[digiKam-users] Where does digikam 6.4 keep its configuration?

[Maik Qualmann]

DigiKam 5.0.0 (Qt5) and higher expects its config file in $HOME/.config/
digikamrc

Maik

Am Montag, 25. November 2019, 21:21:26 CET schrieb Chris Green:
> I have run digikam on my system for several years now.  I have just
> done a clean install of xubuntu 19.10 and I'm trying to run the
> digikam 6.4 appimage.  It can't find its database.
> 
> I expect I can sort this out, the database will be somewhere (I still
> have my old xubuntu 19.04 system which was also running digikam 6.4).
> 
> However, while trying to find the digikam database I have discovered
> lots of (presumably from old versions) bits of digikam all over the
> place, i.e. :-
> 
>     In /home/chris/.digikam there is what looks like an old digikam
> database, digikam4.db and a couple of other files.
> 
>     There is a directory /home/chris/.local/share/digikam with a load of
>     kipi plugin files.
> 
>     There is a directory /home/chris/.local/share/kxmlgui5/digikam with
>     more kipi plugin files.
> 
>     The directory /home/chris/.kde/share/apps/digikam has kipi plugins in
>     it.
> 
>     There is a file /home/chris/.kde/share/config/digikamrc.
> 
> Am I right in thinking that all the above are left over from old
> digikam installatons and not needed by the digikam 6.4 appimage?
> 
> 
> It does seem that digikam has changed its mind quite a lot about where
> to store its configuration!
> 
> So, as a final question, where will I find the user configuration for
> the digikam 6.4 appimage?