[KimDaBa] Re: Rescan for images proposal

[Eugen Dedu]

Marco Colnaghi wrote:
> Sorry,
> I absolutely don't know kimdaba sources  and
> I did't mean it was a "must have feature"...
> 
> I was thinking that scan finding a new folder during a full scan
> or during a partial scan were quite similar situations (from development
> perspective)
> so a very quick rescan for the single folder I just added after downloading
> images with gphoto2
> or for a small subtree when you rename a folder was a good thing.
> 
> P.S. I'm a Debian user (Etch) with kimdaba 2.1 but I didn't find a way to
> install kipiplugins so
> it could be I miss different features offered by plugins, sorry.

You can install them with apt-get install kipi-plugins.

> Thanks everybody,
> Marco.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eugen Dedu" <Eugen.Dedu at pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>
> To: "Marco Colnaghi" <marco.colnaghi at libero.it>
> Cc: <>
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 8:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [KimDaBa] Rescan for images proposal
> 
> 
> 
>>Marco Colnaghi wrote:
>>
>>>Hi everybody,
>>>I hope this was not discussed before (I started following kimdaba list
> 
> only  2 months ago)
> 
>>>I make "Rescan for new Images" less than i can because it takes a long
> 
> time,
> 
>>>but I think it could be improved adding a similar function: "Rescan for
> 
> Images from dir"
> 
>>>This function could do exacly the same rescan but simply starting from a
> 
> choosen dir (a dir select dialog is needed)
> 
>>>so to avoid wasting time for scanning unchanged dirs.
>>>
>>>A simple example (common for me) can explain it very well.
>>>
>>>I use a folder tree for images:
>>>
>>>2001/
>>>    /010515_SeaTrip
>>>2002/
>>>    /020712_SeaTrip2002
>>>    /020712_Mountain
>>>2005/
>>>    /050811_Holidays
>>>    /050902_Friends
>>>    /051001_NewDir
>>>
>>>When I add the new subdir 051001_NewDir in 2005 dir I should not need to
> 
> rescan all the tree,
> 
>>>I would like to rescan 2005 subtree only.
>>>
>>>Thanks for you opinions,
>>>bye, Marco.
>>
>>Your feature adds complexity.  IMHO, I think it's not necessary, since
>>you execute rarely kimdaba with new images.  The most frequently you
>>execute it without new images.


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Eugen