[digiKam-users] How to start a completely new and separate digikam from appimage?

[Simon Frei]

On 26/11/2019 15:55, Chris Green wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 02:51:42PM +0100, Remco Viëtor wrote:
>> On mardi 26 novembre 2019 13:06:32 CET Chris Green wrote:
>> But going back to your original problem, if you need to work on a separate and 
>> temporay collection, and you don't want to pollute your permanent database,
>> one option could be to create a separate user for work on that tree, and use 
>> Digikam from there (and possibly other programs). Fresh database and config, 
>> and not all that hard to switch users on a modern Linux (though you wouldn't 
>> want to do it every 5 minutes, either). 
>>
> Yes, I did consider doing that actually but it feels 'wrong' somehow.
> It also means I can't see both at the same time on the same desktop
> which is sometimes useful.
>
>
>> And, if all you want to do is *view* a separate tree (as you stated), perhaps 
>> Digikam isn't the best program to use (Gwenview comes to mind as an easily 
>> available option if you use KDE, and allows you to show metadata).
>>
> No, I want to tag things in a useful (and consistent) way, digikam is
> good at this.
>
digiKam comes also in a no-db variant: showFoto. For working on
something temporary you can just use that. If you then import the
temporary tree into the "regular digiKam", tags written to xmp/files
will be picked up.