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| author | Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro@yahoo.it> | 2024-11-22 18:41:30 +0900 |
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| committer | Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro@yahoo.it> | 2024-11-22 20:55:03 +0900 |
| commit | 5bed6e4a4c916a97f8fe4d1b07f7eecf4d733b90 (patch) | |
| tree | f89cc49efc9ca1d0e1579ecb079ee7e7088ff8c8 /src/DESIGN | |
| parent | 0bfbf616d9c1fd7abb1bd02732389ab35e5f8771 (diff) | |
| download | digikam-5bed6e4a.tar.gz digikam-5bed6e4a.zip | |
Rename 'digikam' folder to 'src'
Signed-off-by: Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro@yahoo.it>
(cherry picked from commit ee0d99607c14cb63d3ebdb3a970b508949fa8219)
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diff --git a/src/DESIGN b/src/DESIGN new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9b16c519 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/DESIGN @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +This file is ment to help people get started hacking on digiKam. It will get +you up to speed on a couple of structures used. We only started to document +just before digiKam 0.8, so don't expect to much, but whenever you hack some +please update this file as well. + +scanlib +Scanlib is a library that takes care of scanning the filesystem for new files +and adds them in the database and checking for missing info in the database so +that it can be included: if date is empty, it adds the exif or modification +date (in that order) and the comment to database. If the file is not present +in the database, make sure to add the file to the database and insert the date +and comments. + +pixmapmanager +Since there are date based folders, the number of pixmaps which could be +kept in memory could potentially become too large. The pixmapmanager +maintains a fixed size cache of thumbnails and loads pixmaps on demand. + |