[Digikam-users] Re: 1.9 or 2.0 compiled for Windows?

[Gilles Caulier]

2011/3/25 Martin Javorek <martin at javorkovi.cz>:
> I did try digikam on Windows too - with the same result. Disaster. (In version 1.7 it cannot move the photo into trash, wtf?).

Bug from KDELibs, not digiKam. In fact try to use trash from other KDE
applications (as dolphin): it doesn't work

>I'm running digikam now in virtualbox + ubuntu (running in 2GB memory space). Unfortunately, I'm using only the l>ighttable and managing features now as it looks like digikam can handle only english characters in metadata.

no. XMP support UTF-8 (It's not the case of (IPTC)

Gilles Caulier

>
> Martin
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> Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: 1.9 or 2.0 compiled for Windows?
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> I did try digikam on windows and it was a disaster, because I was fallen
> in love with digikam I have set up a dual boot system now and run dk
> 2.0.0.4 on ubuntu 10.10.
> If you say  "I keep reading of  bugs, even in the Linux versions" I
> might have contributed to that over the last few days. But actually I
> consider this version as pretty stable, I am doing heavy stuff with it
> and it does a great job, a crash sometimes but sofar never destructive,
> it seems that the data is well protected, after relaunch everyting  is
> just as it was before the crash. I feel safe with it.
> Rinus
>
> "
> Op 25-3-2011 15:42, Paul Verizzo schreef:
>> Giles, et. al., do I take it correctly that the Windows compilations
>> have taken a back seat to getting 2.0 out?  I'm very, very grateful to
>> have the 1.7 version but as you've noted (IIRC), it's pretty buggy.
>> Still, I hold great hope for the future and I love so many things about it.
>>
>> I know NOTHING about programming and significantly less what KDE is
>> about as some kind of a platform for digiKam.  Yet, I keep reading of
>> bugs, even in the LInux versions, that seem to be due to KDE.  And all
>> those kioslave.exe threads running when digiKam is in use really eats up
>> my 3GB of RAM!
>>
>> My other favorite photo editing program is xnview.  It runs on every OS
>> in use today and is stable and not a memory hog.  And, of course, no KDE.
>>
>> Thanks for listening.  I"d be interested in your thoughts.
>>
>> Paul
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