Digikam participation in KDE's Google Code-In?

Hello Digikam developers and users,

I wanted to let you know a potential opportunity to leverage external resources to improve Digikam.  This might be useful with Digikam 2.0 on the horizon. It's worth a look.

Vivek

From http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2010/11/05/google-code-in-kde-is-in/

Google Code-in – KDE is in!

KDE has been chosen as one of 20 organisations to mentor students for Google Code-in this year. Wohoooooo. We’re looking forward to working with a bunch of 13 to 18 year olds Let’s see how they’ll rock our world. And the most awesome thing: It’s not just about code this time but also documentation, outreach, quality assurance, research, training, translation and user interface.

We’ve been collecting task ideas in the wiki. These tasks need to be transfered into Melange (the webapp that is used for GSoC and Code-In) now. So if you proposed a task there I’ll email you shortly with instructions. If you do have an idea that so far is not in the wiki and you’re willing to mentor it then please email kde-soc-mentor-owner at kde.org with the details.

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2010/11/6 Vivek Prakash <[hidden email]>

Hello Digikam developers and users,

I wanted to let you know a potential opportunity to leverage external resources to improve Digikam.  This might be useful with Digikam 2.0 on the horizon. It's worth a look.

Vivek

Why not... We must talk about some taks to do in digiKam, not too complex.

The thead is open. let's go to proposals...

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Some proposals:

- updating the DigiKam handbook
- creating in depth comparisons between DigiKam and other software

Julien

Le 08/11/2010 08:53, Gilles Caulier a écrit :

>
>
> 2010/11/6 Vivek Prakash <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>>
>
>     Hello Digikam developers and users,
>
>     I wanted to let you know a potential opportunity to leverage
>     external resources to improve Digikam.  This might be useful with
>     Digikam 2.0 on the horizon. It's worth a look.
>
>     Vivek
>
>
> Why not... We must talk about some taks to do in digiKam, not too complex.
>
> The thead is open. let's go to proposals...
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
>
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For me, improved my windows install setup (currently experimental) :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/digikam1.6.0-kde4.4.exe

currently created with 7zip. This archiver can be scripted, and
applications must be created on windows desktop and menu.

Also, i would a little process to patch registry base to add digiKam
in application list from system dialog when an USB device is plugged.

Gilles Caulier

2010/11/8 Julien Narboux <[hidden email]>:

>
> Some proposals:
>
> - updating the DigiKam handbook
> - creating in depth comparisons between DigiKam and other software
>
> Julien
>
> Le 08/11/2010 08:53, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
>>
>>
>> 2010/11/6 Vivek Prakash <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>>
>>
>>     Hello Digikam developers and users,
>>
>>     I wanted to let you know a potential opportunity to leverage
>>     external resources to improve Digikam.  This might be useful with
>>     Digikam 2.0 on the horizon. It's worth a look.
>>
>>     Vivek
>>
>>
>> Why not... We must talk about some taks to do in digiKam, not too complex.
>>
>> The thead is open. let's go to proposals...
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>>
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Is there anything they could do to assist with getting new versions of digiKam distributed to Windows users faster? Or is that too complicated, or even impossible?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilles Caulier [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Monday, 8 November 2010 7:52 PM
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional
> with the power of open source
> Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: Digikam participation in KDE's
> Google Code-In?
>
> For me, improved my windows install setup (currently experimental) :
>
> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/digikam1.6.0-kde4.4.exe
>
> currently created with 7zip. This archiver can be scripted,
> and applications must be created on windows desktop and menu.
>
> Also, i would a little process to patch registry base to add
> digiKam in application list from system dialog when an USB
> device is plugged.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2010/11/8 Julien Narboux <[hidden email]>:
> >
> > Some proposals:
> >
> > - updating the DigiKam handbook
> > - creating in depth comparisons between DigiKam and other software
> >
> > Julien
> >
> > Le 08/11/2010 08:53, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> >>
> >>
> >> 2010/11/6 Vivek Prakash <[hidden email]
> >> <mailto:[hidden email]>>
> >>
> >>     Hello Digikam developers and users,
> >>
> >>     I wanted to let you know a potential opportunity to leverage
> >>     external resources to improve Digikam.  This might be
> useful with
> >>     Digikam 2.0 on the horizon. It's worth a look.
> >>
> >>     Vivek
> >>
> >>
> >> Why not... We must talk about some taks to do in digiKam,
> not too complex.
> >>
> >> The thead is open. let's go to proposals...
> >>
> >> Gilles Caulier
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users
> >>
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2010/11/8 Peter Shute <[hidden email]>:
> Is there anything they could do to assist with getting new versions of digiKam distributed to Windows users faster? Or is that too complicated, or even impossible?

