[digiKam-users] SD card import on a Mac

[Webreaper]

I just tried to import photos for the first time and found that the MacBook SD card slot isn't recognised. Seems this is a know problem:

http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/Importing-on-a-Mac-td4690370.html

That thread was a couple of years ago. Is there any likelihood of a fix soon? Seems like a bit of a functional gap.... 

[J Albrecht]

I think that your problems are unique. It’s always been functioning perfectly well over here on my MBPro.

On 17 Feb 2019, at 16:46, Mark Otway <[hidden email]> wrote:

I just tried to import photos for the first time and found that the MacBook SD card slot isn't recognised. Seems this is a know problem:

http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/Importing-on-a-Mac-td4690370.html

That thread was a couple of years ago. Is there any likelihood of a fix soon? Seems like a bit of a functional gap.... 

[Webreaper]

Interesting. The thread I linked to explicitly says that KDE doesn't support it. Where does it appear for you in the import menu? 

On Sun, 17 Feb 2019, 22:09 J Albrecht <[hidden email] wrote:

I think that your problems are unique. It’s always been functioning perfectly well over here on my MBPro.

On 17 Feb 2019, at 16:46, Mark Otway <[hidden email]> wrote:

I just tried to import photos for the first time and found that the MacBook SD card slot isn't recognised. Seems this is a know problem:

http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/Importing-on-a-Mac-td4690370.html

That thread was a couple of years ago. Is there any likelihood of a fix soon? Seems like a bit of a functional gap.... 

[Rob D]

Hi.

I just installed the "release" of digikam 6 on my MBPro and Windows 10 based machines, and the splash screen still has "beta" on it. Was this simply a case of not updating the graphic?

[AndriusWild]

I think Windows version has always been 'beta'...

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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

From: Rob Dueckman <[hidden email]>

Date: 2019-02-17 4:19 PM (GMT-07:00)

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

Subject: [digiKam-users] DK 6.0.0 Beta tag still in splash screen for OSX and Windows

Hi.

I just installed the "release" of digikam 6 on my MBPro and Windows 10 based machines, and the splash screen still has "beta" on it. Was this simply a case of not updating the graphic?

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Hi all,

I will give more technical details about media support under MAC (but also under Windows and Linux).

All platform supported by digiKam use the same software interface to manage media (internal or external). This include hard-drive, SDD, read-only media, SDCard, etc. this interface ins named Solid and come from KDE framework (KF5). 

https://solid.kde.org/

https://api.kde.org/frameworks/solid/html/

There is no other Qt alternative that i know which give the same functionalities that we use in digiKam, as :

- media discovery

- removal media detection on the fly (See Import menu form album view).

- media properties (UUID used to register collection in database).

Solid work well under Linux. A port to Windows and MacOS exists and work in some cases but not all. This depend of plenty cases not registered in API and depending of device ID detected. For example, older devices can be not registered in the internal list used by Solid.

See my screenshot just taken une OSX Mojave from my Macbook-pro 2012 with digiKam 6.1.0 pre install package :

https://i.imgur.com/t1MQtBM.png

Look the Import Menu and the KF5 version used to compile digiKam : 5.51. The current stable is 5.55 and this include Solid. I need to rebuild the bundle with this version in case of some improvements and fixes have been included.

One year ago,  a KDE developer named René J Bertin (RJVB) using exclusively MACOS has contacted me to see if i can test a big patch about to support Mac devices under digiKam. He provide a lots of changes in Solid implementation to use more recent Apple SDK and fix missing use cases under MacOS. See this thread for details :

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393416

Note that the bugzilla entry still open as all use cases depending of all Apple devices are not yet covered by the Solid implementation.

Voilà you know all the details. If you have dysfunction under MacOSX with a removable media, please post your comment on Bug #393416 where René is in CC.

 

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le dim. 17 févr. 2019 à 23:12, Mark Otway <[hidden email]> a écrit :

Interesting. The thread I linked to explicitly says that KDE doesn't support it. Where does it appear for you in the import menu? 

On Sun, 17 Feb 2019, 22:09 J Albrecht <[hidden email] wrote:

I think that your problems are unique. It’s always been functioning perfectly well over here on my MBPro.

On 17 Feb 2019, at 16:46, Mark Otway <[hidden email]> wrote:

I just tried to import photos for the first time and found that the MacBook SD card slot isn't recognised. Seems this is a know problem:

http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/Importing-on-a-Mac-td4690370.html

That thread was a couple of years ago. Is there any likelihood of a fix soon? Seems like a bit of a functional gap.... 

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Hi,

Yes, the tag beta still show in spalshscreen since a while.

Depending of the stability under Windows and MacOS for the new 6.0.0 stable release, this can be changed of course for the next 6.1.0.

So the subject still open in this room, depending of the users feedback. Please comment on this thread.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le lun. 18 févr. 2019 à 00:25, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> a écrit :

I think Windows version has always been 'beta'...

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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

From: Rob Dueckman <[hidden email]>

Date: 2019-02-17 4:19 PM (GMT-07:00)

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

Subject: [digiKam-users] DK 6.0.0 Beta tag still in splash screen for OSX and Windows

Hi.

I just installed the "release" of digikam 6 on my MBPro and Windows 10 based machines, and the splash screen still has "beta" on it. Was this simply a case of not updating the graphic?

[AndriusWild]

Hello Gilles,

I do not use Mac but I have a Windows machine.

What are the criteria for the Windows version of digiKam to get out of 'beta' stage?

I do import with sorting by folders, rename, group/ungroup, commenting, tagging, flagging, etc., geotagging, moving/removing, etc. everything works.

'Open with' does not work but you are aware of that.

Video playback lags but you are aware of that as well.

Thanks,

Andrey

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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

From: Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>

Date: 2019-02-18 2:45 AM (GMT-07:00)

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

Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] DK 6.0.0 Beta tag still in splash screen for OSX and Windows

Hi,

Yes, the tag beta still show in spalshscreen since a while.

Depending of the stability under Windows and MacOS for the new 6.0.0 stable release, this can be changed of course for the next 6.1.0.

So the subject still open in this room, depending of the users feedback. Please comment on this thread.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le lun. 18 févr. 2019 à 00:25, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> a écrit :

I think Windows version has always been 'beta'...

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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

From: Rob Dueckman <[hidden email]>

Date: 2019-02-17 4:19 PM (GMT-07:00)

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

Subject: [digiKam-users] DK 6.0.0 Beta tag still in splash screen for OSX and Windows

Hi.

I just installed the "release" of digikam 6 on my MBPro and Windows 10 based machines, and the splash screen still has "beta" on it. Was this simply a case of not updating the graphic?