[Digikam-users] How to make a new top-level album?

[Jim MacLeod]

Chris G wrote:
> 
> I have come up with a fairly reasonable solution - launch digikam from
> a script which changes the HOME environment variable before running
> digikam.  E.g. I have:-
> 
>     #!/bin/bash
> 
>     export HOME=/home/chris/photo2
> 
>     /usr/bin/digikam
> 
> Digikam then starts up and creates a new KDE configuration hierarchy
> in /home/chris/photo2 giving me a completely independent digikam which
> still has its configuration and data in my home directory.
> 
Late thought - starting digikam from konsole with
digikam --database-directory <dir>.
haven't tried, but would that do the same as your script?