[Digikam-users] digiKam file browsing mode / using as image browser

[Jürgen Scholz]

Hello!

> What do you mean by file-browsing mode exactly ?
Oh, I totally forgot to describe this; I imagine something like:
  - Zero configuration
  - The directory-tree on the left side of the window starts at "/"
  - There is no need to store the thumbnails in a/the database
  - because of that nothing has to be scanned at startup <- this is  
important
  - one can move images around with cut'n'paste
  - basic image editing capabilities (rotate, contrast, brightness)  
are available
  - printing wizard is available

Sure I don't know if the architecture of digiKam would allow such a  
mode.


> In digiKam for KDE4, you can set more than one root album, including  
> removable and networks repositories. Each one are add to album tree  
> view on the left side of album GUI. This is not enough ?
I haven't tried KDE4 until now. But I don't think that I want multiple  
albums. The problem really is (we're using KDE3.5 with kubuntu 8.04)  
that digiKam takes ages to start up and continously asks to delete  
pictures from the database which have been moved around with another  
program or on another computer. - It's just a small thing, but the  
people here tend to dislike that.

Personally I would be able to cope with that. But I can understand  
that it's a little annoying to wait three minutes after you  
accidentially closed digiKam. That's not digiKams fault, since the NFS  
filesystem is a bit slow. ;-) But a database-less mode would fix that.

I hope I could make myself more clear.

Bye,
  juergen