That’s my result of a weekend hacking in Essen. You probably don’t understand it. So I’ll add some explanation. You are looking at akonadiconsole, the debugging application of Akonadi. I’ve extended an existing resource where you can configure the filesystem path of your images. It will list all subdirectories and when clicked on a folder, it will list all images. When you click on an image, it will fetch the thumbnail of the image and show it.

That covers the most basic functionality that is needed for Digikam as far as I can tell. Of course a lot of work has to be done in Digikam to ever support Akonadi resources.

It’s just a start of a resource which shows how the Digikam and KIPI-plugin people can integrate Akonadi in their application. I know Colin Guthrie (the original author of the resource) and Luka Renko are interested in working on this more. I hope this will give them a head start, and I’m happy to assist where possible and add some code here and there.

I arrived there in the afternoon. It was nice to finally meet the people behind Digikam and the kipi-plugins. A few years ago I learned C++/Qt hacking while working on Digikam. It was a wonderful time. Since then I’ve moved on, but I’ve returned to this sprint to give a presentation about Akonadi. As Akonadi is fully type independent, it is able to be used for Digikam. It would open a nice new set of oppertunities.

For example, you could organize your images while your offline. Not only the images on your local hard disk, but also on your Facebook, Flickr or Gallery based website. As soon as you connect to the internet again, it would execute all the moves. Can make that train trip to Berlin so much more productive, right?

Another feature would be to use your image based resources to attach an image as an attachment to an email. No longer select an image from disk, but select an image from an album, as you would see them in Digikam.

I’ve not realized that at a Digikam meeting there would be a lot of people with digital camera’s around. We already decided that it looks a lot more like Digikam Next Top Model, instead of a Digikam sprint….