[Digikam-users] Import images filter

[Renchi Raju]

On 8/22/05, Joern Ahrens <joern.ahrens at kdemail.net> wrote:
> 
> You don't need to edit digikamrc.
> Settings->Configure digikam->Mime types
> Add " *avi" to the first edit field "Image Files"

You most probably don't want to do that. Adding *.avi to the image
file filters section will cause digikam to think that any avi file is
a _image_ file and clicking on it will try to open it in the image
viewer instead of your default media player. So even though it will
work now for importing files, it will break other things.

Now, coming back to the original question: Ideally, the file import
dialog should add the video extensions as well to the filter field.
but the kde standard file dialog becomes very wide (potentially wider
than your desktop) when you add all the file filters (image, raw and
video). Since this would have been a bigger issue than being able to
import files from filesystem, i left out the video and raw file
filters from the file dialog. There is a bug report about this here:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94185

I'm still trying to find a good enough solution for this. 

For now, two ways of importing files: a) edit the filter line in the
file dialog everytime you want to import files b) use konqueror and
drag and drop these files into digikam

renchi