[Digikam-users] Greetings

[Neil Haughton]

I doubt if you will be censored for having an opinion or expressing a
dislike of DK, but you might be for persisting in taking a tiresomely
antagonistic approach.

As far as locating images is concerned, files and folders are a low level
abstraction. DK offers a higher level abstraction so that where they are
actually stored in your computer is no longer relevant. I believe you can
though, if you wish, show the image in its folder using a file manager from
within DK, but you have to rtfm first to discover that, or ask nicely in
this mailing list.
On Sep 2, 2013 10:40 AM, <cgw993 at aol.com> wrote:

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: digikam-users-bounces at kde.org [mailto:digikam-users-bounces at kde.org]
> On Behalf Of Gilles Caulier
> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 1:54 AM
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power
> of open source
> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Greetings
>
> 2013/9/2  <cgw993 at aol.com>:
> > Greetings,
> >
> >
> >
> > I just installed Digikam. My review of the software so far -
> >
> >
> >
> > 1. Digikam opened at least 3 separate connections the internet. Why?!  I
> had
> > to shut these connections down with my firewall.   The program certainty
> > does not make this obvious to any typical user.   I think there may have
> > been more than 3 but its late and I will search more tomorrow before I
> > uninstall it.    There can be no legitimate reason for this and this was
> not
> > disclosed explicitly on installation.
>
> It's probably Geo-location feature through GoogleMaps or OpenStreetmap.
>
> How did you check these internet connections ?
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 2. Digikam does not make it easy to navigate drives/folders on the
> > computer to find photos.  This is the entire  point of photo
> > management software to begin with! It seems more designed to get the
> > user to relinquish control of their current photo organization to
> digikam.
>
> Really ???
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 3.  To newer users of "open source".   Free software does not mean the
> > software will not spy on you, or do things you would resent, or anything
> > else the developer(s) maybe have wanted it to do.   It does mean though
> that
> > the software can be changed because the source is available.   A good
> > example of free software that spies on its users is Ubunto.  Users did
> > not like this, so a modified version was made that did not spy on the
> users.
> > Free software makes this possible. Please see Richard Stallman's
> > youtube video on Ubunto.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Profiting by spying on and data mining users data is fine I guess, as
> > long as the user has given EXPLICIT permission to do this every time, not
> via
> > some vague end user license agreement that nobody reads.   Digikam has
> not
> > made adequate disclosure to it's users.
> >
> >
> >
> > My Digikam review Grade - F
>
> Who are you exactly to judge this project and this team ?
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Requested Modifications  - Do not spy on or data mine users photos or
> > any other data, or do anything else without the users explicit and clear
> > consent!   Allow users to easily navigate their own photos.  If spying on
> > the users must be a feature, THEN DISLCOSE IT CLEARLY!
> >
>
> I will not review this review anymore, from somebody who don't want to
> learn
> how work the software, and write a mess and a dummy analysis of a long time
> open-source project...
>
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
>
> - I just want to organize my photos.  Good to know Google is involved, of
> course they are.  Google loves "forced features", features that require a
> great deal of work to turn off assuming it is even possible at all.
> -I do not personally like digikams features, I am sure the "salesmen" types
> here love the features.
> -I was briefly a Digicam user, that is who I am.  If you want to subjugate
> and profit by stealing peoples data and spying on them, try the full
> disclosure route first.
> -Last note - My posts generate replies because I am right.  There is never,
> ever an excuse to allow a developer to subjugate and spy on users.  I can
> only speak for myself in that the software seems extremely unethical and
> since I am right, I hope to be able to help the 1 or 2 people that may get
> this by having them think about the issue instead of blindly trusting the
> software.
> -I wonder how many more emails I will be here before some user subjugating
> moderator censors me.
>
>
>
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