[digiKam-users] CLI options?

[Remco Viëtor]

On mardi 18 décembre 2018 14:18:00 CET Sky Diver wrote:
> Remco Viëtor wrote:
> > Have you tried "digikam --help" (that's more or less a de facto standard
> > under linux)
> 
> Not really.
> Coming from Windows I'm not used to UI apps having a "--help" CLI
> option (let alone additional CLI options).
> My bad, I guess.
> (*) Wouldn't mind seeing some CLI Options reference on the website though.
> 
> > You do realise that the "beta" in that version means "not suitable for
> > production"? So not much reason to add a command line option just for the
> > testing phase.
> > 
> > But yes, there is an option "--database-directory", though it refers to
> > SQLite (only?). There is also an option to specify the configuration file
> > to use, that could also be useful.
> 
> In case I didn't explain clearly, my point is to duplicate my (SQLite)
> production DB to a tmp dir and run the beta version against that dir.
> By specifying the dir from CLI, I can skip all the DB switching back and
> forth. I'll check if the configuration file is also required in order to
> ensure full separation between production and test envs.
> 
You didn't specify that is was a SQlite database, hence the extra remark.
And for the config file, I was thinking of perhaps using a different theme for 
the 6.0.0beta, to distinguish it clearly from the production version.

Remco