[Digikam-users] getting started with digikam

[kaefert at gmail.com]

2014-03-31 7:22 GMT+02:00 kaefert at gmail.com <kaefert at gmail.com>:

> Hi Guys!
>
> First Thanks to Shane, that fix for the Popups
> Settings > Configure digiKam ... > Miscellaneous and change the Widget
> style to "Cleanlooks"
> worked perfectly
>
> 2014-03-30 15:20 GMT+02:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
>
> 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.
>
>
> Okey, Thanks for that. Downloaded compiled and installed it.
> Could create the thumbnails overnight without any problems.
>
> Though with this latest Beta I experience a new (very annoying) bug:
> I've let digikam autodetect some Faces and started tagging those. With the
> old 3.4 digikam release, this tagging sometimes (every 5 minutes or so)
> made digikam crash, then I restarted it and continued.
> Now with the new 4.0.0. Beta4 release, something in the background crashes
> that makes digikam ignore every tag I change, and when I switch to another
> tag and back all the tags I changed are restored to their previous state. I
> then have to quit digikam and restart it to make it work again.
>

I've tried to revert to digikam 3.4.0 but the bug staid the same, no
complete crashes, but after a few minutes the tag-changes I make don't find
their way into the database & files, and when I switch to another tag and
go back everything is reverted. Does somebody else expierience this bug?


>
>
>> >
>> > 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
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