[digiKam-users] New to DK - questions.

[Andrew Goodbody]

It has been 6 months since this was talked about and there is now 
planning for 7.0.0 under way so I just thought I would send a small ping 
about it.

Thanks,
Andrew

On 21/03/2019 08:37, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <http://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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>     <mailto:digikam-users-bounces at kde.org>> On Behalf Of
>      > > Cleaneasy
>      > > Sent: March 19, 2019 9:00 PM
>      > > To: digikam-users at kde.org <mailto: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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