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

[Chris G]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 04:15:07PM +0000, Jim MacLeod wrote:
> 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?
> 
Doesn't appear to, but I may be confused.

-- 
Chris Green