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digikam-1.0.0.-rc6. I have one album created: /opt/camera/summer-2009.
Under that album I can access all sub-folders. Now I want to create a new folder : /opt/camera/fall-2009. I can create it as a sub-folder in summer-2009, but I can't create it as a top-level folder. When I highlight "My Albums" the option to create a new folder is grayed out. What am I missing? sean _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Le 13/11/2009 16:45, sean darcy a écrit :
> digikam-1.0.0.-rc6. I have one album created: /opt/camera/summer-2009. > Under that album I can access all sub-folders. > > Now I want to create a new folder : /opt/camera/fall-2009. I can create > it as a sub-folder in summer-2009, but I can't create it as a top-level > folder. When I highlight "My Albums" the option to create a new folder > is grayed out. > > What am I missing? > > sean jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 05:36:28PM +0100, jdd-gmane wrote:
> Le 13/11/2009 16:45, sean darcy a écrit : > > digikam-1.0.0.-rc6. I have one album created: /opt/camera/summer-2009. > > Under that album I can access all sub-folders. > > > > Now I want to create a new folder : /opt/camera/fall-2009. I can create > > it as a sub-folder in summer-2009, but I can't create it as a top-level > > folder. When I highlight "My Albums" the option to create a new folder > > is grayed out. > > > > What am I missing? > > > > sean > this is not an album but a "collection", so create it from the config menu I agree with the OP, it should be possible to create multiple albums at the top level, it's claimed to be possible. I, too, want to create (say) an album for each year which is all that is shown when you open it. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Le 13/11/2009 19:30, Chris G a écrit :
> I, too, want to create (say) an album for each year which is all that > is shown when you open it. > if you speak of digikam 0.10 for kde4, it's what's is called a collection. just open the config menu, right clic in the window to create a folder and it will be shown at to level in digikam jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 07:59:55PM +0100, jdd-gmane wrote:
> Le 13/11/2009 19:30, Chris G a écrit : > > > I, too, want to create (say) an album for each year which is all that > > is shown when you open it. > > > if you speak of digikam 0.10 for kde4, it's what's is called a > collection. just open the config menu, right clic in the window to > create a folder and it will be shown at to level in digikam Do what??? I have digikam 0.10.0. Where is the "config menu", there's not one on my digikam. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Le 13/11/2009 20:06, Chris G a écrit :
> I have digikam 0.10.0. Where is the "config menu", there's not one > on my digikam. > please, search a little ! next to help, "config" then "configure digikam" (bottom) linux digikam... if under windows, it may be on the edit menu jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:01:04PM +0100, jdd-gmane wrote:
> Le 13/11/2009 20:06, Chris G a écrit : > > > I have digikam 0.10.0. Where is the "config menu", there's not one > > on my digikam. > > > please, search a little ! > > next to help, "config" then "configure digikam" (bottom) > > linux digikam... if under windows, it may be on the edit menu > Next to Help is Settings, is that what you mean? OK, so I go into Collections and try and add '2009', it refuses because I already have a 2009 in my /home/chris/pictures. !!! It *doesn't* do anything I couldn't do before in previous versions, all it does is allow a different way to the same place. I have, in Local Collections a collection called 'pictures'. I want to add other collections, I can't. It simply doesn't work as it seems it should. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Le 13/11/2009 23:48, Chris G a écrit :
> Next to Help is Settings, is that what you mean? probably, I'm french and use the french version, so I don't know the exact english words, I can only guess > > OK, so I go into Collections and try and add '2009', it refuses > because I already have a 2009 in my /home/chris/pictures. !!! can't you simply *select* 2009?? > > It *doesn't* do anything I couldn't do before in previous versions, > all it does is allow a different way to the same place. > > I have, in Local Collections a collection called 'pictures'. I want > to add other collections, I can't. collections are system folders, one can't have two folders/files with the same name this was always the case jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On Friday 13 November 2009, Chris G wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:01:04PM +0100, jdd-gmane wrote: > > Le 13/11/2009 20:06, Chris G a écrit : > > > I have digikam 0.10.0. Where is the "config menu", there's not one > > > on my digikam. > > > > please, search a little ! > > > > next to help, "config" then "configure digikam" (bottom) > > > > linux digikam... if under windows, it may be on the edit menu > > I'm on Ubuntu 9.04, I *think* that's Linux. :-) > > Next to Help is Settings, is that what you mean? > > OK, so I go into Collections and try and add '2009', it refuses > because I already have a 2009 in my /home/chris/pictures. !!! > > It *doesn't* do anything I couldn't do before in previous versions, > all it does is allow a different way to the same place. > several directories that are not necesarily all in the same subdirectory. You could add for example a directory on a usb drive, or one on a network share, all next to one or more local paths. Not everybody keeps all of his/her pictures in one single root directory (with subdirectories). So the new configuration *does* allow things that were not possbible before, although it may not be relevant for your use case. > I have, in Local Collections a collection called 'pictures'. I want > to add other collections, I can't. > > It simply doesn't work as it seems it should. I have seen this as well with digikam on Mandriva 2009.0. It was fixed in Mandriva 2009.1, so I didn't have to investigate. If you start digikam from the command line, and then try to add a collection, do you get any error messages in the terminal ? That was the case with me. These error messages may help the developers trace the problem. Geert _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 09:14:11AM +0100, jdd-gmane wrote:
