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Hi there!
I'm currently trying to get started with using digikam. My Distro is Linux Mint 16 (up-to-date) with Cinnamon 2.0.14 (so not KDE, at least not yet) I've installed digikam through the official Linux Mint Repos:
digiKam 3.4.0 Using KDE Development Platform 4.11.5 (package version 4:3.4.0-1ubuntu3) My collection holds around 380.000 Elements with a total size of around 2TB (I'd guess about 97% of the count are pictures and the rest are video and audio recordings) So here's my list of issues I've run into as of yet: 1.) The digikam-users mailing-list-archive seems to be broken. I only get empty pages without content when I click on the links like the one above found by google. Google's cache still has some of the messages, but thats definilty a bumper when trying to find information on digikam.
2.) I'm currently using Linux Mint 16 with the Cinnamon Desktop, and digikam's tooltips have a light gray text color on a yellow background for me. Not easy to read those.
3.) When I try to use "Extra -> Maintenance -> Create Thumbnails" digikam will use incredible amounts of RAM. I've created and mounted a 200GB swapdisk (on my SSD) which takes around 4 hours to get filled by digikam, but even after 4 hours the progress bar remains at 0% and in the detailed progress bar whch shows the thumbnails as they are created It will only show around 3 thumbnails every second. So the RAM usage is not even linear to the pictures scanned, but much higher.
ad 3.) I'm currently creating fingerprints for my collection, which seems to work fine. It's been running for a few hours now and the progressbar is currently at 86% and digikam is using 6.4GB of RAM. Also the thumbnails on-the-fly creation when I open a specific folder (which seems to be called "album" in digikam therms) works fine and quite fast (around 10 pictures per second, depending on file size of course)
So please if anybody got a comment, hint, workaround or a fix for one of my issues, please reply! Kind Regards, Thomas Käfer _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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G'day Thomas, seems we have similar setups - and issues - as new users. For the tooltips problem, go to Settings > Configure digiKam ... > Miscellaneous and change the Widget style to "Cleanlooks". Not great, but readable at least. As I am still deciding if digiKam is what I want, I only have less than 5 thousand photos - doing thumbnails *is* slow, but CPU seems to be the issue for me rather than RAM. DigiKam never seems to use more then 2 threads (I have an i7, so 4 cores hiperthreaded). There may be a tweak for this, but I haven't had the desire to chase it yet. Cheers ....
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G'day Thomas, seems we have similar setups - and issues - as new users. For
the tooltips problem, go to Settings > Configure digiKam ... >
Miscellaneous and change the Widget style to "Cleanlooks". Not great, but readable at least. As
I am still deciding if digiKam is what I want, I only have less than 5
thousand photos - doing thumbnails *is* slow, but CPU seems to be the
issue for me rather than RAM. DigiKam never seems to use more then 2
threads (I have an i7, so 4 cores hiperthreaded). There may be a tweak
for this, but I haven't had the desire to chase it yet. Cheers .... _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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In reply to this post by kaefert@gmail.com
2014-03-30 13:34 GMT+02:00 [hidden email] <[hidden email]>:
> Hi there! > > I'm currently trying to get started with using digikam. > My Distro is Linux Mint 16 (up-to-date) with Cinnamon 2.0.14 (so not KDE, at > least not yet) > I've installed digikam through the official Linux Mint Repos: > digiKam 3.4.0 Using KDE Development Platform 4.11.5 (package version > 4:3.4.0-1ubuntu3) > My collection holds around 380.000 Elements with a total size of around 2TB > (I'd guess about 97% of the count are pictures and the rest are video and > audio recordings) > > So here's my list of issues I've run into as of yet: > > 1.) The digikam-users mailing-list-archive seems to be broken. > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/20454 > I only get empty pages without content when I click on the links like the > one above found by google. Google's cache still has some of the messages, > but thats definilty a bumper when trying to find information on digikam. > > 2.) I'm currently using Linux Mint 16 with the Cinnamon Desktop, and > digikam's tooltips have a light gray text color on a yellow background for > me. Not easy to read those. You must install KDEArtwork to get new color scheme for GUI. Go to Settings/Theme and change color applied to whole application. > > 3.) When I try to use "Extra -> Maintenance -> Create Thumbnails" digikam > will use incredible amounts of RAM. I've created and mounted a 200GB > swapdisk (on my SSD) which takes around 4 hours to get filled by digikam, > but even after 4 hours the progress bar remains at 0% and in the detailed > progress bar whch shows the thumbnails as they are created It will only show > around 3 thumbnails every second. So the RAM usage is not even linear to the > pictures scanned, but much higher. Already fixed in next 4.0.0. Beta4 is recently plublished. > > ad 3.) I'm currently creating fingerprints for my collection, which seems to > work fine. It's been running for a few hours now and the progressbar is > currently at 86% and digikam is using 6.4GB of RAM. Also the thumbnails > on-the-fly creation when I open a specific folder (which seems to be called > "album" in digikam therms) works fine and quite fast (around 10 pictures per > second, depending on file size of course) Same meory problem fixed here with 4.0.0. About speed, this is relevant of CPU and memory avaialble and also where you store your photo. Here i use a SSD for storage (around 250Gb of RAW + JPEG) and a backup on NAS done through the network (thanks rsync) Best Gilles Caulier _______________________________________________ Digikam-users mailing list [hidden email] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users |
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Hi Guys!
First Thanks to Shane, that fix for the Popups Settings > Configure digiKam ... > Miscellaneous and change the Widget style to "Cleanlooks" worked perfectly 2014-03-30 15:20 GMT+02:00 Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>: 2014-03-30 13:34 GMT+02:00 [hidden email] <[hidden email]>: Okey, Thanks for that. Downloaded compiled and installed it. Could create the thumbnails overnight without any problems.
Though with this latest Beta I experience a new (very annoying) bug: I've let digikam autodetect some Faces and started tagging those. With the old 3.4 digikam release, this tagging sometimes (every 5 minutes or so) made digikam crash, then I restarted it and continued.
Now with the new 4.0.0. Beta4 release, something in the background crashes that makes digikam ignore every tag I change, and when I switch to another tag and back all the tags I changed are restored to their previous state. I then have to quit digikam and restart it to make it work again.
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2014-03-31 7:22 GMT+02:00 [hidden email] <[hidden email]>:
I've tried to revert to digikam 3.4.0 but the bug staid the same, no complete crashes, but after a few minutes the tag-changes I make don't find their way into the database & files, and when I switch to another tag and go back everything is reverted. Does somebody else expierience this bug?
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