<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 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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