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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:11:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F590446.4060609@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120305234122.GB3209@eisen.lan>

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

:-)  :-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-08 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-04 20:08 [gentoo-user] Photo management programs Michael Mol
2012-03-04 20:41 ` Dale
2012-03-05  7:30   ` Dale
2012-03-05 16:10   ` Michael Mol
2012-03-05 17:04     ` Dale
2012-03-05 17:10       ` Michael Mol
2012-03-05 19:09         ` Dale
2012-03-05 22:55         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-05 17:20       ` Todd Goodman
2012-03-05 18:35         ` Dale
2012-03-05 23:41       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-03-08 19:11         ` Dale [this message]
2012-03-05  6:27 ` Paul Hartman
2012-03-05 13:47 ` Todd Goodman

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