Bug 204480

Summary:	Unable to access albums on drives other than C:
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Frederic Gedin <frederic.gedin>
Component:	Setup-Collections	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	caulier.gilles, marcel.wiesweg, meldavid
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	1.0.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Fix for the case when it didn't work

Description Frederic Gedin 2009-08-20 07:33:43 UTC

Version:           10.0.0-beta3 (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                MS Windows
Installed from:    MS Windows

When the application is launched for the first time, a wizard is displayed to help for the first configuration. This wizard offers access to the mass storage volume based on standard Windows file access dialog box. It is then possible to select any other drive than C:. However, from the application configuration menu, file selection is based on linux file access dialog box (i.e. root, /home, etc.). This does not allow access to other drive than C:.
In addition, if drive D: is chosen from the application launching wizard, the chosen directory is not browsed and its images are not visible in the Digikam album tree.

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2009-08-20 08:13:49 UTC

10.0.0-beta3 is too old. please update to stable release 10.0.0

Gilles Caulier

Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2009-08-20 08:19:25 UTC

Oh, it's 1.0, not 10.0... 

Note : These dialog come from KDElibs, not digiKam...

Gilles Caulier

Comment 3 David Eriksson 2009-09-17 22:55:08 UTC

The start location of the dialog is KUrl("kfiledialog:///collectionlocation"). Since this is not a localfile the KDE-dialog is used instead of the Windows-dialog.
The attached patch changes the start location under Windows to the default Picture-path, which is a localfile.

Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2009-09-18 10:09:35 UTC

SVN commit 1025157 by cgilles:

apply patch from David Eriksson to handle collection path under windows.
CCMAIL: meldavid@acc.umu.se
CCBUGS: 204482
CCBUGS: 204480


 M  +18 -0     setupcollectionview.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1025157

Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2009-09-18 12:20:03 UTC

Patch applied. I close this entry now

Gilles Caulier

Comment 6 Marcel Wiesweg 2009-09-18 14:22:19 UTC

This is actually a workaround for a KDE Windows bug:
The filedialog:///collectionlocation" is not a file but a special value or rather identifier. It tells KFileDialog to start at the last used location opened with the same identifier. For me, it is a KDE windows bug if this is not recognized properly!
Perhaps you can open a bug report on the KDE windows module.

Comment 7 David Eriksson 2009-09-18 23:43:19 UTC

I have filled a report against KDE-windows.

I have also improved the fix/workaround a bit in the attached patch. It didn't work all the time.

Comment 8 David Eriksson 2009-09-18 23:44:32 UTC

Created attachment 37046 [details]
Fix for the case when it didn't work