[Digikam-users] DigiKam won't open from desktop menu

[Arnd Baecker]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Charles Morel wrote:

> That did it. The DigiKam program works. Thanks a lot!!!

Great!
It would be nice if you could send that information back to the folks
of your distribution, so that they can add this to the dependencies
for digikam.


> Now I have another
> problem. I selected my camera from the list, clicked OK, a new window opened
> up which shows the name of the camera I added. The problem is that window is
> cut off at the bottom

What is your  screen size?
(Note that there is already a with on the bug tracker related to
small-screen laptops, http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168514


> and I don't know if there is a save button or not.

Me neither, as I don't use that route to get my images into digikam.
Maybe you can find the corresponding screenshot in the manual,
http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/index.html
but to me it sounds very likely, that something is cut-off ...
(You could also try to send a screen-shot, in reduced size).

> When I close that window and look at selections on the menu bar, the
> add images is grayed out, also no media is detected under Camera menu, and
> if I click on import only the Folder option is available. When I go back to
> the cameras added list, it's empty. I did it several times and it did the
> same thing. I tried to auto detect and it detected another model Canon
> camera instead of the one I own.  That one disappears from the added camera
> list too. Is there a Save button I can't see on that list of added cameras?

I leave the answer to someone who knows that interface ... ;-)

Best, Arnd