This subject is currently discussed in kde-windows ML. KDE-windows
team is resurrected by me. I posted a lots of message about the
unmaintained KDE packages for windows...

Look in this ML archive for details, especially the last post... It's
a tedious subject : how to anage a big project as to port KDE under
windows with a small team...

Gilles Caulier

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gilles Caulier [mailto:[hidden email]]
>> Sent: Monday, 8 November 2010 7:52 PM
>> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional
>> with the power of open source
>> Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: Digikam participation in KDE's
>> Google Code-In?
>>
>> For me, improved my windows install setup (currently experimental) :
>>
>> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/digikam1.6.0-kde4.4.exe
>>
>> currently created with 7zip. This archiver can be scripted,
>> and applications must be created on windows desktop and menu.
>>
>> Also, i would a little process to patch registry base to add
>> digiKam in application list from system dialog when an USB
>> device is plugged.
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> 2010/11/8 Julien Narboux <[hidden email]>:
>> >
>> > Some proposals:
>> >
>> > - updating the DigiKam handbook
>> > - creating in depth comparisons between DigiKam and other software
>> >
>> > Julien
>> >
>> > Le 08/11/2010 08:53, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 2010/11/6 Vivek Prakash <[hidden email]
>> >> <mailto:[hidden email]>>
>> >>
>> >>     Hello Digikam developers and users,
>> >>
>> >>     I wanted to let you know a potential opportunity to leverage
>> >>     external resources to improve Digikam.  This might be
>> useful with
>> >>     Digikam 2.0 on the horizon. It's worth a look.
>> >>
>> >>     Vivek
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Why not... We must talk about some taks to do in digiKam,
>> not too complex.
>> >>
>> >> The thead is open. let's go to proposals...
>> >>
>> >> Gilles Caulier
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> _______________________________________________
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>> >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users
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Gilles,

I think it is a very good idea, maybe nsis could be used instead of a
simple zip:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

It is easy to add icons to the start menu, to register the application
into windows etc...

Julien Narboux

Le 08/11/2010 09:52, Gilles Caulier a écrit :

> For me, improved my windows install setup (currently experimental) :
>
> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/digikam1.6.0-kde4.4.exe
>
> currently created with 7zip. This archiver can be scripted, and
> applications must be created on windows desktop and menu.
>
> Also, i would a little process to patch registry base to add digiKam
> in application list from system dialog when an USB device is plugged.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2010/11/8 Julien Narboux<[hidden email]>:
>    
>> Some proposals:
>>
>> - updating the DigiKam handbook
>> - creating in depth comparisons between DigiKam and other software
>>
>> Julien
>>
>> Le 08/11/2010 08:53, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
>>      
>>>
>>> 2010/11/6 Vivek Prakash<[hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>>
>>>
>>>      Hello Digikam developers and users,
>>>
>>>      I wanted to let you know a potential opportunity to leverage
>>>      external resources to improve Digikam.  This might be useful with
>>>      Digikam 2.0 on the horizon. It's worth a look.
>>>
>>>      Vivek
>>>
>>>
>>> Why not... We must talk about some taks to do in digiKam, not too complex.
>>>
>>> The thead is open. let's go to proposals...
>>>
>>> Gilles Caulier
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>        
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2010/11/8 Julien Narboux <[hidden email]>:
> Gilles,
>
> I think it is a very good idea, maybe nsis could be used instead of a
> simple zip:

It's not a simple zip. It's zip compression based on LZMA algorithm,
better than ZIP

KDE4 + digikam : ZIP : around 300 Mb
KDE4 + digikam : ZIP : around 200 Mb

See the difference (:=)))


> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page
>
> It is easy to add icons to the start menu, to register the application
> into windows etc...

