[digiKam-users] No selectable folders for root path

[Edoardo Milan]

Dear brownphotographic,

thanks a lot for your answer! It's very kind of you to share all of 
these informations and I really appreciate it, I wasn't aware of any of 
the software you're pointing out.
Yes, I did install DK through flatpak (and through elementary's app 
center itself) and I'm convinced now that that was the cause of my 
issue.
By now I have already installed the appimage (and manually added it to 
the apps menu), so I couldn't test Flatseal or AppImageLauncher out, 
but I'm sure they will come in handy in the future.
I certainly agree flatpak apps are still quite clumsy to seamlessly 
blend in the system, at least on elementary (although at least they 
give the option to run more recent software).
AppImage, as I was saying, looks more solid -- but lacks native UX 
integration for what I can see (It's like suddenly jumping from 
Pantheon to KDE).
Thanks again for your help,

E.

Il giorno dom 17 gen 2021 alle 13:45, brownphotographic 
<brownphotographic at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> If you installed digital with flatpak option (elementary supports 
> flatpak
> their app store), then try downloading Flatseal app (also available 
> on the
> app store). Then in flatseal, scroll down to the section where you see
> folder paths. Add your home folder there.
> 
> FYI I have had all kinds of problems with flatpak apps. When I was 
> running
> digikam flatpak I had that same problem, plus issues accessing other
> programs (e.g. open a file in a separate raw converter), and issues 
> with
> multimedia support (movies and thumbnails for them were broken). In my
> experience, I consider flatpak and specifically the way in which 
> operating
> systems integrate support for it, to be an early days experiment that 
> hasn't
> really been full thought out and executed.
> 
> Instead, I would recommend going to the digital.org website and 
> downloading
> the appimage. That will download an executable file, which is similar 
> to
> Windows exe or Mac DMG. All dependencies are contained within it and 
> it
> works great. This recommendation comes from recent experimentation 
> with apps
> that are flatpak, snap and OS repository based that are available in 
> the app
> store. I found none of the above worked well with digikam.
> 
> If you haven't ever run from an appimage before, once you download the
> appimage, right click, select properties and change permissions to 
> allow it
> to be executable.
> 
> To make appimage even more usable I suggest downloading / installing
> https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher
> 
> 
> 
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