[Digikam-users] slideshow screensaver from starred pics in digikam?

[John Stumbles]

On 07/05/12 22:42, Andreas Weigl wrote:

> My bad, I didn't use kate but konsole and vim, there I simply get a list
> of the files

Ah yes, thanks, that works for me too.

Dragging gives a file containing filespecs like
'/path/to/pix/img0001.jpg' '/path/to/pix/img0002.jpg' ... etc
They're all on one line - maybe this might run into problems with line 
length/number of arguments and you might have to use xargs?

Or you can ^C copy the selected images and paste into the console file 
which gives something like:

file:///path/to/pix/img0001.jpg
file:///path/to/pix/img0002.jpg
... etc, which might be easier to work with (e.g. you could paste that 
into STDIN to a script which would remove the 'file://' string from the 
filespec and process the rest).


>     Within KDE, you can drop the files on a folder, and you will be
>     asked if you want to copy, move or link them there.

Yes, though that gives symlinks only, not hard links. (I'm curious: why 
doesn't KDE understand hard links? It's funny that windows - which I 
think KDE is trying to be like - doesn't understand them either, even 
though NTFS has them!)

> True, works also, tho I usually do it the way I descried. This way you
> can do additional things if you want to, but for simply linking the
> files this is enough.

Unfortunately either way would be horribly tedious to do for a whole 
collection of photographs - you'd have to filter-on-stars, select-all, 
arrange window sizes and positions (if you're dragging and dropping), 
open a console and editor or start script processing STDIN (if dragging 
or copy+pasting to console) or create/navigate to destination directory 
(if dragging or copying in KDE) *for each album*!

I really want something that could pretty much run as a cron job, 
syncing my starred pictures from digikam to my slideshow directory tree, 
adding & removing directories and images according to what I've been 
rating in dk. I think I might have to look at modifying that Perl 
digitaglinktree script!

thanks all

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John Stumbles                                    http://stumbles.org.uk
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