<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-08-15 23:07 GMT+02:00 Elle Stone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ellestone@ninedegreesbelow.com" target="_blank">ellestone@ninedegreesbelow.<wbr>com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 08/15/2016 04:37 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>
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2016-08-15 22:30 GMT+02:00 Elle Stone <<a href="mailto:ellestone@ninedegreesbelow.com" target="_blank">ellestone@ninedegreesbelow.co<wbr>m</a><br></span><span>
A. Despite perhaps 6 hours of steady searching and trialing, I<br>
haven't persuaded digiKam to show a proper icon in my IceWm system<br>
tray. All I see is a red X. I did manage to get dolphin, konsole,<br>
kruler, and kcalc to finally have proper icons (before my marathon<br>
search session they all had the same "red X" icon), so the search<br>
was not in vain. But I'd really like to have a proper icon for<br>
digiKam. I don't care which icon from which theme it is, as long as<br>
it's not the red X.<br>
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Certainly, The Breeze icon theme is not installed on you system.<br>
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Yes, it is already installed (happened back at the beginning of the 6-hour marathon):<br>
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$ equery list '*breeze*'<br>
* Searching for *breeze* ...<br>
[IP-] [ ] kde-frameworks/breeze-icons-5.<wbr>23.0:5/5.23<span><br>
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B. I deleted a tag labelled "People". I don't have such a tag in my<br>
tag tree. It reappeared upon starting digiKam. Tried again, same result.<br>
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Yes. It's the rules in database schema about Face Management. There is<br>
already a report about.<br>
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OK, thanks! This is a minor issue.<span><br>
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C. I don't use Album categories. I deleted all the album categories<br>
and they reappeared when I restarted digiKam. Tried again, same result.<br>
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This part have not yet checked since a while because is not too much used.<br>
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OK. This also is a minor issue.<span><br>
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D. This is the really serious issue: This morning I spend a couple<br>
of hours rearranging the tag tree, which was considerably in<br>
disarray. Then I closed and restarted digiKam. A tag tree that I had<br>
moved to a new location was back at it's original location. Tried<br>
again, same result - it just won't stay put.<br>
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Did you use Mysql as database ?<br>
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No. I'm using sqlite-3.12.0. I don't have mysql or mariadb installed.<span><br>
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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<br>
*once* to get the tags. And then *never* read the image files again.<br>
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Do you mean the automatic scan for new item at start up ? There is an<br>
option to disable it on Setup/Misc<br>
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I do want digiKam to scan for new items. What I don't want is for digiKam to read the information from old items again and again and again. I don't want digiKam to monitor for changes in the metadata in files that are already in the database. Read once and then never read again.<span><br>
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<br></blockquote></span></blockquote><div>digiKam never do that.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Step 2. Normally only write to the database. Never write to the<br>
image files and also don't write to XMP sidecar files.<br>
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See Setup/Metadata configuration.<br>
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Well, I've already done my best to make the right configuration settings. But I'm not sure I made the right choices:<br>
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* I unchecked everyting on the Metadata Behavior tab.<br>
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* On the Rotation tab I selected Rotate by only setting a flag.<br>
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* I don't know what to do with the Advanced Configuration tab. But I made some changes to that tab and upon restarting digikam the changes were "undone".<span><br>
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Step 3. Once I've got the tag tree back to where I'd like it to be,<br>
I want to write all the tags out to XMP sidecar files. Then I'll use<br>
exiftool to rewrite selected tags (tagslist, hierarchicalsubject,<br>
and a few other) back to the image files. Then I'll probably delete<br>
the existing digikam database and and XMP files, and start over with<br>
a clean database, hopefully with all the tags properly read in as<br>
per step 1 above.<br>
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Again, Setup/Metadata has the right option for you.<br>
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And these would be?<br>
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I have a feeling that the problem might not be in the settings, but elsewhere. I ran digiKam from a terminal to see the output. The only thing that stands out are complaints about dbus:<br>
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Failed enumerating UDisks2 objects: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Di<wbr>sconnected"<br>
"Not connected to D-Bus server"<br>
Failed enumerating UDisks2 objects: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Di<wbr>sconnected"<br>
"Not connected to D-Bus server"<br>
Failed enumerating UDisks2 objects: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Di<wbr>sconnected"<br>
"Not connected to D-Bus server"<br>
Failed enumerating UDisks2 objects: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Di<wbr>sconnected"<br>
"Not connected to D-Bus server"<br>
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Could this be the issue? According to htop, "something" dbus related is running as soon as I start the IceWM desktop, but maybe something else needs to be running?<span><br>
<br></span></blockquote><div>No Dbus is a communication chanel between Linux applications. this has nothing to do with metadata.</div><div>But the error is suspect about Linux desktop stability. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>
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Before starting digiKam 5 I removed all the old digiKam/showFoto<br>
settings files. Upon starting digiKam 5 I made a new sqlite<br>
database, and for some reason the database name is "digikam4db" -<br>
why is this?<br>
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DK 4.x and 5.x use the same database file. The schema is not changed, so<br>
the filename too.<br>
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OK, thanks!<br>
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Best,<br>
Elle<br>
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