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Hi,
I've been using digiKam more intensively recently, and I just wanted to say to you guys: You're fantastic. Really. I mean, I knew digiKam was a powerful tool, but the more I use it, the more I discover hidden gems and awesome features I would never have imagined would ever be available in a libre software. So, Thank you. Thank you for your work, your time and your dedication. You just rock. -- Guillaume Paumier _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Thanks Guillaume.
I always waiting to check and play with you code about wikimedia export tool (:=)))... Let's me hear when you will be ready to share this code in KDE svn for testing Cheer Gilles Caulier 2010/2/26 Guillaume Paumier <[hidden email]>: > Hi, > > I've been using digiKam more intensively recently, and I just wanted > to say to you guys: You're fantastic. Really. > > I mean, I knew digiKam was a powerful tool, but the more I use it, the > more I discover hidden gems and awesome features I would never have > imagined would ever be available in a libre software. > > So, Thank you. Thank you for your work, your time and your dedication. > You just rock. > > > -- > Guillaume Paumier > _______________________________________________ > 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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In reply to this post by Guillaume Paumier
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Guillaume Paumier
<[hidden email]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using digiKam more intensively recently, and I just wanted > to say to you guys: You're fantastic. Really. > > I mean, I knew digiKam was a powerful tool, but the more I use it, the > more I discover hidden gems and awesome features I would never have > imagined would ever be available in a libre software. > > So, Thank you. Thank you for your work, your time and your dedication. > You just rock. I agree with everything you said. Thanks to digiKam & KDE devs! _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 17:33 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Guillaume Paumier > <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been using digiKam more intensively recently, and I just wanted > > to say to you guys: You're fantastic. Really. > > > > I mean, I knew digiKam was a powerful tool, but the more I use it, the > > more I discover hidden gems and awesome features I would never have > > imagined would ever be available in a libre software. > > > > So, Thank you. Thank you for your work, your time and your dedication. > > You just rock. > > I agree with everything you said. Thanks to digiKam & KDE devs! +1 ! _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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> From: Linuxguy123 [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 March 2010 2:42 PM > To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional > with the power of open source > Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] You're awesome > > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 17:33 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Guillaume Paumier > > <[hidden email]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've been using digiKam more intensively recently, and I > just wanted > > > to say to you guys: You're fantastic. Really. > > > > > > I mean, I knew digiKam was a powerful tool, but the more > I use it, > > > the more I discover hidden gems and awesome features I > would never > > > have imagined would ever be available in a libre software. > > > > > > So, Thank you. Thank you for your work, your time and > your dedication. > > > You just rock. > > > > I agree with everything you said. Thanks to digiKam & KDE devs! > > +1 ! I agree too, and the website is also unusually helpful for an open source program, outstandingly so. I was at the end of my trial period for Lightroom when I started looking around for alternatives, and was very surprised to find free software that could do so much that Lightroom could do, and so well, better in some cases. I can see that one day it will be able to also do the few things Lightroom can do that it currently can't. But I have some reservations. My reservations are mainly about the distribution process. It seems like there are periods when the versions included with the various distributions are way out of date, and sometimes quite buggy. Getting a more recent version involves many hours and gigabytes of dowloading and compiling if you know how to do it, and many more days tracking down help with compilation errors if you don't. There are various extremely detailed lists of instructions around for compiling, but they're out of date and make little sense to the uninitiated. I worked my way through it, and got a new set of compilation instructions together. Next time I tried to update, I ran into different problems. I'm experienced enough with open source to not expect an easy run, but it just shouldn't be that hard. I used the relatively new KDE on Windows version, so I knew to expect a few extra troubles, but I see from various list postings that Linux users are having similar difficulties. I realise that the distribution problems, and even some of the bugs, are out of the control of the developers. They have little influence over what versions get included in distributions, and newer KDE releases in the distributions are sometimes incompatible. But until something is done about it, I consider digiKam to be an excellent but unstable program. If you happen to first install it when a good version is in the distribution, you're ok, if it isn't, you're in for trouble. I'm still keeping a copy of it running, and I'm staying on this list to keep abreast of developments, but for the time being I'm using Lightroom instead. _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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2010/3/4 Peter Shute <[hidden email]>:
>> From: Linuxguy123 [mailto:[hidden email]] >> Sent: Wednesday, 3 March 2010 2:42 PM >> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional >> with the power of open source >> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] You're awesome >> >> On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 17:33 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: >> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Guillaume Paumier >> > <[hidden email]> wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > I've been using digiKam more intensively recently, and I >> just wanted >> > > to say to you guys: You're fantastic. Really. >> > > >> > > I mean, I knew digiKam was a powerful tool, but the more >> I use it, >> > > the more I discover hidden gems and awesome features I >> would never >> > > have imagined would ever be available in a libre software. >> > > >> > > So, Thank you. Thank you for your work, your time and >> your dedication. >> > > You just rock. >> > >> > I agree with everything you said. Thanks to digiKam & KDE devs! >> >> +1 ! > > I agree too, and the website is also unusually helpful for an open source program, outstandingly so. I was at the end of my trial period for Lightroom when I started looking around for alternatives, and was very surprised to find free software that could do so much that Lightroom could do, and so well, better in some cases. I can see that one day