[KimDaBa] KimDaBa 2.0 is released.

[William Holland]

On the subject of importing things, I've just been importing 10,000 photos 
that I took a couple of years ago, and have kept with short files in psuedo 
xml format to describe them.  In order that I don't loose much info, I've 
just written a short perl script to read each xml file, and compile into a 
kimdaba 1.1 file.  It seems to work quite well, although, kimdaba seems a 
little loaded by the extra images (I am comiling 2.0 which may have something 
to do with it).

If this can be of any use to someone then let me know, and I'll publish the 
script. - Should be fairly customisable to read in different formats.

BTW Jesper, is there any chance that there will be an option to merge kimdaba 
databases? or shall I just write another 1/2 hour perl script?

Will.

On Monday 18 October 2004 17:57, Jean-Michel FAYARD wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:20:45 +0200, Jesper K. Pedersen
>
> <blackie at blackie.dk> wrote:
> > Finally, after 8 month of work KimDaBa 2.0 is now ready for your hungry
> > minds.
>
> Congrats !
>
> > In the news section of the KimDaBa web site you will find detailed
> > information about what is new in KimDaBa 2.0
>
> It´s here http://ktown.kde.org/kimdaba/news.htm
> Perfect timing, I´ve just finished to translate the rest of the website.
>
> One remark : (note, I´m not trying to put my things forward, I frankly
> don´t care)
>
> ALL people I´ve showed KimDaBa loved the concept (it only gets better now)
>
> The two only things that stopped some of them are :
> 1) not available on their windows (that´s a bad for a good : I
> converted three people to Linux thanks KimDaBa, write it in your
> testimonials if you want ;-)
> 2) high migration time, the first time, from their directory-based
> huge collection to the KimDaBa properties-based system. You are
> reluctant to spend all this time when you don´t know (YET) how good is
> the software.
>
> As made perfectly clear by this mail[1] from Michael Sternberg, the
> "browse by folder" thing is the answer to 2). KimDaBa is instantly as
> good as their old systems, and it only get (far) better after that
> with the properties system. So you should put this that way :
>
> " An automatic category [...] making it easy to switch "
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.kimdaba/602
>
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