[Digikam-users] digiKam Software Collection 3.4.0 is out...

[Elle Stone]

On 9/8/13, Benjamin Girault <benjamin.girault at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Elle,

> I've just downloaded the file you are mentionning and found all files
> (bootstrap.linux, boostrap.local, and CMakeLists.txt). What did you do
> exactly after downloading? I suppose you uncompressed the archive. Did
> it uncompress correctly?

Hmm, I think maybe I copied the extracted files over to another
directory before they finished extracting completely. So completely
user error. Sorry! Now all the files are as expected.

> As I said before, installing outside KDE install prefix is tricky. Can
> you start a new thread in the mailing list for that? I can help you if
> you get stuck, it's just that we may need to exchange a few more
> emails.

The next time I have a reason to test digiKam from git, may I take you
up on your kind offer at that point?

>> Also, I'd really like to install digiKam after disabling almost all of
>> the kipi plugins, along with face recognition, geo-location, and
>> versioning. Can any of these be disabled at build time?

With "make" rather than cmake usually there is a ./configure file that
allows setting of certain options. Is there something similiar with
cmake?

The only kipi plugin I actually use is import/export from/to remote
computer (which is a strange label for exporting images to another
drive on my own computer, but that's what the plugin is called). A
long time ago I built digikam without most of the kipi plugins by
deleting the individual plugin build folders. But I forget exactly
what I did and was hoping there were configurable options.

> I do not think that there is a way to prevent plugin from being built
> (except for missing depencies, but some of those plugins have none).
> However, you still can disable them in digiKam's configuration.

It seems that every time I upgrade digiKam all those plugins get
re-enabled again.

> I do not know about other digiKam features.
> Benjamin

Elle