[KimDaBa] KimDaBa 2.0 is released.

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

On Wednesday 20 October 2004 20:00, William Holland wrote:
| It's not that it's slow for the data - an 10 Meg xml file should be
| relatively slow. (from one filter, when I click on the 'home' icon, it
| takes 3 seconds to re-load the root interface, on an athlon 1GHz, 512MB)  I
| now have 14000 entries in the database, so that's not exactly slow.
|
| Great that you're putting in a true DB backend for 2.1 (I hope you will
| still keep the option of xml files for those of us too lazy to setup a
| proper database.
Ohhhh yes indeed, and for all of those (like me) who why shy away from kimdaba 
before ever giving it a try, if it requires them to install a db.

It will be possible to start with an XML file, and then later change to a db, 
and later even back again.

Cheers
Jesper.

|
| On Wednesday 20 October 2004 06:20, you wrote:
| > 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.
|
| I've written a quick script anyway, as most of the images don't actually
| exist on the disk, and so the location field is critical (I'll be using the
| mount disks one at a time trick)  Location is also a bit critical for some
| other applications, and finally I don't have the disk space to duplicate
| the images that I have in either database.  Maybe I've mis-read the manual
| on export, but it appears that when you export, it will copy the files into
| a flat structure.
|
| > | 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.