[digiKam-users] Environment/ini on Win10 & Digikam 7.2

[Gilles Caulier]

RC files are created after to complete First Run assistant and at least
started one digiKam instance.

https://i.imgur.com/Vhv6JCo.png

Gilles Caulier

Le ven. 7 mai 2021 à 00:02, KRODER Gerhard <gerdst1 at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> no such file in whole %userprofile% , and appdata/loal quite empty. So how
> is it generated, or where is a template to customize, at least? --config
> parameter would help then to get a profile like behaviour. Tnx.
>
> Cheers, Gerhard.
> Am 06.05.2021 um 22:59 schrieb Maik Qualmann:
>
> It's "...\AppData\Local" for configuration. digiKam also knows a "--config
> PATH/TO/CONFIGFILE" parameter with which you can use a different
> configuration. The specified file must be available, i.e. at least a 0-byte
> file.
>
> Maik
>
> Am Donnerstag, 6. Mai 2021, 22:41:59 CEST schrieb KRODER Gerhard:
>
> Hi,
>
> i do not have a digikamrc in my %appdata/roaming. Is it generated by
> installer? Or how can i  get it?
>
> I only have the unpacked tar, and it's .exe runs in general (besides
> lots of aborts).
>
> Cheers, Gerhard
>
> Am 06.05.2021 um 22:28 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
>
> Hi,
>
> digiKam do not use the registry database from Windows. It has a text
> configuration file named digikamrc located in your home directory
> (~/AppData/Roaming/...)
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le jeu. 6 mai 2021 à 22:20, KRODER Gerhard <gerdst1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:gerdst1 at gmail.com> <gerdst1 at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>     Hello all,
>
>     is there a way to control Digikam behavior rsp. startup settings,
>     and/or
>     all/most basic settings, one could do inside Digikam/Settings, by
>     a kind
>     of ini file, or environment variables (not from GUI)? Are there
>     (which?)
>     local settings at registry, %appdata% or %userprofile%?
>
>     I'd like to run different setups with same .exe (from 7.2 portable
>     package), kind of different usage profiles, to have same (or even
>     different) exe versions to access different/independent data storages
>     (drives, sticks...) without switching in GUI.
>
>     Cheers, Gerhard
>
>
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