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digikamdigikamPosted Jun 17, 2010 13:21 UTC (Thu) by Webexcess (subscriber, #197)In reply to: A quick grumpy review of Shotwell by PhracturedBlue Parent article: A quick grumpy review of Shotwell
I recently switched to digikam when f-spot stopped working on my netbook (20K photos-of-the-kids might have had something to do with it)
fast and very configurable UI is great for the netbook. It also *understands* that the photos are on the LAN and might disappear if the connection goes away. Unfortunately I can't seem to bind a shortcut key to tagging images (3 mouse clicks instead), and navigation keyboard commands are a little cumbersome.
Overall it's still the best I've found.
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digiKam Posted Jun 19, 2010 2:06 UTC (Sat) by Velmont (guest, #46433) [Link]
Correct. digiKam is the only photo organizer in Linux that isn't dog slow and doesn't want to move your pictures.
I've tested them all, digiKam is the only software that works.
Too bad I have to pull inn half of KDE just to use it, Konqueror and Kmail (wtf?) and loads of other stuff I don't want. However, it's just miles ahead everything else...
digiKam Posted Jun 20, 2010 10:48 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
that's really really weird, as digikam should only depend on KDElibs (and possibly kdeworkspace-runtime). Konqi and kmail are entirely separate apps... Some distributions do not split up packages, eg if you want kmail you will get all KDE PIM apps but digikam isn't even part of the official KDE software compilation but has a separate release schedule. So it should certainly not require any other KDE application to be available.
digiKam Posted Jun 23, 2010 5:20 UTC (Wed) by Velmont (guest, #46433) [Link]
This is Ubuntu, it was a few releases ago, but I just checked with Lucid Lynx now, and although it doesn't seem to pull in Kmail, it does pull in Konqueror and Dolphin.
digiKam Posted Jun 23, 2010 6:27 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
Tsss. Well I couldn't think of a reason why this would be needed - it's simply a dependency/packaging issue in debian/ubuntu. I'd file a bug...
digiKam Posted Jun 23, 2010 13:19 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Perhaps it's for the 'open in file viewer' menu option.
digiKam Posted Jun 23, 2010 13:26 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
Na, that should just use the XDG standard and open eg Nautilus in Gnome or Explorer in Windows...
digiKam in Ubuntu RECOMMENDS konqueror Posted Jun 24, 2010 11:49 UTC (Thu) by emmi3 (subscriber, #62443) [Link]
The Ubuntu package for digikam does NOT depend on Konqueror or Dolphin, but it instead recommends kipi-plugins, which in turn recommends konqueror und suggests kmail and so on...
Since Ubuntu by default installs recommended packages (but afaik not suggested packages) konqueror is "pulled in".
So to install digikam with the kipi-plugins (and exiv2), but without Konqueror and Dolphin one could use the following command:
aptitude -R install digikam kipi-plugins+M exiv2+M
To find out about the dependencies I find the "-D"-switch for aptitude usually very helpful. Or use
aptitude -R digikam
and look out for RECOMMENDED but not installed packages
Yours,
digiKam in Ubuntu RECOMMENDS konqueror Posted Jul 4, 2010 21:19 UTC (Sun) by bjartur (guest, #67801) [Link]
WTH is this a recommendation (rather than a suggestion)?!
Debian Packaging Policy [OT] Posted Jul 5, 2010 8:30 UTC (Mon) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032) [Link] The difference as per Debian Packaging Policy is a matter of degree:
I think that this fine-grained dependency tracking allows Debian (and derivatives) to strike a good compromise between simplicity and configurability in terms of dependency management.
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