[Digikam-users] getting started with digikam

[Gilles Caulier]

2014-03-30 13:34 GMT+02:00 kaefert at gmail.com <kaefert at gmail.com>:
> Hi there!
>
> 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)
> 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)
>
> So here's my list of issues I've run into as of yet:
>
> 1.) The digikam-users mailing-list-archive seems to be broken.
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/20454
> 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.
>
> 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.

You must install KDEArtwork to get new color scheme for GUI. Go to
Settings/Theme and change color applied to whole application.

>
> 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.

Already fixed in next 4.0.0. Beta4 is recently plublished.

>
> 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)

Same meory problem fixed here with 4.0.0. About speed, this is
relevant of CPU and memory avaialble and also where you store your
photo. Here i use a SSD for storage (around 250Gb of RAW + JPEG) and a
backup on NAS done through the network (thanks rsync)

Best

Gilles Caulier