[KimDaBa] KimDaBa 2.0 is released.

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 20:39, William Holland wrote:
| 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).
Slow in what sense? KimDaBa 2.1 will have a real db, which will cut away load 
time of the db, but besides that, kimdaba 2.0 should already be fast in every 
other sense (to my knowledge at least)
|
| 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?
export from one, import into the other.
|
| 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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Having trouble finding a given image in your collection containing
thousands of images?

http://ktown.kde.org/kimdaba might be the answer.