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

[(Ted Harding)]

On 02-Nov-06 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?

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.

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Date: 02-Nov-06                                       Time: 20:39:38
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