Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 11:04:47AM -0600, Dale wrote:
>> It is a nice program and I'm pretty sure it allows you to download from >> your card too. I'm not sure gtkam will allow downloads from the card so >> you are likely headed down the right road. >> Honestly, if digikam worked right with my camera, I'd use it in a heart >> beat. I like it but I can't get my pics to show up right. > ----------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Since your spelling is not always 100% precise ;-) do you really mean "show up > right", or do you mean "show upright"? The latter is a question of support by > your camera. Meant as written, this time. lol I think I explained this a bit more in another post. My camera has a separate directory for each day. Digikam doesn't seem to show them correctly. Some images don't show up at all and others show up twice or even more than twice. I think it looks for just one directory but I'm not sure. > > But why bother with it a special download function in the first place? Most > cameras support standard USB mass storage protocol, so if you set your camera > to it and plug it in via USB, it shows up as a normal mass storage device. > Digikam then recognises the folder structure on it and allows you to download > the images. > > I'm still more old school -- I copy the images over from the card using > $filemanager and then import them selectively into my digikam collection, > which allows me to keep it clean more easily. > > Digikam is a really great management application. I've been using it since KDE > 3 times. Its strong points are tagging and organising, and subsequent > rediscovery by tags and descriptions you assign to a photo. And though I > myself haven't used it much yet apart from a few select features, it has a > nice editing program, too. As I said, digikam is a nice program. I'm not saying it isn't for sure. It is a bit much for me tho since I already have a way of managing my pics. I could use digikam but I already have a system that does what it does without all the fancy stuff. As to why I use gtkam. I use it because it renames the pics as it copies and puts them in sequence. Not only do I sort them by directories but I also give them names that helps sort them too. If I just copy files the camera has, I end up with a lot of files out of order and possible duplicates and such. Of course, now I have gtkam working without crashing, so far anyway. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
