[Digikam-users] Big problems with medium to large sized collections under Microsoft Windows

[Wolfgang Strobel]

Hello,
I am pleased that others still are struggling with the windows problem.
unfortunately still no one seems to really want to take the actual
problem.
it was certainly a lot of windows user gratifying when digikam even
with large collections of images would work perfectly. with small
pictures collections usually no one needs special management.
I hope soon of a workable solution to the reuse of under windows
digkam heard.

wolfgang

Am 06.12.2012 19:41, schrieb Brian Morrison:
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:14:11 +0000
> Andrew Goodbody wrote:
>
>> On 05/12/12 16:52, Brian Morrison wrote:
>>> On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:59:53 +0000
>>> Andrew Goodbody wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you want to build digiKam from source, I can probably tell you
>>>> the place to increase the time out.
>>>
>>> That might not be the correct way to fix it, the problem is more
>>> likely to be that the KDE libraries for Windows are not as stable
>>> as those on *nix because they are less developed and there isn't
>>> the effort available to improve the port.
>>
>> No, it is not the correct way to fix it or I would have sent a patch
>> years ago. Yes literally 2 years ago. It is however a pragmatic way
>> to get it to work right now. I know it will make it work as I tried
>> it out back in 2010. My bug report will be 3 years old in January and
>> there has been no movement on it since. Laurent said it was a big
>> issue for him and Wolfgang would also like a fix and there must be
>> many others not even on this list. I will not hold my breath while
>> waiting for someone to fix it the correct way.
>>
>> You can say 'not our problem' as much as you like but the fact is
>> that this bug is our problem as digiKam seems to be the only
>> application to be badly affected by it. It is negatively affecting
>> the users of digiKam on Windows and therefore harming the reputation
>> of digiKam as a whole.
>
> Of course it is "our" problem, for some value of our. I'd like to see
> digiKam work well on Windows too, but I have no way of fixing it myself
> as I don't know the code at all. The question is, what is digiKam doing
> differently from other KDE programs ported to Windows and is the
> resulting problem something that needs fixing in the KDE ported
> libraries or can it be fixed in digiKam itself? Until the exact reasons
> are understood and a path to getting it fixed established then no one
> seems to know what to do.
>
> I shall copy this to Ananta and see if he has anything to add, he knows
> more than I do about this.
>

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