configuration location

[Simon Frei]

When trying to setup digikam5 for production I looked at config and
database location. Database location is covered by digikam's
manpage/help message, but not the configuration. I remember it was
possible to set it in an earlier version, possibly by "--config <path>".
From a look at the parser in the code this does not seem to be supported
anymore. Could this be reintroduced?
Is there a reason config files are by standard in ~/.config/ and not in
~/.config/digikam/? The latter would be much more neat.
And in general the help message/manpage is very minimal. As there is no
recent documentation for digikam, some information like standard
configuration location should be given in the manpage or help message.
If you can point me to the relevant code sections I could try to come up
with something.
On a side note: Digikam5 still creates an sqlite database called
"digikam4.db". Is this because the schema is version 4 or was it just
forgotten to be updated to "digikam5.db"?

Cheers,
Simon
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[Simon Frei]

Actually never mind about the standard location. I did not notice that
all files except digikamrc (e.g. digikam_tagsmanagerrc) were not
modified in a long time and thus probably no longer used in digikam5.
For a single file there is no reason for a ~/.config/digikam directory.

On 19/07/16 14:33, Simon Frei wrote:

> When trying to setup digikam5 for production I looked at config and
> database location. Database location is covered by digikam's
> manpage/help message, but not the configuration. I remember it was
> possible to set it in an earlier version, possibly by "--config
> <path>". From a look at the parser in the code this does not seem to
> be supported anymore. Could this be reintroduced?
> Is there a reason config files are by standard in ~/.config/ and not
> in ~/.config/digikam/? The latter would be much more neat.
> And in general the help message/manpage is very minimal. As there is
> no recent documentation for digikam, some information like standard
> configuration location should be given in the manpage or help message.
> If you can point me to the relevant code sections I could try to come
> up with something.
> On a side note: Digikam5 still creates an sqlite database called
> "digikam4.db". Is this because the schema is version 4 or was it just
> forgotten to be updated to "digikam5.db"?
>
> Cheers,
> Simon

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

See my explanation given in this file :

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364258

... and the pending patches to do...

Gilles Caulier

2016-07-19 14:39 GMT+02:00 Simon Frei <[hidden email]>:

Actually never mind about the standard location. I did not notice that all files except digikamrc (e.g. digikam_tagsmanagerrc) were not modified in a long time and thus probably no longer used in digikam5. For a single file there is no reason for a ~/.config/digikam directory.

On 19/07/16 14:33, Simon Frei wrote:

When trying to setup digikam5 for production I looked at config and database location. Database location is covered by digikam's manpage/help message, but not the configuration. I remember it was possible to set it in an earlier version, possibly by "--config <path>". From a look at the parser in the code this does not seem to be supported anymore. Could this be reintroduced?
Is there a reason config files are by standard in ~/.config/ and not in ~/.config/digikam/? The latter would be much more neat.
And in general the help message/manpage is very minimal. As there is no recent documentation for digikam, some information like standard configuration location should be given in the manpage or help message. If you can point me to the relevant code sections I could try to come up with something.
On a side note: Digikam5 still creates an sqlite database called "digikam4.db". Is this because the schema is version 4 or was it just forgotten to be updated to "digikam5.db"?

Cheers,
Simon

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[Simon Frei]

Thanks, that issue had some good information. The following questions remain/came up again:
 - Can a command line option to define a custom configuration location be reintroduced?
 - As there really are several configfiles: Shouldn't these be places in ~/.config/digikam instead of directly into ~/.config?
 - Can information like configuration location be added to a manpage or help message? I might be able to help with that if you can point out the location where these are defined in the source code.

Not important at all, just curious:
 - The digikam4 and digikam5 sql databases are identical. Still, what is the reason for which digikam names a new database "digikam4.db" and not "digikam5.db"?

For reference: The issue linked below states that there are the follwoing configuration files:
Linux:
- ~/.config/digikamrc
- ~/.config/digikam_tagsmanagerrc
- ~/.config/kipipluginsrc
- ~/.config/kipirc
- ~/.config/showfotorc
- ~/.local/share/apps/digikam/*

OSX:
- ~/Library/Preferences/digikamrc
- ~/Library/Preferences/digikam_tagsmanagerrc
- ~/Library/Preferences/kipipluginsrc
- ~/Library/Preferences/kipirc
- ~/Library/Preferences/showfotorc
- ~/Library/Preferences/share/apps/digikam/*

Windows:
- ~/Local Settings/digikamrc
- ~/Local Settings/digikam_tagsmanagerrc
- ~/Local Settings/kipipluginsrc
- ~/Local Settings/kipirc
- ~/Local Settings/showfotorc
- ~/Local Settings/digikam/*

On 19/07/16 16:21, Gilles Caulier wrote:

See my explanation given in this file :

tr

... and the pending patches to do...

