported to Qt5 and DPlugins interface. It's actually hosted in my github account : https://github.com/cgilles/digikam-photolayouteditor I'm working on this code. It still few work to do, but it start to be usable without too much crash. Gilles Caulier