I checked out Digikam recently because my camera didn't support PTP but instead a custom protocol and I wanted to copy pictures over (Dolphin had no support). Sadly, Digikam had to mess with the metadata of each picture and put its name inside. Which contribution has the program done other than download the picture from the camera? So I went to using an SD card reader instead.
Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
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Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#32Every 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
And crash in the most spectacular way.
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#33Every 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.
The infamous "Works on my laptop"
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#34KDE 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!
At least their apps are pretty DE agnostic. I use them on Cinnamon mainly and sometimes Windows.
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#35Sorry 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).
Darktable is mostly for RAW processing, Digikam is for organization / tagging afaik.
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#36Every 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…
Had the same problem, with an even larger dataset. Picasa on the other hand had no problem with it.
But huge albums are a problem for many programs, unfortunateley.
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#38Are the people tags saved to the photo's file metadata somehow? I've thrown about 130,000 photos up to google photos for safe-keeping but want a second set of redundancy.
XMP I assume.
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#39Sorry 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).
Darktable is mostly for RAW processing, Digikam is for organization / tagging afaik.
What is considered the best DAM (digital asset manager) for photos?
Re: Digikam 7.0: Open-source photo management
#40KDE 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.
I do - every time I unlock my screen, Plasma crashes, and my windows get randomly distributed around my virtual desktops.
Oddly enough, if I only have one monitor enabled, it doesn't happen. And yes, I've nuked my preferences several times.