Several Questions

[Thomas Güttler]

Hi,

I have about 16,000 photos in the directory structure YYYY/MM/DD/.
I use digikam 0.9.3

1. Starting digikam takes too long. Will the check for new or missing
images be done in the background in newer versions?

2. It would be very nice if you could tag directories like files and
with the same (nested) catalog of keywords. Example: 2009/02/01 contains
pictures of skiing with friend FOO. A tag on the directory means
FOO was there. A tag on the one image means FOO can be seen on the
picture. I am lazy and would tag only directories in the first run.

3. digikam seems to always create 256x256 thumbnails, even if you
display the previews smaller then 128. My old application used 128x128
and I discovered, that these thumbnails were not loaded, but new ones
got created. Is this intended?

4. How do you tag a lot of pictures? I can type with ten fingers, and
want to avoid to use the mouse. Is auto completion possible?
Example: Tag "Familiy/Till" with auto completion I only want to type
"till" or even only "til" (if this is unique) and the tag "Familiy/Till"
should be set.

5. Which database based web galeries are supported? If I had more time,
I would write a django web front end.

6. I run ubuntu LTS what do you need to do to get a more recent digikam
version?

  Thomas

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On Monday 23 February 2009 22:00:09 Thomas Guettler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have about 16,000 photos in the directory structure YYYY/MM/DD/.
> I use digikam 0.9.3

Try to update to newer version 0.9.5rc is very stable. Even better would be
0.10rc2 - also stable despite "rc" designation. But you need KDE4 for that.

> 1. Starting digikam takes too long. Will the check for new or missing
> images be done in the background in newer versions?

Start of 0.10 is faster in that field. Unfortunately Marble is using that time
for its own purposes...

> 2. It would be very nice if you could tag directories like files and
> with the same (nested) catalog of keywords. Example: 2009/02/01 contains
> pictures of skiing with friend FOO. A tag on the directory means
> FOO was there. A tag on the one image means FOO can be seen on the
> picture. I am lazy and would tag only directories in the first run.

For flat categorization you can use... Album categories.

Man, I remember times when digiKam couldn't handle nested *folders*, now you
want nested everything. Get off my lawn! ;)

> 3. digikam seems to always create 256x256 thumbnails, even if you
> display the previews smaller then 128. My old application used 128x128
> and I discovered, that these thumbnails were not loaded, but new ones
> got created. Is this intended?

Yes. Create thumbnails one time for faster displaying later. Small thumbnails
were recreated probably because paths to images were changed.

> 4. How do you tag a lot of pictures? I can type with ten fingers, and
> want to avoid to use the mouse. Is auto completion possible?
> Example: Tag "Familiy/Till" with auto completion I only want to type
> "till" or even only "til" (if this is unique) and the tag "Familiy/Till"
> should be set.

I later versions (0.9.5? I don't think it was available in 0.9.4) tag creation
and assignation was improved.

> 5. Which database based web galeries are supported? If I had more time,
> I would write a django web front end.
>
gallery for sure; maybe others

m.
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2009/2/24 Mikolaj Machowski <[hidden email]>:

> On Monday 23 February 2009 22:00:09 Thomas Guettler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have about 16,000 photos in the directory structure YYYY/MM/DD/.
>> I use digikam 0.9.3
>
> Try to update to newer version 0.9.5rc is very stable. Even better would be
> 0.10rc2 - also stable despite "rc" designation. But you need KDE4 for that.
>
>> 1. Starting digikam takes too long. Will the check for new or missing
>> images be done in the background in newer versions?
>
> Start of 0.10 is faster in that field. Unfortunately Marble is using that time
> for its own purposes...
>
>> 2. It would be very nice if you could tag directories like files and
>> with the same (nested) catalog of keywords. Example: 2009/02/01 contains
>> pictures of skiing with friend FOO. A tag on the directory means
>> FOO was there. A tag on the one image means FOO can be seen on the
>> picture. I am lazy and would tag only directories in the first run.
>
> For flat categorization you can use... Album categories.
>
> Man, I remember times when digiKam couldn't handle nested *folders*, now you
> want nested everything. Get off my lawn! ;)
>
>> 3. digikam seems to always create 256x256 thumbnails, even if you
>> display the previews smaller then 128. My old application used 128x128
>> and I discovered, that these thumbnails were not loaded, but new ones
>> got created. Is this intended?
>
> Yes. Create thumbnails one time for faster displaying later. Small thumbnails
> were recreated probably because paths to images were changed.
>
>> 4. How do you tag a lot of pictures? I can type with ten fingers, and
>> want to avoid to use the mouse. Is auto completion possible?
>> Example: Tag "Familiy/Till" with auto completion I only want to type
>> "till" or even only "til" (if this is unique) and the tag "Familiy/Till"
>> should be set.
>
> I later versions (0.9.5? I don't think it was available in 0.9.4) tag creation
> and assignation was improved.

yes, since 0.9.4.

Gilles
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[Thomas Güttler]

>> 2. It would be very nice if you could tag directories like files and
>> with the same (nested) catalog of keywords. Example: 2009/02/01 contains
>> pictures of skiing with friend FOO. A tag on the directory means
>> FOO was there. A tag on the one image means FOO can be seen on the
>> picture. I am lazy and would tag only directories in the first run.
>
> For flat categorization you can use... Album categories.
>
> Man, I remember times when digiKam couldn't handle nested *folders*, now you
> want nested everything. Get off my lawn! ;)

Hi,

Yes, I know there is still a long way to go. I don't only want to tag
directories, but even audio and video files or any kind of file. All
with one catalog of nested tags.

But that is a bigger problem, that
can not be solved with digikam. Something like this should be portable
(kde+gnome).

  Thomas
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On Tuesday 24 February 2009 21:36:28 Thomas Guettler wrote:
> Yes, I know there is still a long way to go. I don't only want to tag
> directories, but even audio and video files or any kind of file. All
> with one catalog of nested tags.
>
> But that is a bigger problem, that
> can not be solved with digikam. Something like this should be portable
> (kde+gnome).

There are beginnings of such things with dolphin and nepomuk.

m.
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