[Digikam-users] Several databases with digikam

[Jost Schenck]

Hi,

I've been looking in the documentation (and maybe I'm blind), but I can't find 
a way to manage different separated photo databases with digikam. The command 
line option --database-directory doesn't seem to do what I would like to: open 
a different digikam4.db, this way keeping completely separated databases with 
completely separated sets of tags etc.

To explain my motivation for doing this, there are three settings I would like 
to use digikam in:
- our photo collection, standard digikam use
- my archive of photos, illustrations, snippets and sketches that I collect so 
I can some time reuse them as material for drawing and painting
- I would like to build up a picture database of scanned magazine articles, 
using tags to sort them by different topics

Each of these usages needs a completely different classification; while creating 
a scanned document archive may not be the kind of task digikam was supposed to 
do, I couldn't yet find any other Linux software that will do the job better. 
Of course I could put everything into one huge digikam base, but it would make 
tagging very confusing because of the vast amount of different tags.

Is there a way to realize what I want to do? Would it make sense to put this 
on a wishlist? I would imagine a) a way to open a different digikam file in an 
open-Dialog in the File menu and b) a way to specify a digikam-file on the 
command line, so I could create different application launchers.

Thanks a lot for a wonderful software!
Jost

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Jost Schenck
jost at schenck.de