digikamflowplugin

Explain

This is a Digikam plugin for add more beautiful flow layout.

Screenshot

Build

This project depends these components (Fedora):

• digikam-devel
• qt5-qtbase-devel
• c++ 17
• CMake

To build and install this, please run:

git checkout https://github.com/cathaysia/digikamflowplugin.git
git submodule update --init
./bootstrap.sh
cd build
make
sudo make install/fast

Q&A

Can this plugin work in showfoto?

No, althrough this plugins be marked as a “Generic Plugin”, and it can be load by showFoto, but it cannot work this time. It’s because digikam’s API return a empty url list, so this plugins cannot load any pictures. If possible, I will fix it.

What’s the difference between “Custom Loader” with “Digikam Loader”?

Custom Loader is a image loader that wrote by me, it use QImageReader and QThreadPool to load pictures. It may has a better perference and less bugs in some scene.

Digikam Loader is a image loader that provided by digikam, the load process are controled by digikam, it can use digikam’s cache and use less CPUs.

In a word, the difference between “Custom Loader” with “Digikam Loader” is:

• If a picture big than 1920x1080, then Custom Loader will scale it to 1920x1080 for reduce the occpuation of mermory
• If this plugin closed before all pictures be loaded, “Digikam Loader” may cause digikam crash.
• “Custom Loader” will use full of your CPUs to speed up pictures’s load.
• “Digikam Loader” support more image format

Why some pictures not shown?

It a bug, please try to resize after pictures loaded.