[Pikture-devel] Pikture status

[Jonathan G. <jon...@so...>]

Quick status update on my end. I've basically decided to scrap the new 
classes and structure I had for the entire back-end and start over :) 
I'll work on that tomorrow. I think that's the best thing to do because 
the architecture I had designed simply didn't scale enough. I realized 
that while it did work now, it probably wouldn't in 6 months, hence the 
decision to start over.

Basically, here's what I want to do now:

The Library class will hold all your library-related data. That is to 
say, the library itself, the photos, the albums, the tags, etc. This 
info will be held in QT-collections and will have methods to 
Add/Remove/Edit them as needed. For example, the Library object will 
have a "addTag", "removeTag" and "editTag". It will also have similar 
methods for albums and photos.

All of the SQLite code will be contained in this class, so that removes 
the need for an additional DB-layer class. Once I finish this 
(tomorrow, or maybe sunday), I will work on user prefs. I've read a lot 
on this today and it looks like it will be simplish :)

Keep working on the gphoto end. Once done, we'll integrate it in 
pikture. If you want, you could start working on either shell 
integration (DCOP) or the image magik stuff.

Keep the discussion on the list please.

Jon