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Offline Xenaflux

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Solved - Digikam replacement
« on: January 28, 2011, 09:32:43 PM »
Short question----Short answer

Which app can I use in XFCE  to replace Digikam ( KDE4 )

Note: The only thing I have to do is
--Download from camera to Hard Disk

Other functions are welcome, but I guess I can do most of them in a picture viewer

Thanks
« Last Edit: February 06, 2011, 11:36:49 PM by Xenaflux »
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Re: Digikam replacement
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2011, 10:55:48 PM »
I use picasa, it works good
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Re: Digikam replacement
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2011, 11:26:43 PM »
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I use picasa, it works good

OK, I will try that when the new 4.8 comes out.
I have nothing against Digikam, except that it's going to pull in a lot of KDE dependencies, and I rather avoid that if possible.

More, I know Picasa, but had no idea at all I could use it to download pics from Camera.

Thanks a lot for the info

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Re: Digikam replacement
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2011, 11:37:46 PM »
Try Shotwell
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Re: Digikam replacement
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2011, 11:50:52 PM »
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Try Shotwell

I will
I am busy to install xfce 4.6 just till.....4.8 comes
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Re: Digikam replacement
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2011, 03:55:47 AM »
If your camera has a memory card, a chip reader and the XFCE file manager are all you really need.
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Re: Digikam replacement
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2011, 03:59:54 AM »
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If your camera has a memory card, a chip reader and the XFCE file manager are all you really need.

Yes, you are right.
Why didn't I think of that.
I only need it once a month on the very most.

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Re: Digikam replacement
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2011, 08:33:26 AM »
GTKam works for my Kodak Z740. Not as full feature as Digikam, but it is a native GTK app that works well with XFCE without the MONO libs.
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Re: Digikam replacement
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2011, 06:05:46 PM »
Quote from: Xenaflux on January 29, 2011, 03:59:54 AM

Yes, you are right.
Why didn't I think of that.
I only need it once a month on the very most.

Thanks
Xena

Yeah, even when I used KDE I don't think I used DigiKam once, just used Dolphin to download the files.  File Manager's are usually the best, and cleanest way to do things.  I hate how pic managers try to generate folders or stick metadata in a back end database. 
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Re: Digikam replacement
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2011, 06:24:21 PM »
my defunct camera could be connected as a usb mass storage device, can you do the same with yours?  avoid to take out the sd card and use a sd slot that sometimes is problematic

about digikam, the only bad side to install it is afik the hard disk usage because there is not conflicts for having libraries of other desktops installed or in use
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Re: Digikam replacement
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2011, 07:10:27 PM »
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my defunct camera could be connected as a usb mass storage device, can you do the same with yours?  avoid to take out the sd card and use a sd slot that sometimes is problematic

Thanks
I will try later, as in tomorrow.
Right now I am looking at what I can do to get the Darn country flags into Ktorrent
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Re: Digikam replacement
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2011, 07:13:22 PM »
My first digital camera was a Kodak 2.1MP camera in 1998.  Fairly expensive little toy.  The first time I connected it to the computer, the desktop froze and in the process bricked the camera.  Two weeks of service later I was the proud owner of a refurbished digital camera.

Since then I NEVER connect a camera to a computer.  It's just not worth the risk, IMHO.

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Re: Digikam replacement
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2011, 07:36:43 PM »
what you say is your bad personal experience with a early model of two decades ago probably used in windows 98

say that you can't connect a camera to a pc this days is like say that you can't use a digital camera

not gonna happen

we had a cellphone that when connected to pc did that, bricked, when taken to warranty it worked magically but we asked the guy to connect it to the pc, happened again

we left the store with a new cellphone without the problem

warranties have changed alot in the last decades, your recommendation is hard to consider
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Re: Digikam replacement
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2011, 08:18:25 PM »
Quote from: mikkl on January 29, 2011, 03:55:47 AM
If your camera has a memory card, a chip reader and the XFCE file manager are all you really need.

Yup, that was the first thing that came to my mind, too.  A file manager.  Pretty much any will do fine.
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Re: Digikam replacement
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2011, 06:10:14 PM »
Quote from: T6 on January 30, 2011, 07:36:43 PM
what you say is your bad personal experience with a early model of two decades ago probably used in windows 98

say that you can't connect a camera to a pc this days is like say that you can't use a digital camera

not gonna happen

we had a cellphone that when connected to pc did that, bricked, when taken to warranty it worked magically but we asked the guy to connect it to the pc, happened again

we left the store with a new cellphone without the problem

warranties have changed alot in the last decades, your recommendation is hard to consider

I can not disagree with what you are saying, but a digital camera is hundreds of dollars while a memory chip is $20-$30.  I'll risk ruining a chip over ruining a camera any day.

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