http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18640 <pre>Hello, and thanks very much for the DigiKam/ShowFoto application. I use it a lot, and occasionally use GIMP. This is an independent outside-origin email for the developers; I'm not a member of the DigiKam users homepage and have not mentioned this matter inside the relevant forums. Just a quick request for a couple of additional features: Since many computer users have a dual monitor setup, it would be nice to have another Composition Guide within the Aspect Ratio Crop function. When I edit a given image for use as a dual-screen desktop picture, it's visually relevant to crop and divide the image, such that the physical split between two monitors isn't too distracting. To aid in such "crop-composition", a simple horizontal and vertical cross formation would be very useful into the Geometric form set of choices. The diagonals, triangles, and divisions-into-thirds are of no help, when dividing an image into exactly half. This would save some time when adjusting the final desktop image to look the best, when physically divided by two screens. Additionally, to have an "Instant Desktop" preview button somewhere within the options, would make it easy to test-view the final edit of the given desktop background picture. There may not be much demand for such options, but they would aid in editing a dual-screen desktop image. If any DigiKam/ShowFoto developers use two (or more) monitors, they could try editing an image and see for themselves how much quicker it may be, without using the separate "Set as Desktop Background" function within the standard image viewer. Would there be a way to add a "Desktop Background" function within DigiKam? Thanks very much for the application so far. It's improved over time and is easier to use than GIMP, but could use a couple of extra features. I've used your application intensively for years, am quite familiar with its major functions, and am very happy with it. - Grateful user. PS - I've noticed that when I'm working on very large files, DigiKam freezes and will not work with those huge images. Also, it might be nice to have a "Keep same quality level as original" (in percentages?) when saving a final image; this would assume some way to determine the image quality at the start of editing or re-editing an image. And if anyone wishes to see or try various long-horizonal-aspect images, and to check the visual appearance when an image is divided between two physical monitors, feel free to view several examples (mostly borrowed web images, re-edited) at: http://syntheticidea.deviantart.com/ . I've tried to form the final images so they're not too distracting when seen on two monitors. The central "division line" seems important to get the best-looking image possible, without little distractions located at that half-way division-line, separating two monitors. Sorry for my poor descriptions and explanations here. And only for Linux geeks: I hope the OS Geek Chart may be of some amusement. Don't worry: all operating system users are screwed in this snide "artistic work", but Linux users least of all. Here are the links: http://addressunlisted.deviantart.com/art/OS-Geek-Chart-Anim-PNG-960p-176970150?q=gallery%3Aaddressunlisted%2F26276728&amp;qo=1 &lt;http://addressunlisted.deviantart.com/art/OS-Geek-Chart-Anim-PNG-960p-176970150?q=gallery%3Aaddressunlisted%2F26276728&amp;qo=1&gt; and additionally http://addressunlisted.deviantart.com/art/OS-Geek-Chart-Anim-GIF-960p-176969657?q=gallery%3Aaddressunlisted%2F26276728&amp;qo=2 &lt;http://addressunlisted.deviantart.com/art/OS-Geek-Chart-Anim-GIF-960p-176969657?q=gallery%3Aaddressunlisted%2F26276728&amp;qo=2&gt; . You may have to stare at the thing for a few minutes before understanding how ridiculous it is... In such an animation, any image occupying a certain space is considered equal to or related to any other image in that same spot, and progressions and relations may be implied. I have other similar animations elsewhere, but won't bother you with the details. This one is bad enough! (Of course, DigiKam was used for initial editing and cropping, while GIMP made the animated GIFs, and the Java Animated PNG Editor formed the animated PNGs.) Bye _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list Digikam-users-RoXCvvDuEio&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users </pre> Porn Virus 2012-05-21T05:48:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18638 <pre>File rename fails to include the 'hidden' metadata files in the process. David </pre> David Vincent-Jones 2012-05-22T17:17:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18634 <pre>Hallo, I am since 4 years a user for digikam in gnome and very happy with the functionality. I am planning for a new computer on which I want to install the same software with the same configuration. I have a way to transfer my software repository. But where to find my digikam configuration files, so I don't have to manually input my tag-structure. I found some but I don't know if it is all Please your help. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list Digikam-users-RoXCvvDuEio&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users </pre> Geert Jan klinkhamer 2012-05-20T08:21:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18632 <pre>Hi all, I would like to merge two digikam DBs (v2.5.0). I found some posts on the mailing list but couldn't find the description in the docs. The docs linked from digikam.org to docs.kde.org do not exist btw. Could anybody give me a hint how to do the merge? Best regards, David </pre> David Obando 2012-05-20T13:04:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18628 <pre>Hello, I am trying to find out if DigiKam allows you to read in a raw file (like canon CR2) and write out a linear DNG just like Adobe DNG Converter. I know LibRaw has support for this... more info on linear DNG: http://www.barrypearson.co.uk/articles/dng/linear.htm Thanks, - Elliot. _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list Digikam-users-RoXCvvDuEio&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users </pre> Elliot Newman 2012-05-18T15:54:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18626 <pre>Hello, I want to manage my photo collection and video collection with digikam. With digikam I tagged my photos and I want to begin with the video. My problem is the following: If I want to use another software to manage my photos and video in the future (perhaps one time another one will fit better to my needs, but for the moment digikam is perfect :-D) how can I make sure I don't have to retag everything ? When I will have much more photos and videos it won't be possible to do the work again. For the moment I did the following. At first I had photos in jpg format. I had written the tags in the jpg files. But now I have a mixt of photo in jpg and raw format. I can't write the tags in the metadata of the raw format. It would be possible (I saw it's experimental for the moment) to write in the raw files, but it's not advised. So I discovered the xmp sidecar and I created for every tagged photos a .xmp file. But now I will tag my videos and with digikam it's not possible to create a xmp file for videos. I think the best way the retain the tag is to write in the metadata of the video, but how ? Or can I create an xmp sidecar for video with another software ? At the moment I'm looking at exiftool but until now I was not able to create an xmp sidecar for video with the same format as for the photos. If you don't know: what is your strategy to make sure you won't have to retag everything if you change one time digikam for another software ? And for the developpers: is it planned in the near future that it will be possible to create an xmp sidecar for videos ? Thank you! </pre> Cédric Macquat 2012-05-17T11:03:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18623 <pre>Hello all, I am trying to make HDR with two jpegs. In the tools menus I choose "fusionner les images prises en fourchettes". A box appears with the names of the binaries (align_image_stack 2011.4.0 and enfuse 4.0). Then "next", another box with the names of the two images. Then "next" I arrive on "aligner les images". Next "cette operation peut prendre un peu de temps" and "Le prétraitement a échoué (Preprocessing failed)" . By clicking on "details" open another empty box. Running digikam in a terminal, i obtain the following output: digikam QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: connection 'ConnectionTest' is still in use, all queries will cease to work. (digikam:5848): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_debug_add_log_function: assertion `func != NULL' failed digikam(5848)/KIPI (general) KIPIExpoBlendingPlugin::ItemsPage::slotAction: Unknown action Last line is when the preprocessing failed. KDE Platform Version: 4.6.5 Linux 2.6.38.8-desktop-10.mga x86_64 (Mageia 1) Is it a bug? Thank you for your help _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list Digikam-users-RoXCvvDuEio&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users </pre> POTTIER Michel 2012-05-16T15:14:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18614 <pre>I have an album containing pictures, and a sub-directory containing a sub-set of those pictures, plus some modified versions. I've rated the images in the sub-directory and now I want to put all pictures from the sub-directory into the main album. I know this will involve clashes with pictures that already exist in the main album but I just want to overwrite those. So I select all pictures in the subdirectory, right-click to 'move to album' and select the main album directory. DK throws up a warning that a 'File Already Exists' and I press the 'Overwrite' button but DK just pops up a warning window about the same file again ... and again and again. It seems to be broken :-( Incidentally the duplicate files in the main album and the sub-directory are hard links, not copies. I guess I can overwrite the files using other tools, gui or cli, but I want to do it with DK so it remembers the ratings I've applied to files in the subdir: I suspect that if I move them outside of DK it will just seem them as having vanished and forget the ratings I'd applied to them. (As a workaround maybe I can use some cli hacking to delete the duplicate copies in the main dir and then move sub-dir files.) </pre> John Stumbles 2012-05-14T23:25:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18608 <pre>Hello digikam users, currently travelling (for a long time), I have my netbook which broke recently. So I switched my working environment to a live lubuntu usb key (12.04) and try to use digikam on it (which is very heavy on persistent disk ~500MB but ...). My problem is after restoring config files on my persistent disk, make a symlink from my external disk as ~/Images, double checking digikam config file (~/.kde/share/{config/digikamrc,apps/digikam*}, I still have digikam showing me a empty root album folder ... I don't have any error message outside of digikam saying it detects my collection on a removable media (i try both ignore or mark as removable collection). I update permissions/user of db file and some of