Hi Mark,
On 2013-11-08 18:36, Mark Purcell wrote:
tags 585456 wontfix
affects 585456 marble-data
quit
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:55:41 Filipus Klutiero wrote:
digikam depends on marble-data through a Depends on libmarblewidget.
marble is used for geolocation, which is not used by most people
Filipus,
I view geolocation to be a core function for digikam, so wont disable this
capability.
I don't consider geolocation a *core* function, but geolocation certainly has
great potential. I'm sorry for the brief report, I didn't mean this as a
request to disable geolocation at all.
I should say I do not own a camera. Once every year or 2, I'll install Digikam
to import photos from a relative's device. Digikam has never been lightweight,
but with recent versions, it's gotten fatter. On my not-so-bare KDE install,
installing Digikam (without disabling recommends) caused a 71 MB download and
required 231 MB more of storage.
I'm sure people who love photography find Digikam's development great, but
there may be a fair share of small users who would prefer that new features
don't *necessarily* increase storage requirements much. I would love to see
kde-standard bring digikam, but that's hard to imagine with the current
dependencies set.
Perhaps there is a way for marble-data to be reduced in size?
Mark
marble-data is now a 13 MB download which takes 23 MB uncompressed. I am neither
knowledgeable on Digikam or on Marble, but I took a quick look. marble-data contains more
stuff than I imagined. Maps, icons, sounds, and map data. If I understand correctly,
marble-data is mostly used for the Marble Virtual Globe's "Atlas map" type.
From what I saw, it looks like Digikam doesn't need marble/data/maps/. That directory is
7 MB though, not a huge gain. On the other hand, the Atlas map is very minimal. I'm not
seeing a city of 10 000, and that doesn't look at all like an exception. Therefore, the
sizeable marble-data seems to only provide a map of minimal quality. Even locating a
picture in the right city would seem difficult with the Atlas map.
Digikam offers 2 "backends" - Google Maps and Marble Virtual Globe. Marble Virtual Globe
has 2 "types", Atlas map and OpenStreetMap. I imagine that the Google Maps backend
requires connectivity, and Marble Virtual Globe's OpenStreetMap visibly does too. By default,
Digikam uses the Atlas map. I wonder how hard it would be to have Digikam keep offering Geolocation
unconditionally, but only offer the Atlas map when marble-data is installed.
--
Filipus Klutiero
http://www.philippecloutier.com
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