<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-08-15 22:30 GMT+02:00 Elle Stone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ellestone@ninedegreesbelow.com" target="_blank">ellestone@ninedegreesbelow.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi All,<br>
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I'm running Gentoo Linux and digiKam 5.1.0. I'm having some issues with digiKam. Here's the digiKam 5 install information from "About":<br>
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Version 5.1.0<br>
Using:<br>
KDE Frameworks 5.23.0<br>
Qt 5.6.1 (built against 5.6.1)<br>
The xcb windowing system<br>
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Here are the issues so far:<br>
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A. Despite perhaps 6 hours of steady searching and trialing, I haven't persuaded digiKam to show a proper icon in my IceWm system tray. All I see is a red X. I did manage to get dolphin, konsole, kruler, and kcalc to finally have proper icons (before my marathon search session they all had the same "red X" icon), so the search was not in vain. But I'd really like to have a proper icon for digiKam. I don't care which icon from which theme it is, as long as it's not the red X.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Certainly, The Breeze icon theme is not installed on you system. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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B. I deleted a tag labelled "People". I don't have such a tag in my tag tree. It reappeared upon starting digiKam. Tried again, same result.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. It's the rules in database schema about Face Management. There is already a report about.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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C. I don't use Album categories. I deleted all the album categories and they reappeared when I restarted digiKam. Tried again, same result.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This part have not yet checked since a while because is not too much used.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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D. This is the really serious issue: This morning I spend a couple of hours rearranging the tag tree, which was considerably in disarray. Then I closed and restarted digiKam. A tag tree that I had moved to a new location was back at it's original location. Tried again, same result - it just won't stay put.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Did you use Mysql as database ? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Here's what I want digiKam to do:<br>
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Step 1. Upon adding new files to the database, read the image files *once* to get the tags. And then *never* read the image files again.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you mean the automatic scan for new item at start up ? There is an option to disable it on Setup/Misc </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Step 2. Normally only write to the database. Never write to the image files and also don't write to XMP sidecar files.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>See Setup/Metadata configuration. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Step 3. Once I've got the tag tree back to where I'd like it to be, I want to write all the tags out to XMP sidecar files. Then I'll use exiftool to rewrite selected tags (tagslist, hierarchicalsubject, and a few other) back to the image files. Then I'll probably delete the existing digikam database and and XMP files, and start over with a clean database, hopefully with all the tags properly read in as per step 1 above.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Again, Setup/Metadata has the right option for you. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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How do I set digiKam up to do the above? Is this even possible? Because of D above, it would seem to require not shutting digiKam down until I've completely redone the tag tree?<br>
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Before starting digiKam 5 I removed all the old digiKam/showFoto settings files. Upon starting digiKam 5 I made a new sqlite database, and for some reason the database name is "digikam4db" - why is this?<br>
<br></blockquote><div>DK 4.x and 5.x use the same database file. The schema is not changed, so the filename too.</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Best,<br>
and thanking you in advance for any help,<br>
Elle<br>
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