Outstanding work this week was done on:
First visible effect of porting to Qt4 model list view: overlays over image thumbnails. When hovering with mouse over "plate" user will see small icons for loss-less rotating of image, rating, selection and probably more in future. Icons are faded in and out with nice looking animation, also rating widget interaction was improved.
Optimizations of database queries.
Reorganization of code with moving of 3rd party libs to one place for clarity.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.digikam.org/news/2009-06-07_digikam_digest_-_2009-06-07/