[Digikam-users] Re: Digikam Tutorial hard to find

[Remco Viëtor]

on Monday 21 March 2011, sleepless wrote: 
> A beautyull program but so hard to find info. In one place there is 
> outdated info, another place there is an empty Digikam.pdf, another 
> place ther is a downloadable document promised and than it turns out you 
> have to make a flickr account (why should I want to do that) another 
> document I have to pay for but whats worse I need to buy an e-reader for 
> it. This is really frustrating, even more so because I'm not so much 
> online. I love Digikam so much that I still keep trying, but I really 
> think most people turn eventualy there backs to Digikam because of this.
>   Is ther anybody who can change this situation? Is there anybody out 
> there anyway?
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Enough of us out here....
But..

Till now I got 7 messages from 'sleepless', from Friday and today.
Friday, there was 1 with a question, which was incomprehensible (for me at 
least), the others are information only, so no answer required.

Today you fired of 4 in less than 1h30, ending with a rant.... You might want 
to make sure your questions are clear and give people time to answer before 
complaining.

In addition, your questions concern topics in Digikam 2.0.0.4, which is a 
_beta_ version.
And beta versions are normally not ment for and not suited for production use, 
as there are likely to be bugs and documentation isn't necessarily available. 
In simple terms: use a beta at your own risk.

As for the rant about open source in your latest post, how much did you pay 
for your copy of Digikam? The developers receive nothing for their work, and 
still manage to deliver a good product. Another option: work on what you want 
changed (preferably in collaboration with the developers...).

Fyi: 
- the e-book you have to pay for isn't a manual for Digikam, but a collection 
of tips and tricks, which are in part available on the author's blog.
- I don't know about console scripting in 2.0beta, but 1.9 has a batch queue 
manager that allows most of the common operations on a group of images, in a 
user defined order and with user-defined parameters.

Remco