[digiKam-users] New to DK - questions.

[Andrew Goodbody]

On 20/03/2019 09:27, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Le mer. 20 mars 2019 à 09:53, Andrew Goodbody <ajg02 at elfringham.co.uk 
> <mailto:ajg02 at elfringham.co.uk>> a écrit :
> 
>     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.
> 
> It's not ignored, just delayed. 6.0.0 has take age to be finalized.

I was just saying that in all the years I have been suggesting this, 
never once has any developer publicly acknowledged the suggestion let 
alone commented on it.
You do a great job and everything takes time. This was in no way a 
complaint about timescales. I fully appreciate the time taken to make 
sure a release is done right.

> 6.1.0 introduce new dplugins interface which is huge change in API and 
> the goal to stabilize code for the future is now done.

This is a great basis for further development. Your efforts will 
certainly mean that digikam can continue to grow in a sustainable way.

> Currently i work since 3 weeks about to upgrade all bundles from Qt 5.9 
> to Qt 5.11, and the side effects are enormous. I see the light anyway.

Sounds like a big job and none the more pleasant for being imposed on 
you by external changes.

> We will to be focused on database interoperability while this year.
> 
> Gilles Caulier

That will be wonderful to see the fruits of in the future. I am sorry if 
I seemed a bit grumpy in my email. I think that all the developers do an 
amazing job spending huge amounts of their time for the benefit of many 
others.

I do not say this often enough, but thank you. I am very grateful for 
all your efforts.

Andrew