[Digikam-devel] digiKam on WinXP

[Mikolaj Machowski]

Hello,

Today installed digiKam on WinXP. Used KDE 4.1.2 and digiKam 0.10-beta5

Quite old so there is probably no sense to open bugs but some remarks
- don't know if they are still valid.

1. Definitely feels lack of file browser. Due to nature of Windows it is
   hard to quickly get to directory and check what you need. For this
   purpose you would have to import whole directories and choose images
   from Camera UI. Very awkward solution.
2. Some widgets don't use themes coloring: notably scrollbars and
   elements of panels (especially visible in Metadata and Colors panel).
3. This is probably more general. When creating first collection in
   existing directory with many images first start up is veeery long
   (this probably applies also to Linux version). More explicit
   information about time needed to scan images, and/or progressbar
   could overcome user anxiety.
4. Something is broken with paths to database. digiKam is losing track
   of database location and sets %PATH% to something like:

       C:\%HOME%\My Documents\My Pictures\C:\%HOME%\My Documents\My
       Pictures\C:\%HOME%\My Documents\My Pictures 

   (%HOME% expanded). And it is impossible to modify this. You have to
   close digiKam, remove database file and start from scratch. Looks
   like it sticks only when you put db in the same dir as first
   collection.

m.