> Le 13/11/2009 23:48, Chris G a écrit : > > > Next to Help is Settings, is that what you mean? > > probably, I'm french and use the french version, so I don't know the > exact english words, I can only guess > > > > OK, so I go into Collections and try and add '2009', it refuses > > because I already have a 2009 in my /home/chris/pictures. !!! > > can't you simply *select* 2009?? > > > > > It *doesn't* do anything I couldn't do before in previous versions, > > all it does is allow a different way to the same place. > > > > I have, in Local Collections a collection called 'pictures'. I want > > to add other collections, I can't. > > collections are system folders, one can't have two folders/files with > the same name > > this was always the case > What I (and I think the OP) want to do is to have independent digikam 'collections' (if that's what you want to call them) at the top level. When I go into the Configure Digikam menu it looks like it's offering me a way to do this and it's certainly what I *thought* was being offered by this 'new' ability that 0.10.0 is supposed to have. It shows me my existing directory tree under Local Collections so under that I see a branch with /home/chris/pictures. Then there's a button which says "Add Collection", it seems obvious to me that if I click on that button I should be able to add another collection at the same level as /home/chris/pictures and be able to select *either* /home/chris/pictures or the new collection. But it doesn't work. I'm pretty sure this is what the OP was complaining about, it simply doesn't work the way one expects (and hopes). -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Le 14/11/2009 09:57, Chris G a écrit :
> same level as /home/chris/pictures and be able to select *either* > /home/chris/pictures or the new collection. But it doesn't work. > > I'm pretty sure this is what the OP was complaining about, it simply > doesn't work the way one expects (and hopes). > don't know exactly :-( On the old (kde3) digikam I used two days ago, one could create as many databases as one wanted, selecting the level. I used this all the time because I have folders with same name inside several collections and when exporting old digikam was grouping all the folders together. For example, I have a "numeric" collection with a 2009 album. I also have a "scanned" collection with also a 2009 album. in the export menu, digikam (or the kipi plugin) listed the two "2009" on the same list, making it difficult to select the good one. so I could choose "numeric" as root, build the database there and exoprt "all" the folders without thinking now, with new digikam, I can choose as collections both "numeric" and "scanned" and open or close them at will in any digikam window. This is better, because like this the tags are kept. However there is no more "select all" button in this 0.10 version there is neither "export as video" option jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Am Samstag, 14. November 2009 09:57:17 schrieb Chris G:
> What I (and I think the OP) want to do is to have independent digikam > 'collections' (if that's what you want to call them) at the top level. > > When I go into the Configure Digikam menu it looks like it's offering > me a way to do this and it's certainly what I *thought* was being > offered by this 'new' ability that 0.10.0 is supposed to have. > > It shows me my existing directory tree under Local Collections so > under that I see a branch with /home/chris/pictures. Then there's a > button which says "Add Collection", it seems obvious to me that if I > click on that button I should be able to add another collection at the > same level as /home/chris/pictures and be able to select *either* > /home/chris/pictures or the new collection. But it doesn't work. > > I'm pretty sure this is what the OP was complaining about, it simply > doesn't work the way one expects (and hopes). I'm not sure I understood correctly what you mean, but for me it works this way: "Add collection" does not mean "create collection", so if I want two collections in my /.../pictures/ folder I create two folders in there which will contain the albums, one named "spring", the other "fall". After that I open digikam's settings and click on "add collection" to select one folder, then I add another collection and select the second folder. That way digikam now shows both collections and each of them can have multiple albums. If I click on "add collection" the window title reads something like "select the folder that contains your collection", which seems to mediate exactly what needs to be done. I did not try yet, but if you have a collection that includes /.../pictures, it does not make sense to have another collection pointing to /.../pictures/spring, as that one would already be contained in the former. Sven _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:01:59PM +0100, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> Am Samstag, 14. November 2009 09:57:17 schrieb Chris G: > > What I (and I think the OP) want to do is to have independent digikam > > 'collections' (if that's what you want to call them) at the top level. > > > > When I go into the Configure Digikam menu it looks like it's offering > > me a way to do this and it's certainly what I *thought* was being > > offered by this 'new' ability that 0.10.0 is supposed to have. > > > > It shows me my existing directory tree under Local Collections so > > under that I see a branch with /home/chris/pictures. Then there's a > > button which says "Add Collection", it seems obvious to me that if I > > click on that button I should be able to add another collection at the > > same level as /home/chris/pictures and be able to select *either* > > /home/chris/pictures or the new collection. But it doesn't work. > > > > I'm pretty sure this is what the OP was complaining about, it simply > > doesn't work the way one expects (and hopes). > > I'm not sure I understood correctly what you mean, but for me it works this > way: > > "Add collection" does not mean "create collection", so if I want two > collections in my /.../pictures/ folder I create two folders in there which > will contain the albums, one named "spring", the other "fall". > computer sense surely Add means the same as Create doesn't it? > After that I open digikam's settings and click on "add collection" to select > one folder, then I add another collection and select the second folder. That > way digikam now shows both collections and each of them can have multiple > albums. > Which doesn't do anything that I couldn't already do. It's simply another directory/folder under the digikam top-level. The only extra function it provides is the ability to have the new 'collection' in an un-connected hierarchy which you can do anyway with a symbolic link. What I want to be able to do is to start up digikam seeing only one or the other collection and *nothing* else. I want totally separate collections where I won't be distracted by any other ones I may have. > If I click on "add collection" the window title reads something like "select > the folder that contains your collection", which seems to mediate exactly what > needs to be done. > Yes, but it doesn't produce what I want. :-) > I did not try yet, but if you have a collection that includes /.../pictures, > it does not make sense to have another collection pointing to > /.../pictures/spring, as that one would already be contained in the former. > It does in fact allow you to have more than one collection with the same name, I managed to create a second 'pictures' collection so that I actually had two 'pictures' hierarchies under My Albums. I think what I would really like is the ability to remove "My Albums" completely, it's superfluous and wastes space. I *know* they're my albums, who else's could they be? Then I want to be able to start digikam up showing different top-level directories/folders/collections called (say):- family pictures pictures for sale personal with each being totally independent, i.e. if you're looking at 'pictures for sale' you can't see 'family pictures' or 'personal' up at the top level. You could either select which you want when digikam is started, i.e. it would present a list of collections to select from, or you could specify on the command line. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Le 15/11/2009 12:31, Chris G a écrit :
> What I want to be able to do is to start up digikam seeing only one or > the other collection and *nothing* else. I want totally separate > collections where I won't be distracted by any other ones I may have. ok, did you see there is a line to configure the path to the database? changing database should do what you want (not tried) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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> digikam-1.0.0.-rc6. I have one album created: /opt/camera/summer-2009. > Under that album I can access all sub-folders. > > Now I want to create a new folder : /opt/camera/fall-2009. I can create > it as a sub-folder in summer-2009, but I can't create it as a top-level > folder. When I highlight "My Albums" the option to create a new folder > is grayed out. > > What am I missing? Create a new directory eg /home/../album2. Go to Settings/Configure/Collections, click on 'add collection' and select /home/../album2. Now when you start Digikam you can select which album you want, the other will be 'hidden'. I think this may be as good as it gets. Anything beyond this would require changing the config file. > > sean HTH Jim _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 01:32:01PM +0000, Jim MacLeod wrote:
