<chapter id="chp-typingIn">
  <title>Typing in information about your images</title>
  <para>In figure <xref linkend="fig-empty-browser-window"/> you can see
an example of the window that will greed you once you have started KimDaBa
with your own images.</para>
  
  <para>At the top of the screen you will find a menu and toolbar, as you
know from any KDE application. Below the toolbar you see the browser
window. Currently this is not containing much information, as you have not
yet specified any information about your images. In <xref
      linkend="chp-browsing"/> we will get back to the browser, but for
now, simply press the <literal>View Images</literal> item, which will show
you an overview of all your images.</para>
  
  <para>In case you have more than 100 images, KimDaBa will sort your
images into groups each of 100 images. This is simply to avoid that your
machine runs out of RAM while trying to show you all your images. The
amount of images per pages can be configured in the Options dialog (see 
<xref linkend="sec-options-general"/>)</para>
  
  <figure id="fig-empty-browser-window">
    <title>Starting KimDaBa with your own images</title>
    <mediaobject>
      <imageobject>
        <imagedata fileref="empty-browser-window.png"
          format="PNG"/>
      </imageobject>
    </mediaobject>
  </figure>
  
  <sect1 id="sect-specifying-properties-for-images">
    <title>Specifying properties for images</title>
    <para>The key feature of KimDaBa is that you can specify properties
for images. This includes who is on a given image, where is it taken,
etc. You can do this either an image at a time, or you can set 
properties for a number of images simultaneously (For example, all these
images contain the person <emphasis>Jesper</emphasis>, and is taken in
<emphasis>Copenhagen</emphasis>.)</para>

    <para>To set properties for images, select the images in question,
and go to <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>|<guisubmenu>Properties</guisubmenu>, here
you will find two items, namely <guimenuitem>One at a time</guimenuitem>,
and <guimenuitem>All simultaneously</guimenuitem>. Choosing
<guimenuitem>One at a time</guimenuitem>, you get to set properties for
each of the selected images, one at a time, while choosing <guimenuitem>All
simultaneously</guimenuitem>, you set properties for all selected
images. These two options are also available from a context menu, that you
get by right clicking the mouse in the thumbnail overview. An example of
this can be seen in <xref linkend="fig-edit-properies-menu"/>. </para> 
    
    <figure id="fig-edit-properies-menu">
      <title>Context menu for editing properties</title>
      <mediaobject>
        <imageobject>
          <imagedata fileref="edit-properies-menu.png"
            format="PNG"/>
        </imageobject>
      </mediaobject>
    </figure>
    
    <para>In <xref linkend="fig-image-config-window"/> below you can see
the window for configuring image properties. In this window you can specify
the date of the image, the label of the image <footnote><para>The label is
          initialized to the name of the file. The label is used in the
          browser, and when the images are exported to HTML
          pages</para></footnote>, a description for the image, and most important
different <emphasis>options</emphasis> for the image. In the screen dump, these options are
<literal>Persons</literal>, <literal>Loctions</literal>, and
<literal>Keywords</literal>, but as you will see in <xref
        linkend="sec-specifying-option-groups"/>, these three predefined
groups may be changed to your preferences. 
 </para>
    
    <figure id="fig-image-config-window">
      <title>Configuring image properties</title>
      <mediaobject>
        <imageobject>
          <imagedata fileref="image-config-window.png"
            format="PNG"/>
        </imageobject>
      </mediaobject>
    </figure>
    
    <para>The date, plus the options may be used for searching and
browsing for images, as we will see in <xref linkend="chp-browsing"/>, and
they will also be shown when you later view the images.</para>
    
    
    
    
    <sect2 id="sect-specifying-options">
      <title>Specifying options</title>
      <para>In <xref linkend="fig-image-config-window"/> there are three
list boxes combined with a line edits for specifying persons, locations and
keywords. These widget are a very important part of KimDaBa,
as you will use them over and over again, when specifying information about
your images.</para>
      
      <para> You can specify an option from a list box, simply by
selecting it (Select say <literal>Donna</literal> to specify that Donna is
on the given image. Alternatively you may type its name in the line edit.
When you start typing a name in the line edit, KimDaBa will look into the listbox,
and search for the first item matching what you've typed so far, and fill
it out. Thus typing <literal>Do</literal> might be enough to find
<literal>Donna</literal>. Once you have found the item you search for,
simply press enter to select this item in the listbox. The item will now be
moved to the top of the view, so next time you need the given item it is
even easier to find.</para> 
      
      <para>The idea behind moving images to the top when they have been
selected is, that when going to, say a family party, you will get perhaps
50 images all with the same 5-10 persons. When typing in information about these
50 images you will have the 5-10 persons at the top of the listbox as soon as
you have type in their name the first time.</para>
    </sect2>
    
    
    <sect2 id="sect-specifying-properties-for-one-image-at-a-time">
      <title>Specifying properties for one image at a time</title>
      <para>When you specify properties for one image at a time, you may
still of course select a number of images, and say, <emphasis>I want to
specify properties for these images</emphasis>. In this situation, you will
find a next and previous button under the image in the topmost rightmost
corner. </para>
    </sect2>
    
    <sect2 id="sect-specifying-properties-for-all-images-simultaneously">
      <title>Specifying properties for all images simultaneously</title>
      <para>If you have several images with, say the same person, then it
might be more convenient to select those images, and specify that this
person is one all images using the <emphasis>Set properties for all
selected images</emphasis>.</para>
      
      <para>In this situation, you will not see the existing values of
each of the items. If you specify a date or description, then that value
will be set unconditionally. For options it is a bit different. In this
situation you will find that there is a check box under the list box
labeled <literal>merge</literal>. When this list box is selected, the
values you specify will be merged with the existing values for the option
in question. If on the other hand you uncheck the <literal>merge</literal>
check box, then the option will be set unconditionally.</para>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>
  
  <sect1 id="sect-changing-layout-of-the-property-window">
    <title>Changing layout of the property window</title>
    <para>It is possible to move the items of the property window
around, simply from the bar at the top of the frames, and move them arroud
- you can even make a frame into a top level window on its own.</para>
    
    <para>Once you have found a layout that matches your screen layout,
your usage of KimDaBa, etc, simply press the <literal>Options...</literal>
button, that will display a popup menu from which you can save the current
window layout.</para>
    
    <para>You may also choose to hide away a frame, if for example all
your digital camera save images in a way, so the date of the image is
preserved in the file date, then you may not need the frame with file
dates. If you later want to include that frame in your layout, then choose
the <literal>Options...</literal> button, and from there the
<literal>Show/Hide windows</literal> item. This can be see in <xref
        linkend="fig-redisplay-frames"/>.</para>
  

  <figure id="fig-redisplay-frames">
    <title>Showing previously hidden windows.</title>
    <mediaobject>
      <imageobject>
        <imagedata fileref="redisplay-frames.png" format="PNG"/>
      </imageobject>
    </mediaobject>
  </figure>
  
  </sect1>

  </chapter>


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