[Digikam-users] how do you select images for slide show?

[Jim MacLeod]

On Wednesday 08 May 2013 14:56:52 Eildert Groeneveld wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> after having tinkered around with a number of photo management packages
> I have now installed digikam sitting on top of my developed JPG (after
> they have gone through tagging and devloping in darktable).
> digikam very nicely picks up the EXIF data when importing these JPGs so
> that they can be nicely used for searchint etc.
> 
> Now I would like to create a number of slideshows for varying purposes,
> like Vietnam-10min or/and Vietnam-30min so that I can mayby copy the
> corresponding files to a memory stick for a slideshow presentation.
> 
> A simple and - as I find - logical way would be to create a list of
> those filenames that I have selected in digikam and have them linked to
> the original files. Sounds simple enough. In principle this would be a
> sort of 'playlist'.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have not found anything of this sort. So how do you
> people put a number of slides together for repeated use? making multiple
> copies just does not seem wise.
>
> Tred
> 
Appreciate it's nor Digikam but you could use feh, although it is a cli 
programme. You can write scripts for it with a range of display settings and 
leave Digikam completely untouched.

HTH

Jim