More on Windows and digiKam

[Paul Verizzo]

Gilles said: "This subject is currently discussed in kde-windows ML. KDE-windows

team is resurrected by me. I posted a lots of message about the
unmaintained KDE packages for windows...

Look in this ML archive for details, especially the last post... It's
a tedious subject : how to anage a big project as to port KDE under
windows with a small team..."

Presuming the Windows KDE team can keep things more current (it's now 9 months since an update for digiKam), they load the most basic installation with dozens of programs that I have no need for, nor probably do most other Windows users.  After installing the Windows compiled version I deleted my KDE folder and then cleaned the registry.  It took about twelve minutes just to DELETE files!  To be honest, I don't know why any Windows user wants or needs KDE (except for digiKam, of course!)  It is a huge resource user, even in the compiled version.

So far I don't use much in the digiKam feature set other than basic corrections and tagging.  But I can tell you that subjectively the compiled for Windows version is MUCH more stable than the KDE for Windows versions. I can also let it sit unused for a couple of days now.  Upon clicking in the taskbar, it does take a minute to wake up, but then there it is, rested and ready to go.

BTW, didn't I read that digiKam is now able to read 48 bit images?  I don't seem to have that ability.  Did I make that up?

Thanks to the team for a great product!  

Paul 

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: (OT?): EXIF information in Nikon extracted EXIF thumbnail
      images. (D7000, EXIF image plugin ???) (Linuxguy123)
   2.  xmp file or sidecards (Ozzy)
   3. Re: xmp file or sidecards (Gilles Caulier)
   4. Re: Digikam participation in KDE's Google Code-In?
      (Gilles Caulier)
   5. Re: Digikam participation in KDE's Google Code-In?
      (Julien Narboux)
   6. Re: Digikam participation in KDE's Google Code-In?
      (Gilles Caulier)
   7. Re: Digikam participation in KDE's Google Code-In? (Peter Shute)
   8. Re: Digikam participation in KDE's Google Code-In?
      (Gilles Caulier)
   9. Re: Digikam participation in KDE's Google Code-In?
      (Julien Narboux)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:34:47 -0700
From: Linuxguy123 [hidden email]
Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: (OT?): EXIF information in Nikon
	extracted EXIF thumbnail images. (D7000, EXIF image plugin ???)
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On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 08:56 +0100, Gilles Caulier wrote:
  

2010/11/4 Linuxguy123 [hidden email]:
    

Why not to shot in RAW+JPEG ?
    

Because it takes more memory space on the camera storage card and its
slower.



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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:42:58 -0700
From: Ozzy [hidden email]
Subject: [Digikam-users]  xmp file or sidecards
To: [hidden email]
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Does DigiKam use separate xmp files (sidecards) like some other programs
(Lr, darktable, etc)?
I think all the info generate during the use of DigiKam is stored in the .db
and writing to the file is optional.

I ask this question because my collection is growing and I fear that if the
.db gets corrupted and I haven't written the tags, captions, etc to the
files I will loose everything.

Thanks.
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 07:24:10 +0100
From: Gilles Caulier [hidden email]
Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: xmp file or sidecards
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XMP sidecar are managed by future digiKam 2.0.0 (beta)

Gilles Caulier

2010/11/8 Ozzy [hidden email]:
  

Does DigiKam use separate xmp files (sidecards) like some other programs
(Lr, darktable, etc)?
I think all the info generate during the use of DigiKam is stored in the .db
and writing to the file is optional.

I ask this question because my collection is growing and I fear that if the
.db gets corrupted and I haven't written the tags, captions, etc to the
files I will loose everything.

Thanks.

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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:53:06 +0100
From: Gilles Caulier [hidden email]
Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: Digikam participation in KDE's Google
	Code-In?
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2010/11/6 Vivek Prakash [hidden email]

  

Hello Digikam developers and users,

I wanted to let you know a potential opportunity to leverage external
resources to improve Digikam.  This might be useful with Digikam 2.0 on the
horizon. It's worth a look.

Vivek

    

Why not... We must talk about some taks to do in digiKam, not too complex.

The thead is open. let's go to proposals...

Gilles Caulier
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:47:31 +0100
From: Julien Narboux [hidden email]
Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: Digikam participation in KDE's Google
	Code-In?
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Some proposals:

- updating the DigiKam handbook
- creating in depth comparisons between DigiKam and other software

Julien

Le 08/11/2010 08:53, Gilles Caulier a ?crit :
  

2010/11/6 Vivek Prakash <[hidden email] [hidden email]>

    Hello Digikam developers and users,

    I wanted to let you know a potential opportunity to leverage
    external resources to improve Digikam.  This might be useful with
    Digikam 2.0 on the horizon. It's worth a look.

    Vivek


Why not... We must talk about some taks to do in digiKam, not too complex.

The thead is open. let's go to proposals...

Gilles Caulier


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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 09:52:21 +0100
From: Gilles Caulier [hidden email]
Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: Digikam participation in KDE's Google
	Code-In?
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
	power of	open source [hidden email]
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For me, improved my windows install setup (currently experimental) :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/digikam1.6.0-kde4.4.exe

currently created with 7zip. This archiver can be scripted, and
applications must be created on windows desktop and menu.

Also, i would a little process to patch registry base to add digiKam
in application list from system dialog when an USB device is plugged.

