[Digikam-devel] [Bug 117287] search albums on read only album path

[Tom Albers]

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------- Additional Comments From tomalbers kde nl  2005-11-30 12:28 -------
Achim Bohnet schreef:
>  o Allowing my younger familie members write access to my photo
>    library is definitely no good idea. (or for a group at work)

There you could use showfoto I guess. 

>  o Using a softlink was fine with 0.7.* but with 0.8 tagging
>    and searching does not work because they can't access my db
>    This is now really like Tom described,  90 % of digikam power
>    lost :(

Exactly the point. If you would agree to this patch, we agree to receive other bugreports for read-only library paths, we should accept more patches in this area and we are obliged to maintain all that code. I think we should not follow that track. But again, that is my humble opinion, I'm not the digiKam maintainer.
 
>  o keeping n copies of the images would be a brain dead solution

It would give your children the possibility to play with all those plugins we provide ;-) For excmple they can remove the red eyes of the horse you are going to buy them ;-)

> It's clear that with readonly library one can't use only readonly
> features, but in this case I only want to grant the others readonly
> so I don't care that they can't modify.

Right. So the consequence is that you can not save the search. It would be a bit weird to allow that and not save the tags temporary, so you can make a html gallery, right?

 > And digikam with readonly features is still much more powerful than
> using konqueror, gwenview or whatever.

> #2 Gilles:
> 
> It's not clear to me why this patch should influence performance of
> digikam

My neither ;-)
 
Thanks for the thoughts Achim, it will help decide what to do.