Digikam not working properly (on Fedora 38 GNOME)

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

Well it's simple. Forgot the Application store to install digiKam. As an
application which needs access to the host operating system a lot, the
sandboxing used by the store is just a pain.

Try the AppImage bundle that we package for Linux. It will work better. The
8.2.0 pre-release is available here:

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Nota: I don't know why the Linux distro tries to force us to use a very
limited sandoxing policy. It's just an idiot idea at all. When installing
Ubuntu on my computer, Snap is the first thing that I drop completely from
the system (for ex to install Firefox).

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le mar. 31 oct. 2023 à 18:22, Jethro Busby <jethrobusby at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi all,
> I used to use Digikam with Windows, and everything worked fine. Now, the
> same PC has been dual-booted, with Fedora Linux 38 (GNOME edition). Digikam
> isn't working very well.
> (I installed Digikam from the default *Software* app store.)
> Firstly, not all the folders are showing up. I keep my photos in
> MASTER<YEAR<YEAR-MONTH-DAY folders, and only the first few months of 2023
> are showing in the albums view. I have the same files and folder structure
> in Fedora, and I pointed Digikam to the original database files (in the
> same place in the folder structure).
> [image: image.png]
>
> Secondly, Digikam isn't working properly. For example, when I go to
> Settings<Configure digikam, I get this <https://youtu.be/oqM616VFr30>
> weird behaviour when I click *confirm* or *cancel*. (That's a video taken
> by an actual camera; screenshots gave me this):
> [image: Screenshot from 2023-10-29 17-33-23.png]
> Digikam is just acting really odd.
>
> What should I do?
>
> --
> *Jethro busby*
>
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