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

[Martin Javorek]

>> 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

OK. But, what can I do with this on windows? Not much.

>>I'm running digikam now in virtualbox + ubuntu (running in 2GB memory space). 
>>Unfortunately, I'm using only the lighttable 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)

XMP is in UTF-8 (that's true), but there is no way now not to write IPTC in digikam - as digikam cannot handle national characters in IPTC. So, if I decide to use only XMP, digikam will write also broken IPTC into image. And if I view photo with different photo management programs, they mostly look first for IPTC and after for XMP. So - broken metadata are visible. Using digikam for entering national characetrs into metadata is usable only if you want to use just digikam for managing your photos. And even if I decide to, I will still sleeping wrong as I know, that those IPTC are broken and I need delete them manually in future by script or repair by copying values from XMP.

> Gilles Caulier

Martin


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> From: "sleepless" <sleeplessregulus at hetnet.nl>
> To: "digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source" <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 4:04:51 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna
> Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: 1.9 or 2.0 compiled for Windows?
>
> 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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