[Digikam-users] Newbie questions

[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Monday 29 October 2007 schrieb samr:
> 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, but don't forget to turn it on in the settings menu!

> -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?
>
> -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.

Without verifying why so, I believe it is on the gallery side. I use 
gallery2.2 with KIPI, and there's problem with encoding (my system is utf-8 
and I use special characters a lot)

> I thank you very much for any bits of information!
>
> Sam
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Gerhard
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