Bug 222673

Summary:	Please add a possibility of checking for new pictures from CLI
Product:	[Applications] kphotoalbum	Reporter:	Fathi Boudra <fabo>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KPhotoAlbum Bugs <kphotoalbum-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	andreas.neustifter, rsquared42
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Fathi Boudra 2010-01-14 11:05:45 UTC

Version:           4.1.1 (using KDE 4.3.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

This a forwarded Debian bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562972

Hello,

Could you, please, add a new feature for kphotoalbum ?
I'd be glad to run it like:
kphotoalbum --scan-new
for checking if new pictures appeared in the directory and scanning it, then exitting.

Regards

Comment 1 Andreas Neustifter 2010-06-05 15:53:16 UTC

What would be a possible use case for this? It seems quite not useful to me...

Comment 2 Randall Rude 2025-10-19 18:00:58 UTC

A command line option to search for files on startup was added for version 5.2:
https://invent.kde.org/graphics/kphotoalbum/-/commit/4939382ec1e06d13852644de4b3b5bbd4372c3ff

A command line option to startup, then save the db and exit was added for version 6.1.0:
https://invent.kde.org/graphics/kphotoalbum/-/commit/ec20490dce3e5d27f5f9c03a1aaf7f260ad0166d

The user can combine these command line options to achieve the requested feature:
kphotoalbum --search --save-and-quit