it will be able to also do the few things Lightroom can do that it currently can't. > > But I have some reservations. > > My reservations are mainly about the distribution process. It seems like there are periods when the versions included with the various distributions are way out of date, and sometimes quite buggy. Getting a more recent version involves many hours and gigabytes of dowloading and compiling if you know how to do it, and many more days tracking down help with compilation errors if you don't. There are various extremely detailed lists of instructions around for compiling, but they're out of date and make little sense to the uninitiated. I worked my way through it, and got a new set of compilation instructions together. Next time I tried to update, I ran into different problems. > > I'm experienced enough with open source to not expect an easy run, but it just shouldn't be that hard. I used the relatively new KDE on Windows version, so I knew to expect a few extra troubles, but I see from various list postings that Linux users are having similar difficulties. > > I realise that the distribution problems, and even some of the bugs, are out of the control of the >developers. They have little influence over what versions get included in distributions, and newer KDE >releases in the distributions are sometimes incompatible. But until something is done about it, I consider >digiKam to be an excellent but unstable program. If you happen to first install it when a good version is in >the distribution, you're ok, if it isn't, you're in for trouble. I'm agree. this due of huge dependencies of digiKam with a lots of shared libs, the most coming from KDE4 core. Recently, after updating KDElibs with KDE 4.4.0, a lots of users crying about digiKam which crash in a lots of context. All have been due of bugs in KDirWatch API from KDElibs core. digiKam use KDirWatch to follow changes of folder contents from your HDD. Can you imagine the long list of bugs reports duplicated in bugzilla about this problem. Finally all have been fixed in KDE 4.4.1, just published few days ago. In general, and it's not only a feature of open source soft, i recommend to never use the first release of a major serie, as KDE 4.4.0, especially in production. Software need time to be stabilized. There is no other way. If you want to be more productive in software development, you need QA dept to run a lots of control, restrictions, procedures, and mechanisms to filtering all works before to release a huge software as KDE4. It's the same problem in industry where it's easy to apply QA, but this is a lead problem in open source where you cannot restrict as well all developers which have not payed to work ! As i'm working in computer science since a very long time, in industry and now in research, i know very well the problem. I'm trying to apply some QA mechanism in digiKam project, especially with bugzilla where we can follow development and progress, but it's not easy. Andy, Marcel, and Johannes as started to implement regression test programs to check digiKam core API, but it only work very well, in general, for non-gui code. GUI code need user interractions... Also, can you imagine that we rarely see developers in real life to talk about digiKam project. Open source is not industry. digiKam project is not LightRoom, and it's a big challenge for me. Since 2 years, we trying to organize a coding sprint in Europe between us. last one have been done by Marcel in Germany, and i will try to do the next one in France this year. To do that, we need money and sponsorship of course. It's not simple. My best Gilles Caulier _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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On Thursday 04 March 2010 08:41:35 Gilles Caulier wrote: > 2010/3/4 Peter Shute <[hidden email]>: > > As i'm working in computer science since a very long time, in industry > and now in research, i know very well the problem. I'm trying to apply > some QA mechanism in digiKam project, especially with bugzilla where > we can follow development and progress, but it's not easy. Andy, > Marcel, and Johannes as started to implement regression test programs > to check digiKam core API, but it only work very well, in general, for > non-gui code. GUI code need user interractions... > You can do GUI unit tests, but I guess they work best with single widgets. But it general this is possible. Andi _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Yes, surely there are tools to click the buttons for you.
But testing for problems is one thing, how will this help the user who has innocently upgraded KDE, for example, and then finds digiKam has become erratic? Do we need a webpage that lists which versions of digiKam work with which components, in order to warn users when not to upgrade them? Or do we make it easier for users to obtain a new version of digiKam with the fixes for the upgraded components? Either of these doesn't seem to be that simple. -------------------------- Sent using BlackBerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Andi Clemens <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> Sent: Fri Mar 05 05:57:24 2010 Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] You're awesome On Thursday 04 March 2010 08:41:35 Gilles Caulier wrote: > 2010/3/4 Peter Shute <[hidden email]>: > > As i'm working in computer science since a very long time, in industry > and now in research, i know very well the problem. I'm trying to apply > some QA mechanism in digiKam project, especially with bugzilla where > we can follow development and progress, but it's not easy. Andy, > Marcel, and Johannes as started to implement regression test programs > to check digiKam core API, but it only work very well, in general, for > non-gui code. GUI code need user interractions... > You can do GUI unit tests, but I guess they work best with single widgets. But it general this is possible. Andi _______________________________________________ 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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On 03/04/2010 08:13 PM, Peter Shute wrote:
> But testing for problems is one thing, how will this help the user > who has innocently upgraded KDE, for example, and then finds digiKam > has become erratic? Ideally, this would not happen because the regression tests would find problems in the way digikam interacts with KDElibs before KDElibs is released, making it possible to file bugs before the release. Currently, some people run digikam compiled against unreleased kdelibs versions ("trunk") but of course they just test some specific features, and not everything. Michael _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Dear all,
once I've opened digikam - editor I've found, that number of menu entries are missing. Including those like Sharpen or Brightness etc. See the attachment for the details - now my menu contains only the functions from plugins, but not the basic functions. I've tried usual steps: log in as different user, reinstall package using Package Manager, re-boot many times look for the help on various kde-related forums, I've even reinstalled the whole system but still, the same situation. I have no idea what to do and I appreciate any help. Kindest regards, Jaromir _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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