<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>G'day Thomas, seems we have similar setups - and issues - as new users.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>For the tooltips problem, go to Settings > Configure digiKam ... > Miscellaneous and change the Widget style to "Cleanlooks".</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Not great, but readable at least.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>As I am still deciding if digiKam is what I want, I only have less than 5 thousand photos - doing thumbnails *is* slow, but CPU seems to be the issue for me rather than RAM. DigiKam never seems to use more then 2 threads (I have an i7, so 4 cores hiperthreaded). There may be a tweak for this, but I haven't had the desire to chase it yet.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Cheers ....</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, 30 March 2014 9:36 PM, "kaefert@gmail.com" <kaefert@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left:
5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv7830881293"><div dir="ltr">Hi there!<div><br></div><div>I'm currently trying to get started with using digikam.</div><div>My Distro is Linux Mint 16 (up-to-date) with Cinnamon 2.0.14 (so not KDE, at least not yet)</div><div>I've installed digikam through the official Linux Mint Repos: </div>
<div>digiKam 3.4.0 Using KDE Development Platform 4.11.5 (package version 4:3.4.0-1ubuntu3)<br></div><div>My collection holds around 380.000 Elements with a total size of around 2TB (I'd guess about 97% of the count are pictures and the rest are video and audio recordings)<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>So here's my list of issues I've run into as of yet:</div><div><br></div><div>1.) The digikam-users mailing-list-archive seems to be broken. </div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/20454">http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/20454</a><br>
</div><div>I only get empty pages without content when I click on the links like the one above found by google. Google's cache still has some of the messages, but thats definilty a bumper when trying to find information on digikam.</div>
<div><br></div><div>2.) I'm currently using Linux Mint 16 with the Cinnamon Desktop, and digikam's tooltips have a light gray text color on a yellow background for me. Not easy to read those.</div><div><br></div>
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3.) When I try to use "Extra -> Maintenance -> Create Thumbnails" digikam will use incredible amounts of RAM. I've created and mounted a 200GB swapdisk (on my SSD) which takes around 4 hours to get filled by digikam, but even after 4 hours the progress bar remains at 0% and in the detailed progress bar whch shows the thumbnails as they are created It will only show around 3 thumbnails every second. So the RAM usage is not even linear to the pictures scanned, but much higher.</div>
<div><br></div><div>ad 3.) I'm currently creating fingerprints for my collection, which seems to work fine. It's been running for a few hours now and the progressbar is currently at 86% and digikam is using 6.4GB of RAM. Also the thumbnails on-the-fly creation when I open a specific folder (which seems to be called "album" in digikam therms) works fine and quite fast (around 10 pictures per second, depending on file size of course)</div>
<div><br></div><div>So please if anybody got a comment, hint, workaround or a fix for one of my issues, please reply!</div><div><br></div><div>Kind Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Thomas Käfer</div><div><br></div><div>
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