It's easy ? . I take a look to sample code : I don't understand this
language... Thi sis why i used 7zip instead...

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2010/11/8 Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>:

> 2010/11/8 Julien Narboux <[hidden email]>:
>> Gilles,
>>
>> I think it is a very good idea, maybe nsis could be used instead of a
>> simple zip:
>
> It's not a simple zip. It's zip compression based on LZMA algorithm,
> better than ZIP
>
> KDE4 + digikam : ZIP : around 300 Mb
> KDE4 + digikam : ZIP : around 200 Mb

KDE4 + digikam : 7zip : around 200 Mb

I want mean (:=)))

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Yes, but a ZIP is not an installer, regardless of the algorithm used for
compression :D

With NSIS you could create all the registry values you need, and, CPack also
supports the creation of NSIS installers.

I never used CPack though, I just created NSIS script manually all the time.

Andi

On Monday 08 November 2010 11:23:29 Gilles Caulier wrote:

> 2010/11/8 Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>:
> > 2010/11/8 Julien Narboux <[hidden email]>:
> >> Gilles,
> >>
> >> I think it is a very good idea, maybe nsis could be used instead of a
> >
> >> simple zip:
> > It's not a simple zip. It's zip compression based on LZMA algorithm,
> > better than ZIP
> >
> > KDE4 + digikam : ZIP : around 300 Mb
> > KDE4 + digikam : ZIP : around 200 Mb
>
> KDE4 + digikam : 7zip : around 200 Mb
>
> I want mean (:=)))
>
> Gilles
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Le 08/11/2010 11:22, Gilles Caulier a écrit :

> 2010/11/8 Julien Narboux<[hidden email]>:
>    
>> Gilles,
>>
>> I think it is a very good idea, maybe nsis could be used instead of a
>> simple zip:
>>      
> It's not a simple zip. It's zip compression based on LZMA algorithm,
> better than ZIP
>
> KDE4 + digikam : ZIP : around 300 Mb
> KDE4 + digikam : ZIP : around 200 Mb
>
> See the difference (:=)))
>
>
>    

nsis also support LZMA see here:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Features
>> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page
>>
>> It is easy to add icons to the start menu, to register the application
>> into windows etc...
>>      
> It's easy ? . I take a look to sample code : I don't understand this
> language... Thi sis why i used 7zip instead...
>
>    

maybe not that easy to do complex things,
  but writing a script by hand that supports adding things to the
Windows registery is not that simple either.
It may depend on windows version, if the user is "root" or not...

Julien







> Gilles
>
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- Writing unit tests ;)
- Once again an automatic dust and scratch reduction approach
- A completely redesigned tagging workflow. The current integration in
the right sidebar with Marcel's improvements still isn't sufficient to
tag efficiently a lot of photos at once.
- Statistic tools. We got a lot of data, why not generate some nice
graphs and statistics from this, e.g. percentage of certain image
formats or color types, geolocation-based stuff etc.

Johannes

On 11/08/2010 09:47 AM, Julien Narboux wrote:

>
> Some proposals:
>
> - updating the DigiKam handbook
> - creating in depth comparisons between DigiKam and other software
>
> Julien
>
> Le 08/11/2010 08:53, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
>>
>>
>> 2010/11/6 Vivek Prakash <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>>
>>
>>     Hello Digikam developers and users,
>>
>>     I wanted to let you know a potential opportunity to leverage
>>     external resources to improve Digikam.  This might be useful with
>>     Digikam 2.0 on the horizon. It's worth a look.
>>
>>     Vivek
>>
>>
>> Why not... We must talk about some taks to do in digiKam, not too complex.
>>
>> The thead is open. let's go to proposals...
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>>
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2010/11/8 Johannes Wienke <[hidden email]>:
> - Writing unit tests ;)
> - Once again an automatic dust and scratch reduction approach
> - A completely redesigned tagging workflow. The current integration in
> the right sidebar with Marcel's improvements still isn't sufficient to
> tag efficiently a lot of photos at once.

The keyboard shorcuts approach is the best for that, as KMail do...

Gilles
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