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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ok – I will step out<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> digikam-users-bounces@kde.org [mailto:digikam-users-bounces@kde.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Neil Haughton<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 02, 2013 10:39 AM<br><b>To:</b> digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Digikam-users] Greetings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>I doubt if you will be censored for having an opinion or expressing a dislike of DK, but you might be for persisting in taking a tiresomely antagonistic approach.<o:p></o:p></p><p>As far as locating images is concerned, files and folders are a low level abstraction. DK offers a higher level abstraction so that where they are actually stored in your computer is no longer relevant. I believe you can though, if you wish, show the image in its folder using a file manager from within DK, but you have to rtfm first to discover that, or ask nicely in this mailing list.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sep 2, 2013 10:40 AM, <<a href="mailto:cgw993@aol.com">cgw993@aol.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:digikam-users-bounces@kde.org">digikam-users-bounces@kde.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:digikam-users-bounces@kde.org">digikam-users-bounces@kde.org</a>]<br>On Behalf Of Gilles Caulier<br>Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 1:54 AM<br>To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power<br>of open source<br>Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Greetings<br><br>2013/9/2 <<a href="mailto:cgw993@aol.com">cgw993@aol.com</a>>:<br>> Greetings,<br>><br>><br>><br>> I just installed Digikam. My review of the software so far -<br>><br>><br>><br>> 1. Digikam opened at least 3 separate connections the internet. Why?! I<br>had<br>> to shut these connections down with my firewall. The program certainty<br>> does not make this obvious to any typical user. I think there may have<br>> been more than 3 but its late and I will search more tomorrow before I<br>> uninstall it. There can be no legitimate reason for this and this was<br>not<br>> disclosed explicitly on installation.<br><br>It's probably Geo-location feature through GoogleMaps or OpenStreetmap.<br><br>How did you check these internet connections ?<br><br>><br>><br>><br>> 2. Digikam does not make it easy to navigate drives/folders on the<br>> computer to find photos. This is the entire point of photo<br>> management software to begin with! It seems more designed to get the<br>> user to relinquish control of their current photo organization to digikam.<br><br>Really ???<br><br>><br>><br>><br>> 3. To newer users of "open source". Free software does not mean the<br>> software will not spy on you, or do things you would resent, or anything<br>> else the developer(s) maybe have wanted it to do. It does mean though<br>that<br>> the software can be changed because the source is available. A good<br>> example of free software that spies on its users is Ubunto. Users did<br>> not like this, so a modified version was made that did not spy on the<br>users.<br>> Free software makes this possible. Please see Richard Stallman's<br>> youtube video on Ubunto.<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> Profiting by spying on and data mining users data is fine I guess, as<br>> long as the user has given EXPLICIT permission to do this every time, not<br>via<br>> some vague end user license agreement that nobody reads. Digikam has not<br>> made adequate disclosure to it's users.<br>><br>><br>><br>> My Digikam review Grade - F<br><br>Who are you exactly to judge this project and this team ?<br><br>><br>><br>><br>> Requested Modifications - Do not spy on or data mine users photos or<br>> any other data, or do anything else without the users explicit and clear<br>> consent! Allow users to easily navigate their own photos. If spying on<br>> the users must be a feature, THEN DISLCOSE IT CLEARLY!<br>><br><br>I will not review this review anymore, from somebody who don't want to learn<br>how work the software, and write a mess and a dummy analysis of a long time<br>open-source project...<br><br><br>Gilles Caulier<br><br><br>- I just want to organize my photos. Good to know Google is involved, of<br>course they are. Google loves "forced features", features that require a<br>great deal of work to turn off assuming it is even possible at all.<br>-I do not personally like digikams features, I am sure the "salesmen" types<br>here love the features.<br>-I was briefly a Digicam user, that is who I am. If you want to subjugate<br>and profit by stealing peoples data and spying on them, try the full<br>disclosure route first.<br>-Last note - My posts generate replies because I am right. There is never,<br>ever an excuse to allow a developer to subjugate and spy on users. I can<br>only speak for myself in that the software seems extremely unethical and<br>since I am right, I hope to be able to help the 1 or 2 people that may get<br>this by having them think about the issue instead of blindly trusting the<br>software.<br>-I wonder how many more emails I will be here before some user subjugating<br>moderator censors me.<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Digikam-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Digikam-users@kde.org">Digikam-users@kde.org</a><br><a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users" target="_blank">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>