[Digikam-users] getting started with digikam

[Shane Ginnane]

G'day Thomas, seems we have similar setups - and issues - as new users.
For the tooltips problem, go to Settings > Configure digiKam ... > Miscellaneous and change the Widget style to "Cleanlooks".
Not great, but readable at least.

As I am still deciding if digiKam is what I want, I only have less than 5 thousand photos - doing thumbnails *is* slow, but CPU seems to be the issue for me rather than RAM. DigiKam never seems to use more then 2 threads (I have an i7, so 4 cores hiperthreaded). There may be a tweak for this, but I haven't had the desire to chase it yet.


Cheers ....


On Sunday, 30 March 2014 9:36 PM, "kaefert at gmail.com" <kaefert at gmail.com> wrote:
 
Hi there!
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>I'm currently trying to get started with using digikam.
>My Distro is Linux Mint 16 (up-to-date) with Cinnamon 2.0.14 (so not KDE, at least not yet)
>I've installed digikam through the official Linux Mint Repos: 
>digiKam 3.4.0 Using KDE Development Platform 4.11.5 (package version 4:3.4.0-1ubuntu3)
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>My collection holds around 380.000 Elements with a total size of around 2TB (I'd guess about 97% of the count are pictures and the rest are video and audio recordings)
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>So here's my list of issues I've run into as of yet:
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>1.) The digikam-users mailing-list-archive seems to be broken. 
>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/20454
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>I only get empty pages without content when I click on the links like the one above found by google. Google's cache still has some of the messages, but thats definilty a bumper when trying to find information on digikam.
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>2.) I'm currently using Linux Mint 16 with the Cinnamon Desktop, and digikam's tooltips have a light gray text color on a yellow background for me. Not easy to read those.
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>3.) When I try to use "Extra -> Maintenance -> Create Thumbnails" digikam will use incredible amounts of RAM. I've created and mounted a 200GB swapdisk (on my SSD) which takes around 4 hours to get filled by digikam, but even after 4 hours the progress bar remains at 0% and in the detailed progress bar whch shows the thumbnails as they are created It will only show around 3 thumbnails every second. So the RAM usage is not even linear to the pictures scanned, but much higher.
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>ad 3.) I'm currently creating fingerprints for my collection, which seems to work fine. It's been running for a few hours now and the progressbar is currently at 86% and digikam is using 6.4GB of RAM. Also the thumbnails on-the-fly creation when I open a specific folder (which seems to be called "album" in digikam therms) works fine and quite fast (around 10 pictures per second, depending on file size of course)
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>So please if anybody got a comment, hint, workaround or a fix for one of my issues, please reply!
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>Kind Regards,
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>Thomas Käfer
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