Gilles Caulier

2016-07-19 14:39 GMT+02:00 Simon Frei <[hidden email]>:

Actually never mind about the standard location. I did not notice that all files except digikamrc (e.g. digikam_tagsmanagerrc) were not modified in a long time and thus probably no longer used in digikam5. For a single file there is no reason for a ~/.config/digikam directory.

On 19/07/16 14:33, Simon Frei wrote:

When trying to setup digikam5 for production I looked at config and database location. Database location is covered by digikam's manpage/help message, but not the configuration. I remember it was possible to set it in an earlier version, possibly by "--config <path>". From a look at the parser in the code this does not seem to be supported anymore. Could this be reintroduced?
Is there a reason config files are by standard in ~/.config/ and not in ~/.config/digikam/? The latter would be much more neat.
And in general the help message/manpage is very minimal. As there is no recent documentation for digikam, some information like standard configuration location should be given in the manpage or help message. If you can point me to the relevant code sections I could try to come up with something.
On a side note: Digikam5 still creates an sqlite database called "digikam4.db". Is this because the schema is version 4 or was it just forgotten to be updated to "digikam5.db"?

Cheers,
Simon

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2016-07-19 16:47 GMT+02:00 Simon Frei <[hidden email]>:

Thanks, that issue had some good information. The following questions remain/came up again:
 - Can a command line option to define a custom configuration location be reintroduced?

I think there is already a file in bugzilla about this topic. The port to Qt5 has some small side effects...

 

 - As there really are several configfiles: Shouldn't these be places in ~/.config/digikam instead of directly into ~/.config?

The place for config files are defined by core KDE API, following opendesktop standard. For the moment, the last 15% pending KDE API are core application classes, included the config rules. When we will make a pure Qt application, we will make something better. But the last percents to port still the most difficult to do (as expected)...

 

 - Can information like configuration location be added to a manpage or help message? I might be able to help with that if you can point out the location where these are defined in the source code.

sure, more precisely in web site. This last one must be re-designed...

 

Not important at all, just curious:
 - The digikam4 and digikam5 sql databases are identical. Still, what is the reason for which digikam names a new database "digikam4.db" and not "digikam5.db"?

Still the same. No changes in sqlite DB schema. For legacy purpose, the file name will not change for the moment.

Gilles Caulier

 

For reference: The issue linked below states that there are the follwoing configuration files:
Linux:
- ~/.config/digikamrc
- ~/.config/digikam_tagsmanagerrc
- ~/.config/kipipluginsrc
- ~/.config/kipirc
- ~/.config/showfotorc
- ~/.local/share/apps/digikam/*

OSX:
- ~/Library/Preferences/digikamrc
- ~/Library/Preferences/digikam_tagsmanagerrc
- ~/Library/Preferences/kipipluginsrc
- ~/Library/Preferences/kipirc
- ~/Library/Preferences/showfotorc
- ~/Library/Preferences/share/apps/digikam/*

Windows:
- ~/Local Settings/digikamrc
- ~/Local Settings/digikam_tagsmanagerrc
- ~/Local Settings/kipipluginsrc
- ~/Local Settings/kipirc
- ~/Local Settings/showfotorc
- ~/Local Settings/digikam/*

On 19/07/16 16:21, Gilles Caulier wrote:

See my explanation given in this file :

tr

... and the pending patches to do...

Gilles Caulier

2016-07-19 14:39 GMT+02:00 Simon Frei <[hidden email]>:

Actually never mind about the standard location. I did not notice that all files except digikamrc (e.g. digikam_tagsmanagerrc) were not modified in a long time and thus probably no longer used in digikam5. For a single file there is no reason for a ~/.config/digikam directory.

On 19/07/16 14:33, Simon Frei wrote:

When trying to setup digikam5 for production I looked at config and database location. Database location is covered by digikam's manpage/help message, but not the configuration. I remember it was possible to set it in an earlier version, possibly by "--config <path>". From a look at the parser in the code this does not seem to be supported anymore. Could this be reintroduced?
Is there a reason config files are by standard in ~/.config/ and not in ~/.config/digikam/? The latter would be much more neat.
And in general the help message/manpage is very minimal. As there is no recent documentation for digikam, some information like standard configuration location should be given in the manpage or help message. If you can point me to the relevant code sections I could try to come up with something.
On a side note: Digikam5 still creates an sqlite database called "digikam4.db". Is this because the schema is version 4 or was it just forgotten to be updated to "digikam5.db"?

Cheers,
Simon

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