<div dir="ltr">Hi Guys!<div><br></div><div>First Thanks to Shane, that fix for the Popups</div><div>Settings > Configure digiKam ... > Miscellaneous and change the Widget style to "Cleanlooks"</div><div>worked perfectly<br>
<div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-03-30 15:20 GMT+02:00 Gilles Caulier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" target="_blank">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2014-03-30 13:34 GMT+02:00 <a href="mailto:kaefert@gmail.com">kaefert@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:kaefert@gmail.com">kaefert@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="">> Hi there!<br>
><br>
> I'm currently trying to get started with using digikam.<br>
> My Distro is Linux Mint 16 (up-to-date) with Cinnamon 2.0.14 (so not KDE, at<br>
> least not yet)<br>
> I've installed digikam through the official Linux Mint Repos:<br>
> digiKam 3.4.0 Using KDE Development Platform 4.11.5 (package version<br>
> 4:3.4.0-1ubuntu3)<br>
> My collection holds around 380.000 Elements with a total size of around 2TB<br>
> (I'd guess about 97% of the count are pictures and the rest are video and<br>
> audio recordings)<br>
><br>
> So here's my list of issues I've run into as of yet:<br>
><br>
> 1.) The digikam-users mailing-list-archive seems to be broken.<br>
> <a href="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/20454" target="_blank">http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/20454</a><br>
> I only get empty pages without content when I click on the links like the<br>
> one above found by google. Google's cache still has some of the messages,<br>
> but thats definilty a bumper when trying to find information on digikam.<br>
><br>
> 2.) I'm currently using Linux Mint 16 with the Cinnamon Desktop, and<br>
> digikam's tooltips have a light gray text color on a yellow background for<br>
> me. Not easy to read those.<br>
<br>
</div>You must install KDEArtwork to get new color scheme for GUI. Go to<br>
Settings/Theme and change color applied to whole application.<br>
<div class=""><br>
><br>
> 3.) When I try to use "Extra -> Maintenance -> Create Thumbnails" digikam<br>
> will use incredible amounts of RAM. I've created and mounted a 200GB<br>
> swapdisk (on my SSD) which takes around 4 hours to get filled by digikam,<br>
> but even after 4 hours the progress bar remains at 0% and in the detailed<br>
> progress bar whch shows the thumbnails as they are created It will only show<br>
> around 3 thumbnails every second. So the RAM usage is not even linear to the<br>
> pictures scanned, but much higher.<br>
<br>
</div>Already fixed in next 4.0.0. Beta4 is recently plublished.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Okey, Thanks for that. Downloaded compiled and installed it.</div><div>Could create the thumbnails overnight without any problems.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Though with this latest Beta I experience a new (very annoying) bug:</div><div>I've let digikam autodetect some Faces and started tagging those. With the old 3.4 digikam release, this tagging sometimes (every 5 minutes or so) made digikam crash, then I restarted it and continued.</div>
<div>Now with the new 4.0.0. Beta4 release, something in the background crashes that makes digikam ignore every tag I change, and when I switch to another tag and back all the tags I changed are restored to their previous state. I then have to quit digikam and restart it to make it work again.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">
><br>
> ad 3.) I'm currently creating fingerprints for my collection, which seems to<br>
> work fine. It's been running for a few hours now and the progressbar is<br>
> currently at 86% and digikam is using 6.4GB of RAM. Also the thumbnails<br>
> on-the-fly creation when I open a specific folder (which seems to be called<br>
> "album" in digikam therms) works fine and quite fast (around 10 pictures per<br>
> second, depending on file size of course)<br>
<br>
</div>Same meory problem fixed here with 4.0.0. About speed, this is<br>
relevant of CPU and memory avaialble and also where you store your<br>
photo. Here i use a SSD for storage (around 250Gb of RAW + JPEG) and a<br>
backup on NAS done through the network (thanks rsync)<br>
<br>
Best<br>
<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
Gilles Caulier<br>
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