Re: Tutorial: 'Setup of digiKam for Windows compatibility' – any updates?

[Paul A. Norman]

Bonjour Gilles,

Thank you for your advice on this, it helps in making a clear path for going forward now.

I might raise some specific questions later in separate threads – as appropriate, especially on portable or 'archive' installations.

Thanks again,
Paul
---
https://PaulANorman.info


On 21 April 2023 6:01:00 pm NZST, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>Le jeu. 20 avr. 2023 à 09:14, Paul A. Norman <paul at paulanorman.info> a
>écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been working through the following very helpful tutorial for
>Digikam establishment under Windows 10 on my own and a few friends'
>PCs...
>>
>> ‘Digikam/Tutorials/Setup of digiKam for Windows compatibility’
>>
>>
>https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Tutorials/Setup_of_digiKam_for_Windows_compatibility
>>
>> On the first machine I successfully upgraded from 7.10 to 8.0.0, and
>it runs very nicely thank you.
>>
>> While noting that the tutorial was prepared under DigiKam 7.4, I was
>however left concerned by this statement in the above tutorial ...
>>
>> “What you need to know –
>>
>>
>https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Tutorials/Setup_of_digiKam_for_Windows_compatibility#What_you_need_to_know
>>
>> “You have to re-check the Metadata settings every time you update
>digiKam to a new version, before you resume using digiKam as usual.
>> ★ Currently (digiKam 7.4) you do need to repeat the manual Metadata
>setting changes after each digiKam update.”
>>
>> 1) When I looked at the upgraded 8.0.0, it seemed that the
>alterations I had made, following the above 7.4 tutorial, (under 7.10),
>had been retained in the upgrade to 8.0.0.
>>
>> —Is that generally so now, or could other changes made under 7.10
>have been lost while upgrading to 8.0.0?
>
>I think this stage exists in this tutorial due to changes in settings
>name renaming internally. I think it's safe with 8.0.0 and later
>versions.
>
>>
>> 2) Also, are there other things that have changed regarding the
>tutorial:
>> ‘Digikam/Tutorials/Setup of digiKam for Windows compatibility’
>> since Digikam 7.4, and with recent upgrades of Windows 10 (and what
>about 11)?
>>
>> Any pointers appreciated please before I roll out any more
>installations under Windows 10 :-)
>
>The only one that i know, because i write it come from the online doc:
>
>https://docs.digikam.org/en/getting_started/installation.html#digikam-on-windows
>
>Best regards
>
>Gilles Caulier
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/attachments/20230421/b8238ddb/attachment.htm>