[digiKam-users] New to DK - questions.

[Gilles Caulier]

Maik,

This kind of patch will touch certainly a core changes and it must
preferable to introduce it in a main release as 7.0.0. Right ?

Gilles

Le jeu. 21 mars 2019 à 08:00, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Here we have a patch (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384820) for a
> different album root with different operating systems. However, I want to
> complete the patch so that each digiKam instance can set its own album
> root.
>
> Maik
>
> Am Donnerstag, 21. März 2019, 04:26:36 CET schrieb Cleaneasy:
> > Could I use a UNC for my albumroot (mountpath) rather than mounting it
> to a
> > drive letter?  (ex. \\FREENAS\media\AllPics )
> >
> > The example I was using from bugs.kde.org is:
> >
> >
> > "networkshareid:?mountpath=/mnt/test1&mountpath=/mnt/test2"
> >
> > This test works:
> >
> >     QUrl url;
> >     url.setScheme("networkshareid");
> >     url.addQueryItem("mountpath", "/mnt/test1");
> >     url.addQueryItem("mountpath", "/mnt/test2");
> >     QByteArray urlString = url.toEncoded();
> >     QUrl url2 = QUrl::fromEncoded(urlString);
> >     qDebug() << url2.toEncoded()
> >              << url.toString();
> >     qDebug() << url2.allQueryItemValues("mountpath");
> >
> > Output
> >
> > "networkshareid:?mountpath=/mnt/test1&mountpath=/mnt/test2"
> > "networkshareid:?mountpath=/mnt/test1&mountpath=/mnt/test2"
> ("/mnt/test1",
> > "/mnt/test2")
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces at kde.org> On Behalf Of Andrew
> > Goodbody Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:53 AM
> > To: digikam-users at kde.org
> > Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] New to DK - questions.
> >
> > Yes there is a way to use the same db from different OSes. See
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261277 where a patch was added to
> let
> > you specify multiple paths in albumroot so each system can have its own
> > version at the same time. However there is STILL no UI to do this and
> > everyone keeps forgetting about it and it is not mentioned anywhere!
> >
> > Also IMHO a better plan would be to move the albumroot setting into the
> rc
> > file (which is local to each system), but that suggestion is simply
> ignored
> > by the developers.
> >
> > Getting this sorted properly would be a major step forward in the
> usability
> > of digikam.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > On 20/03/2019 03:11, Andrey Goreev wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > You are correct on what digiKam DB is.
> > > You would need to add your images as Collections in Settings.
> > > I am not sure if there is way to use the same database from both linux
> > > and windows though because paths to images will be different.
> > > The only way I see is to write to sidecar files.
> > > But maybe someone else in this room already figured that out?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Andrey
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces at kde.org> On Behalf Of
> > > Cleaneasy
> > > Sent: March 19, 2019 9:00 PM
> > > To: digikam-users at kde.org
> > > Subject: [digiKam-users] New to DK - questions.
> > >
> > > Greetings!  I am really looking forward to getting more familiar with
> > > digiKam!
> > >
> > > I may have been too enthusiastic starting out. I read the article "Use
> > > digiKam with a NAS and MariaDB" and then installed the windows version
> > > and a linux version, and put a MariaDB on my freenas.  All went well
> > > after a short learning curve.  I do still have a few questions I could
> > > not find in past posts or the FAQ.
> > >
> > > Perhaps this is obvious, but where are the images stored?  Does the DB
> > > just store thumbnails, metadata and pointers to images? If so how can
> > > I use both linux and windows since the pointers stored in the DB will
> > > be different even if they point to the NAS which both machine can see,
> > > but with a slightly different paths?
> > >
> > > In any case I am sure it will be pretty important to update digiKam on
> > > each platform at the same time. Until I get this figured out I'm only
> > > using linux to add photos.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Kip
>
>
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