[digiKam-users] migrate settings to a new machine

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

I suppose that Snap will embed application configuration into the sandbox.
>From my viewpoint, it's a bad concept, invented by paranoid developers.

AppImage is different, more easy to use, with less security rules on the
basis. The configuration is stored at the same place as the native
application.
If you want to run the AppImage in a sandbox, you can do it with extension,
but it's a user choice...

This is why we choose to support AppImage instead Snap or Flatpak.
Simplicity and robustness.

Note: I saw today a thread in reddit SN about the Kate text editor which
left the Flatpak bundling. The comments and feedbacks are very instructive:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/t9fye8/why_kate_is_endoflife_on_flathub/

Best

Gilles Caulier



Le mer. 9 mars 2022 à 09:42, <loup+digikamusers at lo-cal.org> a écrit :

> Good to know now, but unfortunately my old installation was snap and I
> can't change that now.  Noted for future reference.
>
> for the purposes of this discussion, let's pretend that it wasn't a snap
> install.  What would I need to do?  Is it different for an appimage vs.
> a distribution install (my system is kubuntu).
>
> On 3/9/22 03:37, Andrew Goodbody wrote:
> > On 09/03/2022 04:09, loup+digikamusers at lo-cal.org wrote:
> >> How do I make digikam believe this is an existing installation rather
> >> than a new one?
> >
> > Don't use snap. Snap is not supported by the digikam devs. Snap brings
> > with it a whole world of pain to configure the sandboxing.
> >
> > If you insist on using snap then you will need to get support from
> > whoever made the snap package.
> >
> > You can get the digikam appimage, which is supported by the digikam
> > devs, from https://www.digikam.org/download/
> >
> > Andrew
>
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