[Digikam-devel] [Bug 137694] Allow album pictures to be stored on network devices

[Fabien]

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------- Additional Comments From fabien.ubuntu gmail com  2007-03-12 12:54 -------
Just a reference to what I proposed on the devel mailing list...

Another bko entry, which is, imho, related to this one :
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107871#c6


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I suggest to add 2 command-line options to start digikam.

* -f to to specify the full path to digikam3.db, or relative path from 
the album directory

* directory as argument => this would be the album path digikam use

Eg:

1) # digikam
would behave like now. The 1st time, it will ask for an album path

2) # digikam -f /path/to/digikam3.db
would behave like now except it will use the specific path for the 
database file

3) # digikam /path/to/my/album
digikam will use this directory as the album path, but won't override 
default album path if there's already one

4) # digikam -f /path/to/digikam3.db /path/to/my/album
would combine 2) and 3)
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This would not only be a workaround for the nfs/samba locking problem, 
but also a way to extend digiKam's usage :
some people complain that they can only use one library which stores all 
their pictures. They'd like to have a few libraries. There are also some 
  people who'd like to access pictures on a read-only media (eg DVD). 
Finally, some people would also like to open a specific directory which 
contains pictures, like you can do with other tools.
All these wishes could be mostly solved by this addon...