[Digikam-users] Digikam workflow questions

[Mikolaj Machowski]

Dnia Wednesday 30 of April 2008, David Rolph napisał:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> Well after stumbling around in the wilderness for a while, I discovered
> Digikam today and I am incredibly excited.  It seems to be exactly what
> I am looking for in a photo management tool.
>
> I these workflow related questions are not too end userish for what
> seems to be quite a technical board.
>
> 1.) I shoot in JPG and RAW.  I want to be able to import my photos into
> DigiKam (no problem) and then review them (no problem) and then delete
> the ones that I don't like (no problem).  But I would like to have the
> raw file (in my case a NEF) deleted together with the jpg file.  As it
> is now I must separately seek out the NEF with the same name to delete
> it.  I would think this is a pretty standard workflow.  Is there a way
> to automate this or work differently to how I do?

This is on todo-list. Please visit

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126149

Vote and add your comments.

> 2.) I use Smugmug to host my photos.  They have a number of methods to
> upload photos.  I quite understand that its a bit too early to expect an
> interface to the smugmug API at this time.  But Smugmug does support a
> drag and drop interface.  If I tag my photos destined for smugmug then I
> can easily show them all on the one page and select them all.  I can
> even drag them around in the Digikam interface, but they are not
> dragable to the Smugmug java upload interface within their upload page. 
> The best way I can find to do it is to hunt them down in Konqueror and
> drag them over one at a time which seems like a shame considering how
> close I am.

For me also drag'n'drop from Konq doesn't work.

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