I'm closing this issue for now because from my point of view the core issue seems to be sufficiently dealt with.

We now have a new website for kphotoalbum.org. Closing this task :)

That's not too bad! Needs a bit of work, but I think it's a solid foundation. I'll hand this over to VDG's icon design pros now. :)

@ognarb, @simonkr: Thanks for the infos!
If you're busy with other stuff, I can relate. Don't feel sorry, I'm grateful that you help us out ;-)

Hello @ognarb and @johanneszarl !. Sry, that i stoped working on the KPhotoAlbum Website!. But i didnt have much time because i'm in education (I'm 18). I think i need nothing @johanneszarl

@johanneszarl I think its almost the new website is almost done, I just need to fix one bug in the theme. Not sure I can finish it before the end of next week. Sorry for the delay, I'am quite busy with life and other KDE related stuff :(

@simonkr: Just checking in on this - is there anything that you need from us?

This issue is already being dealt with in T11335...

I've improved the texts a bit (see merge request), removing some paragraphs as I saw fit.

In T11335#195599, @ognarb wrote:

For the news page, the content can be extracted and converted in markdown with pandoc. Do you know where I can find the source of the current website?

It's on KDE's svn server: svn+ssh://svn@svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/www/sites/kphotoalbum

Apart from that, I currently have no idea (yet) how that Jekyll thingy works … but probably, the existing PHP code of the news page could be used here?!

Unsplash is not okay :(

The KPA demo database could also be used, to be accessed via kphotoalbum --demo. The images are also a bit dated, but I think we won't have a copyright problem with it.

@ognarb Okay.

In T11335#195580, @simonkr wrote:

@ognarb Anyway it would be great, to get some help whit the Screenshots.

And how could i write this in the Template?. Is there a Bootstrap class for the same layout as on the site?: https://www.kphotoalbum.org/documentation/3minutetour/

@tleupold Okay. But i reeaalllyyy have no idea, how i can convert the news site...

I never used KPhotoAlbum, but it looks like very similar to Gwenview. You can view a images in KPA and Gwenview.

Like you can view files with LibreOffice Writer's "open" dialog and Dolphin.

It's very nice that somebody volunteers to rework the site. It's definitely dated. I cared about it the last few years, but I only worked on it under the hood and never touched the design … the most important thing is the News section I think where we announce releases etc. The "Getting involved" part is nice when it comes to the active and former developers, but I don't know if we need the rest here. Perhaps, one should simply advice somebody who wants to join us (a rare case ;-) to log in on our Freenode channel and simply talk with (one of) us. Same for "Testimonials", I'm not sure if we need this. As of "Documentation", I think the only really relevant thing is the "3 Minute Tour" to show what we have/can do, but it definitely needs a makeover. The rest can probably be linked, but the wiki stuff on KDE's servers is most probably also a bit out of date (we simply lack the manpower …)

In T11335#195587, @tleupold wrote:

@KonqiDragon: Seems like you never used KPA (or thought about what you're writing here). It's not "old", it's actively developed and up-to-date. And it serves a complete different purpose than Gwenview. Gwenview is a viewer, KPA is a tagging and archiving program. Don't compare apples and oranges.

Exactly! :). I see no Reason to stop supporting KPA.

@KonqiDragon: Seems like you never used KPA (or thought about what you're writing here). It's not "old", it's actively developed and up-to-date. And it serves a complete different purpose than Gwenview. Gwenview is a viewer, KPA is a tagging and archiving program. Don't compare apples and oranges.

It seems like KPhotoAlbum is made for a different usecase than gwenview. KPhotoAlbum seems more about managing and tagging photos than gwenview, which is more like a basic viewer with a few editing features.

Why do KDE need to support the old KPhotoAlbum when we have a modern Gwenview? Let's just stop supporting KPhotoAlbum.

@ognarb Anyway it would be great, to get some help whit the Screenshots.

The text will need some minor correction. For example the default categories were: Persons, Locations, and Keywords and are now Event, Places, People and Token.

@johanneszarl okay, i will do it.

@simonkr Yes, deleting it is ok from my point of view.

@johanneszarl Okay, so is it okay for you when i delete the page also from the Repository?. And whats about the 3minutetour Page?: https://www.kphotoalbum.org/documentation/3minutetour/

In T11335#195300, @simonkr wrote:

Do we need also the Videos page?: https://www.kphotoalbum.org/documentation/videos/ Because the Videos looks a bit Out of date.

Do we need also the Videos page?: https://www.kphotoalbum.org/documentation/videos/ Because the Videos looks a bit Out of date.

The changes have all been implemented.

In T10525#189747, @ltoscano wrote:

In T10525#189739, @nicolasfella wrote:

Gwenview now gained Purpose support, so from my POV KIPI can go

Did you check whether all the (relevant) features provided by the current set of KIPI Plugins are provided by Purpose plugins?

In T10525#189739, @nicolasfella wrote:

Gwenview now gained Purpose support, so from my POV KIPI can go

In T10525#189743, @johanneszarl wrote:

I'm not sure what you mean by "has no way to install them" - the general design of KIPI did not try to install anything at runtime. Plugins are usually installed like any other package via package manager and the KIPI-enabled programs use whatever plugins are available.

@ngraham: I wasn't aware that gwenview ships some KIPI plugins of its own, but here (Debian sid), the remaining KIPI export plugins are still listed in gwenview.
I'm not sure what you mean by "has no way to install them" - the general design of KIPI did not try to install anything at runtime. Plugins are usually installed like any other package via package manager and the KIPI-enabled programs use whatever plugins are available.

Gwenview now gained Purpose support, so from my POV KIPI can go

Gwenview has a way to install the Kipi plugins that's been semi-broken for years so I doubt there are many or any users left. Spectacle shows them if already installed, but has no way to install them. Don't know about KPhotoAlbum. The last I checked, many of the Kipi plugins didn't actually work. And some are now redundant, e.g. Purpose can send via email too.

Removed in 281f7a18c9bd9a05b3401826261b7d85e78bdd57

The feature has been implemented and merged to master. See 3fe442065776ad905b141d429908dfbab6928f66

Kipi is dead. Long live purpose!

To the best of my knowledge Gwenview doesn't use Purpose. I once looked into adding it since it would make sense.

Spectacle can use both purpose and kipi-plugins in its Export menu/button.

Update: there's now DB::UIDelegate which helps breaking dependencies on MainWindow/KMessageBox.

I've implemented a proof-of-concept for something similar in the branch feature/categoryDates: In this branch, the date range for categories is displayed, and it is possible to sort by start-date...

As it turned out, support for Qt < 5.8 has been dropped intentionally.

Here are my personal notes on this so that they don't get lost: