Bug 211359

Summary: digikam: no longer supports arguments?
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Jon Nelson <jnelson-kde>
Component: Setup-CLIAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 7.6.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Jon Nelson 2009-10-21 19:20:19 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

digikam does not appear to support arguments any more.

Using KDE 4.3.1 in openSUSE 11.2 (RC1 as yet), I used dolphin to browse a folder of images.

I wanted to open one in digikam, so I told dolphin to do so.

Nothing happened.

I checked ~/.xsession-errors, and found this:

kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/digikam
digikam: Unexpected argument '/home/jnelson/Desktop/photos/100_1158a.JPG'.
digikam: Use --help to get a list of available command line options.


So, invoking digikam with the name of a file that you want it to open is
"unexpected"?  That is a fairly big departure, and it's going to make an awful lot of people mighty cranky...
Comment 1 Andi Clemens 2009-10-21 19:32:22 UTC 
I doubt that this ever worked. digiKam is not meant to be called with a file argument.
showFoto (the standalone digiKam image editor) can be used for that.
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2011-07-03 14:01:50 UTC 
No. As Andi said, digiKam is used to manage collection, not image one by one. Use Showfoto instead.

Gilles Caulier