sub-images folder as live ubuntu user is 999 (vs 1000 on most distrib). Digikam is 2.5.0 pristine from lubuntu depository (and not ppa for now :) No problem to access files w browser or gthumb. Any ideas where the problem could be ? Thanks a lot. Cheers, Julien </pre> Julien T 2012-05-13T20:37:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18604 <pre>Hi I have digiKam 2.5.0 installed on WinXP sp3. My tags are read only: if I try to add a tag I get the message "Failed to add tag to database". I can add collections without problems. Thanks, Ashley Brewerton _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list Digikam-users-RoXCvvDuEio&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users </pre> Brewerton, Ashley 2012-05-10T17:57:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18590 <pre>Ive been using digikam for a while now. In general as a library management tool it works well for me. There are two functions that I don't understand. Collections: (I recently wiped out my digikam db and started fresh and have not re-connected my remote collections yet so perhaps this has changed.) The notion of remote or removable collections. Both the thumbnails and the metadata are stored in the database correct? Whenever I launch digikam and my network collections are not available I cant use digikam to browse the disconnected collections. So in order to find an image I have to have that collection connected? Since all the information is available shouldn't I be able to search and browse the collection, but be given some message about attaching the collection before being able to view a full size image? DB: The reason I wiped out my db is because I rename and sort images with some custom scripts. At one point some images could no longer be found with digikam but they were inside the collections, and I did some db spelunking and saw they were there too, I also noticed references to files that I had moved outside of digikam. How do I "cleanup" that database cruft? Is that what "rebuild fingerprints" is for? It wasnt clear in the documentation what that function actually did. I would appreciate any clarification and insight anyone can provide. </pre> Nick Anderson 2012-05-10T14:59:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18589 <pre>I'm using Bodhi linux 1.4 that is basied on Ubuntu Lucid. I've tried installing Philips ppa, but I can not get digikam to install from it. Are the lucid packages not included in it? Thanks, Kim </pre> Kim 2012-05-10T14:24:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18588 <pre>Dear all digiKam fans and users! The digiKam development team is happy to release new digiKam Software Collection 2.6.0 RC. For more details, see announcement on digikam.org: http://www.digikam.org/node/653 This is a pre-production release. Use it carefully... Thanks in advance for your reports. Gilles Caulier digiKam project http://www.digikam.org </pre> Gilles Caulier 2012-05-10T13:54:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18585 <pre>Hi! I'm new here and I'm new to digiKam but I've just managed to geotag a bunch of photos (Version 2.5.0). It is very nice to mark a photo in the list and to see right in the geolocation view the place it has been shoot. But it is a little annoying that the map zooms very close by each photo change, not keeping the zoom level set before; so I must allways zoom out a bit to see also the surroundings. I found a button to lock the hole map position, this locks also the zoom level, but that's not what I'm searching for. I'd like to lock only the zoom level, but not the map position. Is this somehow possible? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/how-to-lock-the-zoom-level-in-the-right-geolocation-view-tp4617236.html Sent from the digikam-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. </pre> rawi 2012-05-08T11:43:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18584 <pre>I think digikam is fantastic - it does so many things right that other digital assets managers do wrong. Thanks! I'm having a devil of a time getting it installed in Ubuntu 12.04 - I keep getting error messages: Unpacking digikam-data (from .../digikam-data_4%3a2.5.0-1ubuntu2_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/digikam-data_4%3a2.5.0-1ubuntu2_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/kde4/apps/gpssync/searchmarker-normal.png', which is also in package kipi-plugins2-common 2.1.1-natty~ppa2 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/digikam-data_4%3a2.5.0-1ubuntu2_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I've tried erasing the files it says it can't overwrite, installing digikaqm-data separately, and other things with no success. Any ideas? I had 2.something installed and working fine in 10.10, I think I installed it from ppa because I couldn't wait to see it :-). Thanks! </pre> Jeff Zucker 2012-05-08T04:43:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18582 <pre>I'm trying to understand the geolocation function. I'm assuming it should allow you to assign geographical latitude and longitude coordinates to images, similarly to the way one can apply them to one's videos on YouTube. If I select the geolocation icon on the right hand sidebar I get a map of the world as seen from space with 'AMERICA' 'AFRICA' etc marked on it and, below that 'Altitude:' 'Latitude:' 'Longitude:' and 'Date:' (all blank) and a row of buttons below; but all this is greyed out and nothing seems to do anything. If I select the 'Map' icon on the top menu bar I get a map of part of Holland. I have a row of buttons at the bottom like those in the sidebar