Running Digikam on a LiveCD
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I'm trying to set up a customized Fedora LiveCD including Digikam, that people will be able to use on PC or Mac computers (they won't have Linux installed).
When running the first tests with Digikam 1.9.0, I realised that users will have to redo the initial Digikam configuration each time they want to work on the system. Is there a way to save these settings somewhere, and use them each time Digikam is launched? And the photos will be uploaded on a USB-key; is it possible to put the Digikam database on the same key? Thanks for your answers, Marie-Noëlle -- Une galerie photos, un blog ... pourquoi pas ? Webmaster en herbe Parcourez les Cévennes à ma façon : Cévennes Plurielles Et toutes mes autres publications à partir de ma page d'accueil générale _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
Re: Running Digikam on a LiveCD
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2011/4/23 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>:
> I'm trying to set up a customized Fedora LiveCD including Digikam, that > people will be able to use on PC or Mac computers (they won't have Linux > installed). > When running the first tests with Digikam 1.9.0, I realised that users will > have to redo the initial Digikam configuration each time they want to work > on the system. > Is there a way to save these settings somewhere, and use them each time > Digikam is launched? > And the photos will be uploaded on a USB-key; is it possible to put the > Digikam database on the same key? As the collection will be mounted in local, not through the network, it's fine. With a SQLite DB the restriction is to host DB file on a network file system, as NFS, SMB, etc... where DB transactions and queries cannot be done properly. It's a limitation of sqlite. http://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q5 On a local file system, there is no problem. Gilles Caulier _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Thanks for your answer, Gilles.
And about the settings, are they saved in - or in the same place as - the DB? So, once the collection has been started, the user will find his previous settings each time he reboots? Marie-Noëlle 2011/4/23 Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> 2011/4/23 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>: -- Une galerie photos, un blog ... pourquoi pas ? Webmaster en herbe Parcourez les Cévennes à ma façon : Cévennes Plurielles Et toutes mes autres publications à partir de ma page d'accueil générale _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
Re: Running Digikam on a LiveCD
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2011/4/23 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>:
> Thanks for your answer, Gilles. > > And about the settings, are they saved in - or in the same place as - the > DB? So, once the collection has been started, the user will find his > previous settings each time he reboots? > > Marie-Noëlle No. digiKam/Showfoto/kipi settings are saved in rc text file in the home repository. Look in you Linux at this place : ~/.kde4/share/config/digikamrc ~/.kde4/share/config/showfotorc ~/.kde4/share/config/kipirc Also, there are some XML settings files stored in these directories : ~/.kde4/share/app/digikam ~/.kde4/share/app/showfoto ~/.kde4/share/app/kipi Gilles Caulier > > 2011/4/23 Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> >> >> 2011/4/23 Marie-Noëlle Augendre <[hidden email]>: >> > I'm trying to set up a customized Fedora LiveCD including Digikam, that >> > people will be able to use on PC or Mac computers (they won't have Linux >> > installed). >> > When running the first tests with Digikam 1.9.0, I realised that users >> > will >> > have to redo the initial Digikam configuration each time they want to >> > work >> > on the system. >> > Is there a way to save these settings somewhere, and use them each time >> > Digikam is launched? >> > And the photos will be uploaded on a USB-key; is it possible to put the >> > Digikam database on the same key? >> >> As the collection will be mounted in local, not through the network, it's >> fine. >> >> With a SQLite DB the restriction is to host DB file on a network file >> system, as NFS, SMB, etc... where DB transactions and queries cannot >> be done properly. It's a limitation of sqlite. >> >> http://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q5 >> >> On a local file system, there is no problem. >> >> Gilles Caulier >> _______________________________________________ >> Digikam-users mailing list >> [hidden email] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users > > > > -- > Une galerie photos, un blog ... pourquoi pas ? Webmaster en herbe > > Parcourez les Cévennes à ma façon : Cévennes Plurielles > > Et toutes mes autres publications à partir de ma page d'accueil générale > > > _______________________________________________ > Digikam-users mailing list > [hidden email] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users > > Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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I apologize for having been so long to provide an answer, but things have been quite hectic for the past weeks, and this part of the project was only one of the minor things I had to do.
Anyway, I ended up with a USB-key on which I've created 2 partitions with Gparted: - one fat32 of about 2Gio for the Live-Fedora system - the remaining part formatted in ext4, being available for data. The .iso Live system image is created on the key with the following command: # livecd-iso-to-disk --home-size-mb 64 <name-of-your-iso-file-system> <destination-unmounted-device> This setting provides 64Mb of persistent /home for the liveuser, that allows to keep all the settings and customization (for Gnome, Digikam, etc.) from one session to the other. The first time I boot from the key, I launch Digikam and set up the database and first collection on the 'data' partition of the USB-key; the key is then ready tgo be used by an 'end-user'. This seems to work pretty well, but hasn't been used in production yet. And keep in mind this USB-based Digikam will be used only for little local collections for quite a short time, as they will be centralized periodically onto a central database on disk. My purpose here was to provide 10 to 15 team members scattered 'on the field' with a system ready to use so they can upload their own pictures and do some tagging before transferring their data to the team manager every couple of weeks. This will be used in the 'real life' pretty soon. I'll let you know if I have to change or adapt something. Marie-Noëlle 2011/4/23 David Vincent-Jones <[hidden email]> Marie-Noëlle; -- Une galerie photos, un blog ... pourquoi pas ? Webmaster en herbe Parcourez les Cévennes à ma façon : Cévennes Plurielles Et toutes mes autres publications à partir de ma page d'accueil générale _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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