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

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.