[Digikam-devel] [Bug 188959] New: On first use, digiKam should not scan for images without user confirmation

[Syam]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188959

           Summary: On first use, digiKam should not scan for images
                    without user confirmation
           Product: digikam
           Version: 0.10.0-rc1
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: get.sonic at gmail.com


Version:           0.10.0-rc1 (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

When I start digiKam for the first time, It asks for images and database
directories, both set to 'home' by default.
I have symbolic links to my partitions (containing lots of images) in my home
diretory.
digiKam gives no indication that it's going to scan my disks and after I click
OK, it takes forever to finish the scan - with just the splash screen being
displayed, and no (obvious) way of aborting the scan. I had to kill the
application forcefully.

What's worse is that this happens all over again the next time I start digiKam.
Since the directory info is already logged, there's no way to stop it, except
to delete the files in ~/.kde/share/config/digiKam. For an average user who
doesn't know this, digiKam is pretty hard to use.

This is what I suggest
1. After the initial directory configuration, ask the user if he/she wants to
scan the disks with warning about the time taken (this is pretty standard
everywhere, isn't it?)
2. OR - avoid the full directory scan. Ask the user to select directories to
scan later (much like adding directories to Amarok collection).

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