> sean darcy wrote: > > > digikam-1.0.0.-rc6. I have one album created: /opt/camera/summer-2009. > > Under that album I can access all sub-folders. > > > > Now I want to create a new folder : /opt/camera/fall-2009. I can create > > it as a sub-folder in summer-2009, but I can't create it as a top-level > > folder. When I highlight "My Albums" the option to create a new folder > > is grayed out. > > > > What am I missing? > > Create a new directory eg /home/../album2. > Go to Settings/Configure/Collections, click on 'add collection' and select > /home/../album2. > > Now when you start Digikam you can select which album you want, the other > will be 'hidden'. I think this may be as good as it gets. Anything beyond > this would require changing the config file. > > > > sean That's not how it seems to work for me, if it *was* how it worked I'd be very happy! I have my digikam with its top level album in /home/chris/pictures. If I add "/tmp/pictures" and select that in "Add Collection" I just get *both* /home/chris/pictures and /tmp/pictures in My Albums. I can't select either /home/chris/pictures or /tmp/pictures when digikam is started and have the other hidden. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Chris G wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 01:32:01PM +0000, Jim MacLeod wrote: >> sean darcy wrote: >> >> > digikam-1.0.0.-rc6. I have one album created: /opt/camera/summer-2009. >> > Under that album I can access all sub-folders. >> > >> > Now I want to create a new folder : /opt/camera/fall-2009. I can create >> > it as a sub-folder in summer-2009, but I can't create it as a top-level >> > folder. When I highlight "My Albums" the option to create a new folder >> > is grayed out. >> > >> > What am I missing? >> >> Create a new directory eg /home/../album2. >> Go to Settings/Configure/Collections, click on 'add collection' and >> select /home/../album2. >> >> Now when you start Digikam you can select which album you want, the other >> will be 'hidden'. I think this may be as good as it gets. Anything beyond >> this would require changing the config file. >> > >> > sean > > That's not how it seems to work for me, if it *was* how it worked I'd > be very happy! > > I have my digikam with its top level album in /home/chris/pictures. > If I add "/tmp/pictures" and select that in "Add Collection" I just > get *both* /home/chris/pictures and /tmp/pictures in My Albums. > > I can't select either /home/chris/pictures or /tmp/pictures when > digikam is started and have the other hidden. > totally individual config files so that there was no link at all between them. However that need some method of activating the relevant config file before starting digikam. Sorry I cant be more helpful Jim _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 02:36:33PM +0000, Jim MacLeod wrote:
> Chris G wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 01:32:01PM +0000, Jim MacLeod wrote: > >> sean darcy wrote: > >> > >> > digikam-1.0.0.-rc6. I have one album created: /opt/camera/summer-2009. > >> > Under that album I can access all sub-folders. > >> > > >> > Now I want to create a new folder : /opt/camera/fall-2009. I can create > >> > it as a sub-folder in summer-2009, but I can't create it as a top-level > >> > folder. When I highlight "My Albums" the option to create a new folder > >> > is grayed out. > >> > > >> > What am I missing? > >> > >> Create a new directory eg /home/../album2. > >> Go to Settings/Configure/Collections, click on 'add collection' and > >> select /home/../album2. > >> > >> Now when you start Digikam you can select which album you want, the other > >> will be 'hidden'. I think this may be as good as it gets. Anything beyond > >> this would require changing the config file. > >> > > >> > sean > > > > That's not how it seems to work for me, if it *was* how it worked I'd > > be very happy! > > > > I have my digikam with its top level album in /home/chris/pictures. > > If I add "/tmp/pictures" and select that in "Add Collection" I just > > get *both* /home/chris/pictures and /tmp/pictures in My Albums. > > > > I can't select either /home/chris/pictures or /tmp/pictures when > > digikam is started and have the other hidden. > > > I'm guessing that the only way to truly separate them would be to have two > totally individual config files so that there was no link at all between > them. However that need some method of activating the relevant config file > before starting digikam. Changing the config file has its problems - hence my recent E-Mail about it. I have come up with a fairly reasonable solution - launch digikam from a script which changes the HOME environment variable before running digikam. E.g. I have:- #!/bin/bash export HOME=/home/chris/photo2 /usr/bin/digikam Digikam then starts up and creates a new KDE configuration hierarchy in /home/chris/photo2 giving me a completely independent digikam which still has its configuration and data in my home directory. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Chris G wrote:
> > I have come up with a fairly reasonable solution - launch digikam from > a script which changes the HOME environment variable before running > digikam. E.g. I have:- > > #!/bin/bash > > export HOME=/home/chris/photo2 > > /usr/bin/digikam > > Digikam then starts up and creates a new KDE configuration hierarchy > in /home/chris/photo2 giving me a completely independent digikam which > still has its configuration and data in my home directory. > digikam --database-directory <dir>. haven't tried, but would that do the same as your script? _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 04:15:07PM +0000, Jim MacLeod wrote:
> Chris G wrote: > > > > I have come up with a fairly reasonable solution - launch digikam from > > a script which changes the HOME environment variable before running > > digikam. E.g. I have:- > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > export HOME=/home/chris/photo2 > > > > /usr/bin/digikam > > > > Digikam then starts up and creates a new KDE configuration hierarchy > > in /home/chris/photo2 giving me a completely independent digikam which > > still has its configuration and data in my home directory. > > > Late thought - starting digikam from konsole with > digikam --database-directory <dir>. > haven't tried, but would that do the same as your script? > -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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