[Digikam-users] Newbie questions

[Mikolaj Machowski]

Dnia Tuesday 30 of October 2007, samr napisał:
> Hi there,
>
> I am a new digikam user, and I am very excited by the many possibilities
> offered my digikam. Congratulation to the development team! It is very
> convenient to have such a neat program that can manage photos, edit
> them, download from a camera, etc. (I just named 3 out of the hundreds
> of functions, many of which I have not yet discovered :-) )
>
> However, despite attentive reading of the documentation, I still have
> some questions that remain unanswered, that I take the liberty to post
> here:
>
> -I know that there is no (at least not yet) possibility to archive
> albums on removable media while keeping the relevant information in the
> database. But if I understand correctly, most of the information stored
> into the database is also saved in the EXIF and IPTC fields of the file.
> Consequently, if I archive an album on a CD, and then move it back to my
> collection, the information such as comments, tags, and ratings should
> be read from the file to the database. So I shouldn't loose any
> information, right?

Right.

> -When you do nested albums, is there a setting that allows to see the
> pictures of the sub-albums when the parent album is selected? For
> example I have a top-level album named "Canada". It does not contain any
> picture, but a few sub-folders, each with the name of a photographer.
> When I am in the album view, if I select the top folder "Canada", no
> photo are listed. This is not a problem for the slide show, for there is
> a "recursive" option, but If I want to do a search for example, like
> photo in Album "Canada", with Tag "Bear", I have no picture, because
> there are no picture in the "Canada" folder, but only in its subfolder.
> So is there an option so that the albums behave like the tags?

AFAIK no.

> -Kipi plug-in related (I know this is not the best place to ask this
> question...) : I have used the gallery export plug-in to export an album
> to my online gallery 1.x. I had some encoding troubles : I have some
> accented letters in my comments, and these were messed up after the
> upload to my gallery. The problem is that I haven't found a way to set
> the encoding, neither in Digikam, nor in gallery.

Which comments? Digikam supports several of them... Digikam comments,
EXIF comments and IPTC comments. Digikam and EXIF comments support
non-ascii characters.

m.