Digikam-users Digest, Vol 150, Issue 53

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Hans Korteweg

2017-11-18 18:37 GMT+01:00 <digikam-users-request at kde.org>:

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>    1. Re: Digikam in Ubuntu 17.10 (Andrey Goreev)
>    2. Re: get rid of dtrash (Gianfranco Pancino)
>    3. Re: Thumbnails not color-managed + severely distorted shadow
>       tonality for thumbs, previews (Elle Stone)
>    4. Re: Keyboard shortcut to remove an assigned "Pick"
>       (Gilles Caulier)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 05:17:36 -0700
> From: Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
>         power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: Digikam in Ubuntu 17.10
> Message-ID: <5a1024e4.197a630a.28156.a569 at mx.google.com>
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> In synaptic make sure to install digikam5 and kipi-plugins5 (I think) .
> The "5" is important.
> As for the menu please try the latest appimage from here first:
> https://files.kde.org/digikam/Just download it, make the file executable
> and execute.You can also try to remove digikamrc file from your home
> directory and see if that helps. You will lose all your configurations so
> make sure to backup the file first.
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> -------- Original message --------From: Peter Mc Donough <
> mcd-mail-lists at gmx.net> Date: 2017-11-18  3:31 AM  (GMT-07:00) To:
> digikam-users at kde.org Subject: Re: Digikam in Ubuntu 17.10
> Am 17.11.2017 um 21:31 schrieb Gianfranco Pancino:
> > I would like to submit a question, since I did not find the item in your
> > Faq.
> > I was been using Digikam on Ubuntu 16.04. Since my upgrade to 17.10, I
> was
> > able to install Digikam by opening in Ubuntu.x org and using synaptic,
> but
> > the application is not fully functional: it lacks for exemple of the
> > extensions for exportation, and the home page  is not complete lacking
> the
> > upper bar of commands.  Would you have any suggestion? Thank you.
> Gianfranco
> >
>
>
> Did you also install kipi-plugins?
>
> cu
> Peter
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 13:52:58 +0000
> From: Gianfranco Pancino <gpancino at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
>         power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: get rid of dtrash
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> Thank You all for your advices.  So,  we have to hope that the developers
> make a Digikam version able to function cross platforms. At the present
> state it he app is not very useful. What a pity! I'm been working with
> Digikam and Darktable in tandem and it worked very well.
>
> Il Ven 17 Nov 2017, 22:42 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> ha
> scritto:
>
> > yes exactly, this is the the right reason. The portability. The original
> > KDE trash system used in previous 4.x and 3.x version is not compatible
> > with other desktops...
> >
> > Gilles
> >
> > 2017-11-15 18:34 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> I think the developers had to do the internal trash otherwise they could
> >> not make the application cross platform
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> >>
> >> -------- Original message --------
> >> From: Noeck <noeck.marburg at gmx.de>
> >> Date: 2017-11-15 10:30 AM (GMT-07:00)
> >> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> >> Subject: Re: get rid of dtrash
> >>
> >> I got also annoyed by this change. It would make more sense IMHO if the
> >> files would go to the usual trash (.local/share/Trash on my Ubuntu
> >> installation) instead, like any other program does.
> >>
> >> I'll write a bash script and a cronjob to move them if there is no
> >> better way.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Joram
> >>
> >
> >
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 09:15:23 -0500
> From: Elle Stone <ellestone at ninedegreesbelow.com>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Re: Thumbnails not color-managed + severely distorted shadow
>         tonality for thumbs, previews
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> On 11/17/2017 03:51 PM, Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
> > I have no precise opinion, but essentially thought of a user accessible
> switch
> > in the setup.
>
> That would be wonderful!
>
> > Performance must be optimized for the >>90% of users with the limited use
> > cases images in sRGB or Adobe RGB or RAWs -> no monitor profile or one
> created
> > with argyll cms / dispcal.
>
> Yes, absolutely the default settings should reflect whatever seems to be
> the most common use case.
>
> Having a user option to disable the LCMS optimizations will make digiKam
> useable for people who want to see proper tonality for linear gamma
> images. I suppose a similar option could be in showFoto? Or would the
> one switch cover both softwares?
>
> Through no fault of digiKam's, there is currently no support in digiKam
> for GIMP-2.9 XCF files - see GIMP bug report
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782244 - the time to compress
> and save an embedded png is not inconsirable, which is a factor not
> currently discussed in the bug report.
>
> So to work around the lack of support for 2.9 XCF files, I made png
> "sidecar files" for all my XCF files. This required also modifying the
> kimageformats source code to not recognize XCF files, and then compiling
> and installing the modified code, to keep digiKam from trying to read
> the XCF files and then crashing.
>
> Modifying the digiKam source code to not use the LCMS optimazations and
> then compiling and installing the modified code turned out to be very
> easy to do - the last time I tried to compile digiKam was several years
> ago and it wasn't easy, so thank you! to whoever has made compiling
> digiKam so much easier than it used to be.
>
> GIMP-2.9 has been my main image editor for painting and photography for
> the last five years, so I've accumulated a lot of GIMP 2.9 XCF files.
> DigiKam has been my DAM software since around 2007. It's a huge relief
> to finally be able to use digiKam for sorting/selecting/viewing the XCF
> "sidecar files" and for opening the actual XCF files. I'll probably keep
> using this "sidecar" approach even after there is digiKam support for
> 2.9 (or more likely 2.10) XCF files.
>
> Best,
>
> and thank you for digiKam
>
> Elle
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 18:36:36 +0100
> From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
>         power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: Keyboard shortcut to remove an assigned "Pick"
> Message-ID:
>         <CAHFG6sGv2GpRAVgGeUwGxvSCePwhPg5Qvqxp8jMCYy59CS+pEw at mail.
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> Ok perfect.
>
> I will guide you to the other mail about the technical issue to commit.
>
> Gilles
>
> 2017-11-15 16:37 GMT+01:00 <aegoreev at gmail.com>:
>
> > I will add the info to the handbook as soon as I figure out how to push
> > merges back to git.kde
> >
> > *From:* Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> > *Sent:* ‎Wednesday‎, ‎November‎ ‎15‎, ‎2017 ‎4‎:‎42‎ ‎AM
> > *To:* digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
> > power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> >
> > Here, i grouped all important keyboard shortcuts :
> >
> > https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/project/KEYSHORTCUTS
> >
> > Of course this list must be moved in documentation.
> >
> > Gilles Caulier
> >
> > 2017-11-15 12:11 GMT+01:00 Elle Stone <ellestone at ninedegreesbelow.com>:
> >
> >> This page:
> >> https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Color_Labels_and_Picks
> >>
> >> says this:
> >>
> >> To quickly remove a color label from a photo, press Ctrl + Alt + 0. The
> >> Picks feature works in a similar manner: you can assign one of three
> picks
> >> — Pending, Accepted, or Rejected — to any photo in digiKam via the
> Assign
> >> Labels -> Pick context menu, or using the default shortcuts.
> >>
> >> The documentation says that to remove an assigned color label, the
> >> keyboard shortcut is "Ctrl + Alt + 0".
> >>
> >> How does one remove an assigned Pick using the default keyboard
> >> shortcuts? The documentation doesn't list the actual keyboard shortcut
> for
> >> Picks - as far as I can tell from reading the page, it just says
> "similar
> >> manner".
> >>
> >>
> >>
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