[Digikam-users] Timeline question, plus first impressions of 0.9.3 - delighted!

[Chris G]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:31:11PM +0100, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> Am Monday 21 January 2008 schrieb elle stone:
> > 2008/1/21, elle stone <jrle1 at twcny.rr.com>:
> > > Would some knowledgeable person share - what is the difference between
> > > "Tools, Update Metadata Database" and "Album, Synchronize images with
> > > database"?
> >
> > Look here :
> >
> > http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/menu-descriptions.ht
> >ml#id2597928
> >
> > http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/menu-descriptions.ht
> >ml#id2601054
> >
> >
> >
> > Gilles, thank you very, very much.  I read the manual over twice, the
> > second time explicitly looking for information about how digikam handles
> > metadata, and somehow skipped right over exactly what I was looking for.  I
> > will read through a third time and see what else I've missed.
> >
> > Elle
> 
> As the main handbook writer I will not distract you from reading it a third 
> time :-)
> But there are faster ways. Gilles has been so intelligent to put in a lot of 
> context help into digiKam directly. If you want to have an explanation of a 
> menu item, just press shift+F1. The mouse cursor will transform into a ?. Use 
> it to go into the menu and click on an entry. Instead of the menu being 
> executed a pop-up explanation will appear.
> 
I wondered what that was supposed to do!  I read on the list a while
ago about shift+F1 providing 'localised' help but when I tried it I
only got as far as the ? appearing. I didn't realise it needed a
further action to produce something useful, I just thought that it
didn't work because I use FVWM.

-- 
Chris Green