[Digikam-users] Digikam-users Digest, Vol 33, Issue 41

[Arnd Baecker]

Hi,

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Duffields wrote:

[...]

> Sorry Gilles:
>
> As soon as I hit the "Send" button on my last message, it dawned on my how to
> get Digikam to restore its defaults....... Simply turn off the Network Storage!
> Duhhhh, it worked.  Digikam started up with the welcome screen and asked for a
> local location for the data files.

Good that it works again.
Otherwise removing the configuration file
  ~/.kde/share/config/digikamrc
should have worked as well.

> So I am running again.  Permit me to say that I have used a lot of photo
> management and editing software over the years and frustration with Microsoft
> and Abobe software registration restrictions impelled me to have a look at
> alternatives.
>
> I was not initially comfortable with giving up applications with which I was so
> familiar but after a few weeks playing with various Linux photo applications I
> believe I can do almost everything I was doing with Windows apps and some things
> appear to be even better.

(Gilles, shouldn't we add a testimonials web page for Digikam,
where we collect this type of great advertisement? ;-)

Surely there are still many things missing from digikam, but
yes, one can do quite a bit with it ...

> I expect that the new Digikam will be everything I could want when supplimented
> by GIMP.

You may also have a look at krita, because it can do editing in 16 Bit
(which digikam does as well, but krita supports layers and such ....)

> Thanks to all the developers.  I will follow its progress with great interest
> and may be able to contribute as I become more familiar and comfortable with the
> application.

Contributions of all kinds are always very welcome, in
particular experience with other software helps a lot to gain
good ideas for future improvements to digikam.
Usually the procedure is that after a question/discussion on
this mailing list ("How can I do ... with digikam?") you get pointed
to an existing wish in the bug-tracker
  (See the link at http://www.digikam.org/?q=support
   under "Reporting bugs and wishes")
or you are asked to open a new wish there (so that ideas
don't get forgotten, in contrast to mails here)

Best wishes,

Arnd