Revised goals for 0.7
the digikam-devel list has been hijacked for the kipi (kommon image plugin
interface) discussion, so i'm sending this mail to the list. after hearing
from the users, i have revised the goals for the core application for the
0.7 release:
A) Album Organization : this will be primary focus of the 0.7 release.
- nested albums (based on directory layout) (Work in Progress)
- three types of album folder views -> collections, dates,
directory layout (Work in progress)
- new custom listview (not based on qlistview) (Nearly complete)
- Support for two album libraries (one main photo library, second cd/dvd
photo library for albums archived on cd) (Work in progress)
- sqlite/xml based dual database (Work in Progress)
- Three Tags allowed for images -> keyword, person, location (Not
started)
- Virtual folders (integrated into album tree view) based on the above
tags (Not started)
- Iconview modifications to show tags (Not started)
- Tag Editor for drag and drop tag assignment (Not started)
B) Image Editor
- port to imlib2 (complete)
- mainwindow with menu and toolbar (complete)
- core functionality: rotate, flip, scale, improved crop,... (in
progress)
- plugin architecture for image editing functions (in progress)
C) Integrate camera operations into main application (no separate window)
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