digikam (and/or kde) help needed
I have installed digikam on my Slackware system and it appears to have installed OK (now that I've added the required libraries). However there are a couple of issues:- When I run it I get a whole load of warning messages from kbuildsycoca, mostly about undefined mimetypes, should I just ignore these? It seems to run artsd (/opt/kde/bin/artsd) when I start digikam, since that's a sound application it seems a bit unnecessary, can I prevent it from starting? ... and don't tell me to go to the KDE Control Panel to sort things, I'm not running KDE even though I have all the KDE libraries installed. -- Chris Green (chris@halon.org.uk)
On Thursday 02 November 2006 14:07, cl@isbd.net wrote:
I have installed digikam on my Slackware system and it appears to have installed OK (now that I've added the required libraries).
However there are a couple of issues:-
When I run it I get a whole load of warning messages from kbuildsycoca, mostly about undefined mimetypes, should I just ignore these?
It seems to run artsd (/opt/kde/bin/artsd) when I start digikam, since that's a sound application it seems a bit unnecessary, can I prevent it from starting?
... and don't tell me to go to the KDE Control Panel to sort things, I'm not running KDE even though I have all the KDE libraries installed.
I wonder - Digikam uses the KDE mimetypes and thumbnail code, it might spark up artsd if kde is set to run it at startup, or if there's some reason for it to think video thumbnails are needed? Incidentally, if you need to adjust your KDE settings, why not use kcontrol? Cheers. -- There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 05:01:21PM +0000, Ten wrote:
On Thursday 02 November 2006 14:07, cl@isbd.net wrote:
I have installed digikam on my Slackware system and it appears to have installed OK (now that I've added the required libraries).
However there are a couple of issues:-
When I run it I get a whole load of warning messages from kbuildsycoca, mostly about undefined mimetypes, should I just ignore these?
It seems to run artsd (/opt/kde/bin/artsd) when I start digikam, since that's a sound application it seems a bit unnecessary, can I prevent it from starting?
... and don't tell me to go to the KDE Control Panel to sort things, I'm not running KDE even though I have all the KDE libraries installed.
I wonder - Digikam uses the KDE mimetypes and thumbnail code, it might spark up artsd if kde is set to run it at startup, or if there's some reason for it to think video thumbnails are needed?
Incidentally, if you need to adjust your KDE settings, why not use kcontrol?
Thanks for this, kcontrol pops up quite happily on my fvwm2 desktop so that's an excellent idea. It looks like disabling the KDE Sound System from kcontrol may do what I need. Thanks some more. -- Chris Green (chris@halon.org.uk)
On 02-Nov-06 Ten wrote:
On Thursday 02 November 2006 14:07, cl@isbd.net wrote:
I have installed digikam on my Slackware system and it appears to have installed OK (now that I've added the required libraries).
However there are a couple of issues:-
When I run it I get a whole load of warning messages from kbuildsycoca, mostly about undefined mimetypes, should I just ignore these?
It seems to run artsd (/opt/kde/bin/artsd) when I start digikam, since that's a sound application it seems a bit unnecessary, can I prevent it from starting?
... and don't tell me to go to the KDE Control Panel to sort things, I'm not running KDE even though I have all the KDE libraries installed.
I wonder - Digikam uses the KDE mimetypes and thumbnail code, it might spark up artsd if kde is set to run it at startup, or if there's some reason for it to think video thumbnails are needed?
Coming in a bit late on this thread -- As well as the obvious case where a camera which takes a movie will normally record the ambient sound as well, some cameras (at least) allow you to add sound to a still picture (though not at the instant you take it, of course). So, on my Fuji FinePix, if I scroll through to a paricular picture on the LCD, then press a certain sequence of buttons, the camera records a .wav file with the same filename as the .jpg file for the picture, until it runs out of space or you press another button. E.g. just for fun, I made dscf0032.jpg by taking a picture, and then dscf0032.wav as above. So possibly digikam can cope with this sort of thing (depending on the camera) by associating the .wav file with the .jpg file in the thumbnails, calling on artsd to play the sound if you evoke the picture? Just a thought -- and if course if you don;t do that sort of thing then you wouldn't be interested in having artsd brought on scene automatically! Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 02-Nov-06 Time: 20:39:38 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
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