Version: 0.7 (using KDE 3.3.2, (3.1)) Compiler: gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-6) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.10-ck5 there is no settings menu there, and I'd love to use F to go fullscreen (like kaffeine, and I changed all apps to use F for that, if possible). and you can't change the menubar. I wanted to add a button, I love this feature everywhere in KDE... btw why develop a picture viewer too? there are already so many of them, and none of them is perfect. each has SOME good features and lacks others. if the authors would work together instead of duplicating some code for the 10th time...
done in cvs yesterday. btw, where do you see code duplication? And tell me one credible image management app which doesn't have a picture viewer.
Image Viewer is too an Image _EDITOR_ using plugins framework !!! This is the difference ! Gilles Caulier
Does the editor plugins framework could be share with other applications as you did with kipi
re: comment #3 so far only the krita developers have expressed interest in that and we haven't heard back from them after our reply.
Being ShowImg developer, I'm very insterested too in using those other plugins!!
listen, guys, it was not meant to upset anyone. I'm no coder, I don't exactly know the differences between the different viewers. but as an enduser, it seems like there are quite some image viewers in KDE... look in the file associations. I have 4 (FOUR) image viewers. each has its advantages and disadvantages, mostly because some features are just not yet in another one. I like gwennview, showimg, kview... but I can use only one at a time, and its irritating one doesn't allow for zooming (gwennview), but the one that does (showimg), can't copy or save files to a certain location (I was used to check a nice background for my desktop, rigth-click -> copy to /usr/share/wallpapers). and the creator of digikam created his own image viewer & editor... well, again, its not a bad app. but wouldn't it save time to enhance eg showimg, depend on it, and use that? Or gwennview? or cooperate with both writers, and make a common library or kpart or whatever? again, your work is great. I don't want to criticize YOUR WORK. absolutely not. but (and again, i'm an enduser, I don't know what you know about the choice) I don't understand it, it seams a bit like a waste of someone's work (not necessarily yours). anyway, thanx for the feature :D maybe I'm once gonna ask (if you continue working on the seperate viewer) to make your viewer available for general use, cuz I like it. especially the automatic adjustment of pic's :D its great! someone asked if really only photoshop had it, couldn't find it in the gimp :D Yeah, its here :D
re: comment #5 richard, lets talk on the digikam devel mailing list
re: comment #6 jos, every photo management application needs to have a image viewer/editor part. otherwise its not complete. Imagine you are using kdevelop and it tells you, btw, install emacs because we don't provide an editor of our own. having said that, it is always possible to have embeddable imageviewer parts which multiple applications can share. So what are the choices we had: a) kview part - its in kde core and any changes we would have made to it, would be available only on the next release (which are less frequent than digiKam releases). Additionally, the kview part is rather limited and slow b) showimg, gwenview - they are standalone applications and only in recent times have they started providing an embeddable part c) kuickshow - doesn't provide an embeddable part. So the choice for us was simple, develop an image viewer/editor which was fast, simple, kde-compliant and had all the features geared towards photo editing, because that's what we do. we then enhanced it with a plugin architecture, so that we can easily extend the app without rewriting stuff again. So this is our contrain, we want a viewer/editor which is newbie friendly and feature-rich for photo-editing users. And a general purpose imageviewer/editor will not cut it. Due to recent user requests, we also provide a separate imageeviewer application (showFoto) built upon the digikam's inbuilt imageviewer (they share code). it currently doesn't support the digikam plugins, but that will be fixed soon
Ok, this sounds great... I won't bother you anymore :D Good a showimg developer read this! and the digikam plugins in the imageviewer (and possible in showimg) would be cool.
I'd like to use digikam plugins too!!
Richard, About to use digiKam _IMAGE_ Plugins in showimg, please open a new specific file in bugs.kde.org. Note that digikam image plugins are plugins for digiKam image editor. Don't make a confusion with old digikam plugins relevant of digikam 0.6.x serie (now kipi plugins). If you want implemented an interface with this plugins we can try to talk about by mail or by jabber (in French (:=))) Regards Gilles Caulier