but these are in colour and my 'Map settings' button gives me a menu: Google maps / Marble Virtual Globe (currently ticked) / Atlas map (ticked) / Open street map ...etc. I can drag the map across to roughly the location I wish to apply to my pictures but it only shows towns a few tens of kilometres apart, and there seem no way to associate the location with pictures. If I select an image, or images, in my Thumbnail view, and choose menu Image -&gt; Geolocation I get a pop-up titled "Geolocation - digiKam" with another low-resolution map, but I can search for a specific location. I can then select image(s) in a pane at bottom-left of this pop-up window and I would guess that pressing 'Apply' should mark the selected images with the coordinates of my chosen location. But the Apply button doesn't seem, visibly, to do anything and when I 'Close' the Geolocation pop-up window and go back to my Thumbnails view in the main dK window I can't see any difference in the images I've tried to tag e.g. the right-sidebar geolocation window is still a globe view, greyed out. I've tried the digiKam help page but that shows the geolocation window in colour displaying a map of a smaller portion of the planet the hemisphere mine is showing, and doesn't say how to get to that sort of display. Any help would be much appreciated! </pre> John Stumbles 2012-05-08T18:44:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18581 <pre>Hi! I'm new here and I'm new to digiKam but I've just managed to geotag a bunch of photos (Version 2.5.0). It is very nice to mark a photo in the list and to see in the geolocation view right the geo-place it has been shoot. But it is a little annoying that the map zooms very close by each photo change, not keeping the zoom level set before; so I must zoom out a bit for each photo to see also the surroundings. I found a button to lock the whole map position, this locks also the zoom level, but that's not what I'm searching for. I'd like to lock only the zoom level, but not the map position. Is this somehow possible? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/how-to-lock-the-zoom-level-in-the-geolocation-view-tp4617513.html Sent from the digikam-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. </pre> rawi 2012-05-08T13:40:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18574 <pre>Hi, i try to configure digikam (1.8.0; KDE 4.6.00; openSUSE 11.4; 64-Bit) In Configure/Colletions i want set a colletion at a LAN-Share (SMB/CIFS) as the description says: "... remote file systems (like NFS or Samba) are supported.' At 'Add Collection' i can browse to the directory, but after i choose it, i get an Error 'The selected directory does not exist or is not readable.' There are no problems to access this directory with an file browser like dolphin. Why denied DigiKam to work wich the remote folder even it says it can use remote folders in the description? (I found a work-a-round (mount the Network-Share as root) but this is a very bad solution because a normal user can't do this (and do not know how) so i resume 'It is not possible to use DigiKam 1.8.0 in the KDE enviroment with remote collections!') Will there be a solution for this? Ask Bernd </pre> bnacht-S0/GAf8tV78< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-06T13:15:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18569 <pre>Hallo Zusammen, ich habe immer noch das Problem, dass Digikam beim Scannen der Fotos irgend wo abstürzt. Danach sind in Digikam keine Thumbnails mehr sichtbar. Kann mir irgendjemand helfen, wo hier der Fehler sein könnte? Vermutlich werden in der Datenbank falsche oder unvollständige Datensätze eingetragen? Wie kann dieser Fehler in der Datenbank wieder behoben werden? Ich habe inzwischen schon vielfach versucht alle meine Fotos in die Datenbank zu bekommen. Leider stürzt Digikam immer wieder ab und es sind keine Thmubnails/Bilder mehr verfügbar. Das Problem taucht mit der SQLite-Datenbank genauso auf wie mit einer Mysql-Datenbank. Ich habe Digikam 2.5 unter Windows XP mit SP3 installiert. </pre> Wolfgang Strobel 2012-05-05T19:13:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18561 <pre>Hello, How can I make the "proportional crop tool" remember the settings I entered with "user defined" (benutzerdefiniert)? Thanks for hints. Daniel (digikam 2.5.0, KDE 4.8.2, Opensuse rpm) </pre> Daniel Bauer 2012-05-02T11:16:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/18554 <pre>With Qt: 4.6.3 KDE Development Platform: 4.4.5 (KDE 4.4.5) digiKam: 1.2.0 and, more recently Qt: 4.7.4 KDE Development Platform: 4.7.4 (4.7.4) digiKam: 1.9.0 I have consistently experienced the same problem when working with DNGs and JPGs generated by Ricoh GXR modules: For a given picture, the thumbnail views of both the DNG and of the JPG files are fine. Import (RAW decoding) of the DNG file is fine too with Auto-Brightness unchecked. The JPG preview is also fine but the DNG preview often looks horrible. No matter whether "Embedded preview loads full-sized images" is checked or unchecked, DNG previews often look quite different from their JPG counterparts *AND* from from their raw decoding imports. In many cases, DNG previews look like raw decodings with Auto-Brightness checked. It is as if brightness always was auto-adjusted in DNG previewing. This is quite frustrating since it makes DNGs unusable for previewing and forces me to save both DNGs and JPGs versions of the same picture. Any idea how to solve this problem ? Any help is highly appreciated. Best, Nicola </pre> Nicola Botta 2012-05-02T20:33:29 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user