New splash for Digikam + Studio

[Paristo]

I just noticed new elected splash for KPhoneAlbum and i started think why Digikam dont have same kind "pro" styled splash as option in settings what user could change for it self? Of course it is easy to just change splash picture but it could be much easier to add option there like K3B has for themes.

And other suggestion was that digikam needs plugin (if there's not already?) what allows user to print selected photos/albums as thumbnails to A4 or A3. This would be very nice plugin when using digikam in studio because then it is easy to just put them on the wall so you dont need use PC for it.

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[David Aldred-2]

On Thursday 28 September 2006 15:59, Paristo wrote:

> And other suggestion was that digikam needs plugin (if there's not
> already?) what allows user to print selected photos/albums as thumbnails to
> A4 or A3. This would be very nice plugin when using digikam in studio
> because then it is easy to just put them on the wall so you dont need use
> PC for it.

Select pictures in the digiKam main window, then click File -> Export -> Print
Wizard.

Incidentally, some time ago I did contribute some additional collage layouts
for the A4 paper size - anyone know what happened to them?

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[Gilles Caulier-2]

Le Jeudi 28 Septembre 2006 16:59, Paristo a écrit :
> I just noticed new elected splash for KPhoneAlbum and i started think why
> Digikam dont have same kind "pro" styled splash as option in settings what
> user could change for it self? Of course it is easy to just change splash
> picture but it could be much easier to add option there like K3B has for
> themes.

I don't understand exactly what you mean about splash. I K3b/KPhoneAlbum
splash can be changed from setup dialog ?

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[Chris Bayley]

> And other suggestion was that digikam needs plugin (if there's not
> already?) what allows user to print selected photos/albums as
> thumbnails to A4 or A3. This would be very nice plugin when using
> digikam in studio because then it is easy to just put them on the wall
> so you dont need use PC for it.
>

Yeah, right on! A decent contact sheet generator seems to be a feature
missing from just about all the linux photo apps as far as I can tell.
The last time I needed one I did it by hand using imagemagick tools.
I might even put my hand up to code a plugin at some point....

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[Peter Neubauer-3]

+1
the best I have seen so far for easy photo printing is the Canon
utility Easy-photoprint
http://www.usa.canon.com/html/consumer/epp/Easy-PhotoPrint.html

/peter

On 9/28/06, Chris Bayley <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> > And other suggestion was that digikam needs plugin (if there's not
> > already?) what allows user to print selected photos/albums as
> > thumbnails to A4 or A3. This would be very nice plugin when using
> > digikam in studio because then it is easy to just put them on the wall
> > so you dont need use PC for it.
> >
>
> Yeah, right on! A decent contact sheet generator seems to be a feature
> missing from just about all the linux photo apps as far as I can tell.
> The last time I needed one I did it by hand using imagemagick tools.
> I might even put my hand up to code a plugin at some point....
>
> ChrisB
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Dnia czwartek, 28 września 2006 21:08, Chris Bayley napisał:
> Yeah, right on! A decent contact sheet generator seems to be a feature
> missing from just about all the linux photo apps as far as I can tell.
> The last time I needed one I did it by hand using imagemagick tools.
> I might even put my hand up to code a plugin at some point....

One more point for service menu in Digikam a la Konqueror. You could
easily expand program functionality almost indefinitely without
bothering main developers.

m.

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[David Aldred-2]

On Thursday 28 September 2006 20:08, Chris Bayley wrote:
> Yeah, right on! A decent contact sheet generator seems to be a feature
> missing from just about all the linux photo apps as far as I can tell.

As a matter of interest, what do you want it to do that the Digikam Print
Wizard doesn't?

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[Chris Bayley]

NOTHING! That is trop cool!

Just goes to show I need to look around the menus a bit more!
Well coded Todd!
As a matter of interest I did a fair bit googling before my last collage
session and I turned up nothing pointing to the PrintWizard.

Oh well that's one less thing that needs adding.

