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

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 04:12:17PM +0100, Simon Frei wrote:
> 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.

Ah!  Now that really might be very useful, thank you.  I'd never
realised that this is what showFoto is.

-- 
Chris Green