[digiKam-users] Digikam not showing non-image files in album view

[Gilles Caulier]

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Gilles Caulier



Le lun. 29 juin 2020 à 23:12, Thomas D <sdktda at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> If that is the intention, then I think it should be much easier to open a file manager (and a terminal!) on a given album. And it should preferably have a keyboard shortcut.
> Right now it is possible to rightclick on an album in the tree view and open in file manager, however, that is actually a very complex action:
> 1. Move the mouse to a tiny icon
> 2. Right click
> 3. Locate the "open in file manager" action on the list of possible actions in the right click menu
> 4. Click the Open in file manager action.
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> Den man. 29. jun. 2020 kl. 20.04 skrev Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>:
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>> That is the intention. What you see in the thumbnail view comes from the
>> database, which is created by a scan. You can open an album with a file
>> manager to see the actual content. You can also add unknown mime types, as an
>> image, video or audio file and then display them as a generic icon. But
>> digiKam will not be able to display a preview or the like.
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>> Maik
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>> Am Montag, 29. Juni 2020, 21:25:55 CEST schrieb Thomas D:
>> > Hi,
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>> > Digikam does not show any non-image files in album view nor does it seem
>> > there is an option to have it show non-image files. This is quite annoying
>> > since often mobile phone images contain the image file plus a side-car file
>> > like img_2655.aae or maybe there are just some other files in the folder.
>> > This can lead to unexpected data loss when the user deletes an album that
>> > looks to be empty when viewed in Digikam but was in reality not empty. I
>> > think there should at least be (an easy) way of toggling whether non-image
>> > files are shown or not. They can just be shown with a completely generic
>> > file icon as thumbnail.
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>> > I tested this on DK 7.
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