Comments on: Danbooru Client – a client for Danbooru based sites

By: fausto23

fausto23 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:10:33 +0000

I really good app, and good work about the tags.
Works perfect in Arch Linux with Kdemod4.3.

Greetings

By: Melissa Adkins

Melissa Adkins — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:45:11 +0000

@maniacmusician
I’m sorry to see your disappointment, with regards to Flash. I am aware of the solutions using other open technologies (CSS first fo all), but usually my clients want to see my skills not as a pure web designer but as a general graphic designer, and so this includes multimedia. Clients that do not follow standards always look for creativity, that is why I need to continue using Flash for now (although I can use CSS/HTML as well).

By: Einar

Einar — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:37:43 +0000

@maniacmusician: Turns out that there was support for queueing, so I set it up straight away, and the newest version I pushed on kde-apps.org is now using async downloads. I haven’t tested it extensively, but it works fine. Also I fixed thumbnail caching, that was completely broken in version 0.2.

With regards to Flash… I agree with the sentiment that other, better technologies would be better (I and Melissa have been discussing this to no end), but sadly even big-name websites are (ab)using that technology for their purposes, not to mention that quite a number of graphic designers code their own portfolios in Flash.

By: maniacmusician

maniacmusician — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:21:06 +0000

@Einar: It looks like you’ve found a solution to the asynchronous downloading issue. I was going to say, that even if KIO doesn’t support queueing in its framework, it doesn’t sound like it would be too difficult to code as part of the client. As long as KIO can return a value on completion of an individual download, which I would be surprised if it didn’t do.

I went to check out the website of Ms. Adkins, and was surprised to find that it was coded entirely in Flash. While Flash is certainly a viable framework in certain use cases, it’s disappointing to see it used when much more flexible and standards-compliant technologies can achieve the same end with better results.

Usually I wouldn’t mention it (or be surprised), but since she’s a graphic designer, who cites web design as a specialty, it leaves more of a bad taste. Especially for potential clients who are aware of such things and might know a thing or two about web design.

By: Einar

Einar — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:59:53 +0000

@Gómez Hyuuga

I found it on konachan.com. Here’s the link: http://konachan.com/post/show/35010/akino_momiji-autumn-sakura_musubi-suzuhira_hiro

By: Einar

Einar — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:33:27 +0000

@All – I may have found a way to make downloading asynchronous without killing some servers. It’ll require some rework of the API backend, though…

By: Gómez Hyuuga

Gómez Hyuuga — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:08:02 +0000

Good! I test it on Fedora 11 and KDE 4.3.2 and works well ^^

Good work!

P.D. The wall of the screenshot on the top are really nice! Can you share it? pls!

Greetings.

By: narutorox69

narutorox69 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:49:06 +0000

thx, now i can get my hentai 2x as fast

By: Einar

Einar — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:18:15 +0000

@ltottom

I can easily make the download asynchrononous (i.e. the UI will work) – the problem is that I (to my knowledge) can’t queue KIO operations, which means that if someone downloads 100 thumbnails, KIO will trigger 100 slaves(!) which can easily hammer a server. I just want to play nice with Danbooru sites’ admins: of course if there’s a better solution, I can implement that.

By: ltottom

ltottom — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:03:48 +0000

UI needs to be usable while downloading. once nepomuk isn’t so crappy i can give that a try.

otherwise, love it even how limited it is, very cool. thanks guy