L8R
: )

I best get back to compiling gutenprint for the new Canon Selphy...


David Aldred wrote:

>On Thursday 28 September 2006 20:08, Chris Bayley wrote:
>  
>
>>Yeah, right on! A decent contact sheet generator seems to be a feature
>>missing from just about all the linux photo apps as far as I can tell.
>>    
>>
>
>As a matter of interest, what do you want it to do that the Digikam Print
>Wizard doesn't?
>
>  
>

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[Peter Neubauer-3]

David,
actually, I hadn't realized that there was a wizard for this in
Digikam, very nice indeed!

Now, what I would like is:
- instead of the red rectangle for cropping pics, a full aspect ratio
crop, that even displays the cropped pics afterwards so you get an
impression what it looks like
- custom paper and image sizes

That is, using digikam 0.8.2, not sure things have changed in 0.9.0

/peter

On 9/28/06, David Aldred <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On Thursday 28 September 2006 20:08, Chris Bayley wrote:
> > Yeah, right on! A decent contact sheet generator seems to be a feature
> > missing from just about all the linux photo apps as far as I can tell.
>
> As a matter of interest, what do you want it to do that the Digikam Print
> Wizard doesn't?
>
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[David Aldred-2]

On Friday 29 September 2006 05:53, Peter Neubauer wrote:
> David,
> actually, I hadn't realized that there was a wizard for this in
> Digikam, very nice indeed!

I like it, yes!

I should make it clear I had no hand in programming it, though I did get
inside the code to work out how to add in other page layouts.

>
> Now, what I would like is:
> - instead of the red rectangle for cropping pics, a full aspect ratio
> crop, that even displays the cropped pics afterwards so you get an
> impression what it looks like

Just to check understanding (as I'm not with you on 'aspect ratio crop') - do
you mean a resizing which fits the *whole* picture into the available print
slot (rather than fitting one of the dimensions and leaving some to be
cropped out to fit the other)?  If so, I'd agree it would be a good
alternative.

> - custom paper and image sizes
>

I'd certainly agree with that - but having looked at the code it would take a
little rewriting to achieve it.  

At present, the paper sizes and layouts for images are hard-coded into the
program; I don't think it would be too difficult to make the program read a
configuration file instead.   What might be trickier is working out a
sensible GUI approach to the creation of custom paper sizes and layouts.

Is Todd reading this list at the moment?

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[Gilles Caulier-2]

Le Vendredi 29 Septembre 2006 07:04 PM, David Aldred a écrit :

> On Friday 29 September 2006 05:53, Peter Neubauer wrote:
> > David,
> > actually, I hadn't realized that there was a wizard for this in
> > Digikam, very nice indeed!
>
> I like it, yes!
>
> I should make it clear I had no hand in programming it, though I did get
> inside the code to work out how to add in other page layouts.
>
> > Now, what I would like is:
> > - instead of the red rectangle for cropping pics, a full aspect ratio
> > crop, that even displays the cropped pics afterwards so you get an
> > impression what it looks like
>
> Just to check understanding (as I'm not with you on 'aspect ratio crop') -
> do you mean a resizing which fits the *whole* picture into the available
> print slot (rather than fitting one of the dimensions and leaving some to
> be cropped out to fit the other)?  If so, I'd agree it would be a good
> alternative.
>
> > - custom paper and image sizes
>
> I'd certainly agree with that - but having looked at the code it would take
> a little rewriting to achieve it.
>
> At present, the paper sizes and layouts for images are hard-coded into the
> program; I don't think it would be too difficult to make the program read a
> configuration file instead.   What might be trickier is working out a
> sensible GUI approach to the creation of custom paper sizes and layouts.
>
> Is Todd reading this list at the moment?

If you talking about Todd Shoemakers, he don't maintain the print wizzard
kipi-plugin anymore.

A new maintainer is require to improve fix this plugin.

Note that digikam-user ML is not the right way to talking with kipi-plugin
team. You need to use the [hidden email] ML.

There is also the KDE Bugzilla entries about this plugin :

http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=kipiplugins&component=printwizard&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

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[David Aldred-2]

On Saturday 30 September 2006 18:35, Caulier Gilles wrote:
> If you talking about Todd Shoemakers, he don't maintain the print wizzard
> kipi-plugin anymore.
>
> A new maintainer is require to improve fix this plugin.
>
> Note that digikam-user ML is not the right way to talking with kipi-plugin
> team. You need to use the [hidden email] ML.

Gilles, thanks.

You know much more about how these things work than I do - I don't pretend to
be any expert in programming, but from what I remember of the code I think I
could manage to change the relevant section of the print wizard so that it
would read paper sizes and layout info from a config file.  This would at
least allow more technically minded users to create custom paper sizes and
layouts without having to recompile the whole thing!

I can, of course, compile and test any modifications on my own machine - and
I'm pretty unlikely to use any obscure libraries or anything since I don't
know what they are!

But I have no idea how any modifications would get into the 'released' code -
how do such things work?

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[Gilles Caulier-2]

Le Vendredi 29 Septembre 2006 08:18 PM, David Aldred a écrit :

> On Saturday 30 September 2006 18:35, Caulier Gilles wrote:
> > If you talking about Todd Shoemakers, he don't maintain the print wizzard
> > kipi-plugin anymore.
> >
> > A new maintainer is require to improve fix this plugin.
> >
> > Note that digikam-user ML is not the right way to talking with
> > kipi-plugin team. You need to use the [hidden email] ML.
>
> Gilles, thanks.
>
> You know much more about how these things work than I do - I don't pretend
> to be any expert in programming, but from what I remember of the code I
> think I could manage to change the relevant section of the print wizard so
> that it would read paper sizes and layout info from a config file.  This
> would at least allow more technically minded users to create custom paper
> sizes and layouts without having to recompile the whole thing!
>
> I can, of course, compile and test any modifications on my own machine -
> and I'm pretty unlikely to use any obscure libraries or anything since I
> don't know what they are!
>
> But I have no idea how any modifications would get into the 'released' code
> - how do such things work?

We aren't in the right room. Please subscribe to [hidden email]. There
are coordinator (Angelo) and other developpers from others projects.

Gilles

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[Peter Neubauer-3]

Sorry,
crossposting this, it seems better in the kde-imaging list.


Hi David,

On 9/29/06, David Aldred <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On Friday 29 September 2006 05:53, Peter Neubauer wrote:
> > David,
> > actually, I hadn't realized that there was a wizard for this in
> > Digikam, very nice indeed!
>
> I like it, yes!
>
> I should make it clear I had no hand in programming it, though I did get
> inside the code to work out how to add in other page layouts.
>
> >
> > Now, what I would like is:
> > - instead of the red rectangle for cropping pics, a full aspect ratio
> > crop, that even displays the cropped pics afterwards so you get an
> > impression what it looks like
>
> Just to check understanding (as I'm not with you on 'aspect ratio crop') - do
> you mean a resizing which fits the *whole* picture into the available print
> slot (rather than fitting one of the dimensions and leaving some to be
> cropped out to fit the other)?  If so, I'd agree it would be a good
> alternative.
>

I mean something like in the attached screenshots, that is, you pick a

picture, then get a rectangle with the specified ratio, and possibly a
golden rule grid, and then can resize and move that rectangle over the
picture to determine your target crop.  That crop is then displayed in
the next step, if you don't like it, you go back and start over. A
very nice and intuitive interface for this step in the canon product
IMHO.

Cheers

/peter

> > - custom paper and image sizes
> >
>
> I'd certainly agree with that - but having looked at the code it would take a
> little rewriting to achieve it.
>
> At present, the paper sizes and layouts for images are hard-coded into the
> program; I don't think it would be too difficult to make the program read a
> configuration file instead.   What might be trickier is working out a
> sensible GUI approach to the creation of custom paper sizes and layouts.
>
> Is Todd reading this list at the moment?
>
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