[Digikam-devel] [Bug 144200] New: Digikam won't display or import thumbnails

[Stan Senuta Jr.]

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           Summary: Digikam won't display or import thumbnails
           Product: digikam
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: ssenuta dialup cc


Version:           0,80 (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc-4.0.1 
OS:                Linux

Digikam won't display or import thumbnails on my system. I can download pictures from the camera but the only way I can be sure the download was successful is to use Digikam's Album menu & open the album in konqueror. 

Here is the error message I get if I try to import an existing album:

	Can't start process. Unable to create io_slave:
	Klauncher said: unknown protocol digikamalbums

I am pretty sure this happens because I have kde-3.5.6 installed in my home directory. If I could find a digikam.rpm file that was relocatable I'd try to install it to ~/home/kde-3.5.6/bin instead of the default /usr/bin. Maybe digikam isn't telling kde-3.5.6 about the digikamalbums protocol because it can't find the new kde. 

Digikam could be telling my inactive kde-3.4.2 in /usr/bin about its digikamalbums protocol instead of the live kde-3.5.6. I'm only guessing here because you would think the digikam installation proceedure would be smart enough to check my KDEDIRS=~/kde-3.5.6 environment entry before it installs.

Also, I discovered that if I create a kde-menu item that starts digikam as a "different" non-root user, thumbnails will be veiwable ...But then that user cannot download files from the usb camera