Using Digikam as a 3D asset manager need help!

[maruf]

hello,  

I am a new user of Digikam. basically, I am not a photographer, not a
developer I am mainly a 3d artist. I search my resources [ie, models,
textures] based on photo references. Previously I am using google Picasa for
this need. You know google had stopped support this many years ago. also, it
doesn't Support Network storage. Then I Found Digkam who support NAS.

Guys, I badly need some features which are really really essential to manage
my project. Is it possible to add this features?

-> when I click "open in file manager" by selecting any image I need the
image remain selected to the explorer.

-> when I search and found any image using search features of Digikam. There
is no option in the digikam to locate that image.

Thanks in advance
Maruf




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[AndriusWild]

I think digiKam isn't capable of doing this at the moment. If you are on a linux distro you might be able to figure out a bash script that will do it. In that case you would right click on the image - open with - your script.sh 

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-------- Original message --------

From: maruf <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-09-08 7:03 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: [hidden email]

Subject: Using Digikam as a 3D asset manager need help!

hello, 

I am a new user of Digikam. basically, I am not a photographer, not a
developer I am mainly a 3d artist. I search my resources [ie, models,
textures] based on photo references. Previously I am using google Picasa for
this need. You know google had stopped support this many years ago. also, it
doesn't Support Network storage. Then I Found Digkam who support NAS.

Guys, I badly need some features which are really really essential to manage
my project. Is it possible to add this features?

-> when I click "open in file manager" by selecting any image I need the
image remain selected to the explorer.

-> when I search and found any image using search features of Digikam. There
is no option in the digikam to locate that image.

Thanks in advance
Maruf




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[Remco Viëtor]

On vendredi 8 septembre 2017 15:03:57 CEST maruf wrote:

> hello,
>
> I am a new user of Digikam. basically, I am not a photographer, not a
> developer I am mainly a 3d artist. I search my resources [ie, models,
> textures] based on photo references. Previously I am using google Picasa for
> this need. You know google had stopped support this many years ago. also,
> it doesn't Support Network storage. Then I Found Digkam who support NAS.
>
> Guys, I badly need some features which are really really essential to manage
> my project. Is it possible to add this features?

That will depend on the developers. As they are unpaid volunteers, no
guarantees. Try filing a wish on KDE Bugzilla.
 
> -> when I click "open in file manager" by selecting any image I need the
> image remain selected to the explorer.
Where do you see that option? I don't seem to have that available.

> -> when I search and found any image using search features of Digikam. There
> is no option in the digikam to locate that image.

When I look at search results, the results are grouped by directory, with the
path shown at the top of each section. OK, the path starts with "Albums/" but
I know what that represents.
Try (from the menu bar) "View"->"Group Images"->"By Album".

Remco

[Tobias Margiani]

Hi,

 

> -> when I click "open in file manager" by selecting any image I need the

> image remain selected to the explorer.

 

After some trials I came up with the following solution which works at least on Linux with KDE (and Dolphin). Copy the attached desktop file into

"/home/<your username>/.local/share/applications/". Now you can right click on your selected images in digiKam and chose "Open With" -> "Select in Dolphin" which should open up dolphin with the images selected. (You may need to change the "MimeType=..." line to add the file types you are using.)

 

> -> when I search and found any image using search features of Digikam. There

> is no option in the digikam to locate that image.

 

If you right click on an image in the search results and choose "Go To" -> "Album" Digikam will show the album (folder) the image is in and (at least sometimes) also selects the right image.

Alternatively, you can see the path in the Properties panel on the right.

Finally, you could open the file manager the same way as I described above.

 

I hope this helps.

 

Best,

Tobias

 

[AndriusWild]

That is exactly what I needed. Thanks for sharing !

(I wish it worked in MATE though... )

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-------- Original message --------

From: Tobias Margiani <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-09-09 10:23 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: Using Digikam as a 3D asset manager need help!

Hi,

 

> -> when I click "open in file manager" by selecting any image I need the

> image remain selected to the explorer.

 

After some trials I came up with the following solution which works at least on Linux with KDE (and Dolphin). Copy the attached desktop file into

"/home/<your username>/.local/share/applications/". Now you can right click on your selected images in digiKam and chose "Open With" -> "Select in Dolphin" which should open up dolphin with the images selected. (You may need to change the "MimeType=..." line to add the file types you are using.)

 

> -> when I search and found any image using search features of Digikam. There

> is no option in the digikam to locate that image.

 

If you right click on an image in the search results and choose "Go To" -> "Album" Digikam will show the album (folder) the image is in and (at least sometimes) also selects the right image.

Alternatively, you can see the path in the Properties panel on the right.

Finally, you could open the file manager the same way as I described above.

 

I hope this helps.

 

Best,

Tobias

 

[maruf]

thanks for the help. Sorry, i was lost the forum URL. that's why I can't log
in here earlier. just found by searching email.

I am windows 10. Is there any way using this solution to the windows.

thanks again!

maruf





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[AndriusWild]

Probably not at the moment. Unless there is a way in linux to create custom menu linked to a custom script.

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-------- Original message --------

From: maruf <[hidden email]>

Date: 2017-09-14 5:42 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: [hidden email]

Subject: Re: Using Digikam as a 3D asset manager need help!

thanks for the help. Sorry, i was lost the forum URL. that's why I can't log
in here earlier. just found by searching email.

I am windows 10. Is there any way using this solution to the windows.

thanks again!

maruf





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[AndriusWild]

Tobias,
Thanks for posting the solution it works just fine on systems with KDE
desktop.
For non KDE users I found another solution:

1. Create LocateInFileManager.sh:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

for f in "$@"; do
dbus-send --session --type=method_call  
--dest="org.freedesktop.FileManager1"     "/org/freedesktop/FileManager1"    
"org.freedesktop.FileManager1.ShowItems" array:string:"file:"${f}""    
string:""
done
exit

2. Make it executable

3. digikam - right click - open with - /path/to/LocateInFileManager.sh

Tested on Mint MATE (file manager - Caja)



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