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Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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I don't really have problems with multi monitor and KDE.

Nor do I.

I would even venture to say that, as I discovered last month with several Debian setups, it is the best multi-monitor plug'n'play experience I have had so far.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Every year for at least last 5 years I have been trying Digikam. Every year like 99.9% of the reasonably complicated GUI-based single process multi-functional software written on Linux it would blow up while working with marginally large sets of files (~ 50k photos, roughly evenly split between 24 megapixel NEF files and random resolution jpegs )

It is just sad to see that the imaging/image processing/image organizing world is still stuck in 1990s paradigm rather than embrace that the computers have gobs of memory, a single application can be composed of dozen of individual components talking to each other over 127.0.0.1 and background jobs is a thing.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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KDE software is so great (digiKam, Kdenlive, Kate, Krita) unfortunately the KDE environment compared to Gnome is just so bug-ridden, especially when it comes to multi-monitoring, wayland-support and scaling. Gnome shines in these respecst. I wish thebest of both worlds!

I don't really have problems with multi monitor and KDE.

Same here, running a pair of 1440p monitors off my Hades Canyon NUC, running Kubuntu 20.04.

Largely now without tweaks, but it needed some when I originally got it to use Kisak-mesa.

neofetch output: OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS x86_64 Host: NUC8i7HVK (REMOVED) Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic Uptime: 5 hours, 7 mins Packages: 3266 (dpkg), 7 (snap) Shell: bash 5.0.17 Resolution: 2560x1440, 2560x1440 DE: Plasma WM: KWin Theme: Breeze [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] Icons: breeze [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3] Terminal: konsole CPU: Intel i7-8809G (8) @ 4.200GHz GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX Vega M GH GPU: Intel HD Graphics 630 Memory: 8898MiB / 32031MiB

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Every year for at least last 5 years I have been trying Digikam. Every year like 99.9% of the reasonably complicated GUI-based single process multi-functional software written on Linux it would blow up while working with marginally large sets of files (~ 50k photos, roughly evenly split between 24 megapixel NEF files and random resolution jpegs ) It is just sad to see that the imaging/image processing/image organizin…

I've been using it since 2011 and no problems with anything. Over 200k photos.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Sorry for somewhat unrelated query: is Digikam a replacement for Darktable? If not what's a good workflow between the two? I am a hobbyist photo taker and have only recently started using Darktable and really enjoy using it. However, it isn't a very efficient photo manager in my opinion (I may very well be missing something).

I would say they're complementary. Digikam is more of an all-around organizer and has lots of import/export stuff, tagging, and now good face recognition too apparently (the old one was based on classic Haar cascades). Darktable is for selecting a series of shots, going through them, developing the ones you want to keep.

Which would you use to replace Picasa (on a Mac) ?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would say they're complementary. Digikam is more of an all-around organizer and has lots of import/export stuff, tagging, and now good face recognition too apparently (the old one was based on classic Haar cascades). Darktable is for selecting a series of shots, going through them, developing the ones you want to keep.

Which would you use to replace Picasa (on a Mac) ?

Darktable's targets digital photography enthusiasts or professionals. The learning curve is steep. Picasa's target demographic was "everyone". So probably Digikam.

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Every year for at least last 5 years I have been trying Digikam. Every year like 99.9% of the reasonably complicated GUI-based single process multi-functional software written on Linux it would blow up while working with marginally large sets of files (~ 50k photos, roughly evenly split between 24 megapixel NEF files and random resolution jpegs ) It is just sad to see that the imaging/image processing/image organizin…

You can do multithreaded without client-server or multiprocess

Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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Sorry for somewhat unrelated query: is Digikam a replacement for Darktable? If not what's a good workflow between the two? I am a hobbyist photo taker and have only recently started using Darktable and really enjoy using it. However, it isn't a very efficient photo manager in my opinion (I may very well be missing something).

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Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management

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KDE software is so great (digiKam, Kdenlive, Kate, Krita) unfortunately the KDE environment compared to Gnome is just so bug-ridden, especially when it comes to multi-monitoring, wayland-support and scaling. Gnome shines in these respecst. I wish thebest of both worlds!

Wayland support in KDE is improving as we speak. Two recent improvements:

* https://pointieststick.com/2020/07/24/this-week-in-kde-scree...

* https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373907#c29

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