[ALUG] Re: digikam (and/or kde) help needed

[cl at isbd.net]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 05:01:21PM +0000, Ten wrote:
> On Thursday 02 November 2006 14:07, cl at 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 at halon.org.uk)