Gilles Caulier

2010/11/8 Julien Narboux [hidden email]:
  

Some proposals:

- updating the DigiKam handbook
- creating in depth comparisons between DigiKam and other software

Julien

Le 08/11/2010 08:53, Gilles Caulier a ?crit :
    

2010/11/6 Vivek Prakash <[hidden email] [hidden email]>

? ? Hello Digikam developers and users,

? ? I wanted to let you know a potential opportunity to leverage
? ? external resources to improve Digikam. ?This might be useful with
? ? Digikam 2.0 on the horizon. It's worth a look.

? ? Vivek


Why not... We must talk about some taks to do in digiKam, not too complex.

The thead is open. let's go to proposals...

Gilles Caulier


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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 20:19:55 +1100
From: Peter Shute [hidden email]
Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: Digikam participation in KDE's Google
	Code-In?
To: 'digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
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Is there anything they could do to assist with getting new versions of digiKam distributed to Windows users faster? Or is that too complicated, or even impossible?

  

-----Original Message-----
From: Gilles Caulier [[hidden email]] 
Sent: Monday, 8 November 2010 7:52 PM
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional 
with the power of open source
Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: Digikam participation in KDE's 
Google Code-In?

For me, improved my windows install setup (currently experimental) :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/digikam1.6.0-kde4.4.exe

currently created with 7zip. This archiver can be scripted, 
and applications must be created on windows desktop and menu.

Also, i would a little process to patch registry base to add 
digiKam in application list from system dialog when an USB 
device is plugged.

Gilles Caulier

2010/11/8 Julien Narboux [hidden email]:
    

Some proposals:

- updating the DigiKam handbook
- creating in depth comparisons between DigiKam and other software

Julien

Le 08/11/2010 08:53, Gilles Caulier a ?crit :
      

2010/11/6 Vivek Prakash <[hidden email] 
[hidden email]>

? ? Hello Digikam developers and users,

? ? I wanted to let you know a potential opportunity to leverage
? ? external resources to improve Digikam. ?This might be 
        

useful with
    

? ? Digikam 2.0 on the horizon. It's worth a look.

? ? Vivek


Why not... We must talk about some taks to do in digiKam, 
        

not too complex.
    

The thead is open. let's go to proposals...

Gilles Caulier


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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 10:33:42 +0100
From: Gilles Caulier [hidden email]
Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: Digikam participation in KDE's Google
	Code-In?
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2010/11/8 Peter Shute [hidden email]:
  

Is there anything they could do to assist with getting new versions of digiKam distributed to Windows users faster? Or is that too complicated, or even impossible?
    

This subject is currently discussed in kde-windows ML. KDE-windows
team is resurrected by me. I posted a lots of message about the
unmaintained KDE packages for windows...

Look in this ML archive for details, especially the last post... It's
a tedious subject : how to anage a big project as to port KDE under
windows with a small team...

Gilles Caulier

  

-----Original Message-----
From: Gilles Caulier [[hidden email]]
Sent: Monday, 8 November 2010 7:52 PM
To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional
with the power of open source
Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: Digikam participation in KDE's
Google Code-In?

For me, improved my windows install setup (currently experimental) :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/digikam1.6.0-kde4.4.exe

currently created with 7zip. This archiver can be scripted,
and applications must be created on windows desktop and menu.

Also, i would a little process to patch registry base to add
digiKam in application list from system dialog when an USB
device is plugged.

Gilles Caulier

2010/11/8 Julien Narboux [hidden email]:
      

Some proposals:

- updating the DigiKam handbook
- creating in depth comparisons between DigiKam and other software

Julien

Le 08/11/2010 08:53, Gilles Caulier a ?crit :
        

2010/11/6 Vivek Prakash <[hidden email]
[hidden email]>

? ? Hello Digikam developers and users,

? ? I wanted to let you know a potential opportunity to leverage
? ? external resources to improve Digikam. ?This might be
          

useful with
      

? ? Digikam 2.0 on the horizon. It's worth a look.

? ? Vivek


Why not... We must talk about some taks to do in digiKam,
          

not too complex.
      

The thead is open. let's go to proposals...

Gilles Caulier


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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:55:35 +0100
From: Julien Narboux [hidden email]
Subject: [Digikam-users] Re: Digikam participation in KDE's Google
	Code-In?
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Gilles,

I think it is a very good idea, maybe nsis could be used instead of a 
simple zip:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

It is easy to add icons to the start menu, to register the application 
into windows etc...

Julien Narboux

Le 08/11/2010 09:52, Gilles Caulier a ?crit :
  

For me, improved my windows install setup (currently experimental) :

http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/digikam1.6.0-kde4.4.exe

currently created with 7zip. This archiver can be scripted, and
applications must be created on windows desktop and menu.

Also, i would a little process to patch registry base to add digiKam
in application list from system dialog when an USB device is plugged.

Gilles Caulier

2010/11/8 Julien Narboux[hidden email]:
   
    

Some proposals:

- updating the DigiKam handbook
- creating in depth comparisons between DigiKam and other software

Julien

Le 08/11/2010 08:53, Gilles Caulier a ?crit :
     
      

2010/11/6 Vivek Prakash<[hidden email][hidden email]>

     Hello Digikam developers and users,

     I wanted to let you know a potential opportunity to leverage
     external resources to improve Digikam.  This might be useful with
     Digikam 2.0 on the horizon. It's worth a look.

     Vivek


Why not... We must talk about some taks to do in digiKam, not too complex.

The thead is open. let's go to proposals...

Gilles Caulier


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