[Bug 114539] New: Wish: Offline manager for Digikam

[Sorin Milutinovici]

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           Summary: Wish: Offline manager for Digikam
           Product: digikam
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: sorin contentlogic ro


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

I am sure that many users have photos archived on DVD-s or CD-s. It would be usefull to be able to imtegrate these in Digikam workflow (tags, searches, etc.). For this, we need an offline manager that will have, possibly, the following:

1. A menu item - Add offline album
2. A dialog with several options mainly related to the image cache from the disk:
2.1. Do we keep local copies of the images?
2.2. If we do, what should be the size (in pixels) and compression factor? (a default should be available)
2.3. Name of the disk, location of the disk.
3. General settings: CDROM drive for offline manager, default size and compression factor for image caches, Image cache location (directory).

Offline albums should have a diffrent icon than online albums. Thumbnails of the pictures that belong to offline albums should have a visual marker (different border, etc.)
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------- Additional Comments From bugs.kde.org alphapapa net  2005-11-26 09:27 -------
This is an important feature.  Hard disks keep growing, but they are not suitable for long-term archiving.  One could use external programs to copy photos to disc and keep a catalog of them, but that is cumbersome to keep up-to-date, and removes the advantages of saving hard disk space, and the all-in-one-ness of digiKam.  It's also a feature of Picasa.  ;)  Please consider this feature for 0.9 or 1.0 at least.
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------- Additional Comments From tomalbers kde nl  2005-12-30 13:04 -------
*** Bug 119228 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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------- Additional Comments From mikmach wp pl  2007-06-16 15:29 -------
*** Bug 146868 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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------- Additional Comments From jasper.mackenzie gmail com  2008-01-05 04:16 -------
I am using digikam 0.10.0 so as to be able to work on albums on a file server.
 This has similar issues to albums on cd, usbdrive etc.
The features I think are needed in the situation of an nfs, samba, or whatever network mounted album are as follows:
 i) That digikam is aware that the album is on a network drive, and as such may not always be available. (status shown)
 ii) All thumbnails are generated and stored locally. (no limit to cache)
  iia) What size? I like big thumbnails - I like lots of otions, here it would be good to choose what sizes you wanted genereate. i.e 96 and 256.
 iii) That the thumbnails be accesable even when the network drive is not mounted, and changes to meta-data and captions (whether exif change or database change) are synced to the remote files when available.
 iv) That files on the network mounted album can be flagged for local storage, and this list be obvious somewhow, maybee a 'local' album. Also possible through criteria - tags or rating etc.
  iva) The OPTION to sync changes from local -> remote or remote -> local (reload) be available.

I think these features are an essential bare minimum - not confusing - but logical and understandable considering the remote nature of the storage medium.
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------- Additional Comments From wmstrome yahoo com  2008-05-13 19:45 -------
I think that digiKam is probably the best software package for photo organization. However, the ability to include photos that are NOT on the local hard drive (e.g. on CDs and DVDs or other computers) is the one most desirable feature lacking.

In KPhotoAlbum, you can include such photos in your database very easily:

Copy the photos from the CD/DVD to the directory where you have your KPhotoAlbum.
Rescan the photos, an tag all the new ones you are adding.
Delete the photos you have copied from the CD/DVD

Now, in your Thumbnails view, all of those photos still appear. All the attributes are there as well. The only difference in the Thumbnails is that the upper right hand corner is clipped off to indicate that the photo is not on disk.

If this feature were to be added to digiKam, I think it would be the perfect solution for my photo organizing needs.  

I really don't want to have to run two programs, but digiKam does not have this feature, and I have found too many other difficulties with KPhotoAlbum to use it exclusively.
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------- Additional Comments From caulier.gilles gmail com  2008-05-13 19:56 -------
Murray,

removable and multiple root album support have been implemented to KDE4 port (0.10.0) of digiKam, but code still not yet finalized.

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------- Additional Comments From wmstrome yahoo com  2008-05-24 01:33 -------
Gilles,
Is there any estimate of when this might become available? I just upgraded my Kubuntu to 8.04 and DigiKam to 0.9.3 (using KDE 3.5.9). KDE 4.04 is available now for Kubuntu 8.04 but I would not likely want to try it unless (or until) the version of DigiKam which would support inclusion of off-line images becomes available.
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------- Additional Comments From caulier.gilles gmail com  2008-05-24 08:21 -------
Murray,

Look release plan web page :

http://www.digikam.org/?q=about/releaseplan

Gilles
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