Bug 254099

Summary:	SCAN : refresh collection with a script in commandline
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	anw <antoine.public>
Component:	Database-Scan	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bcr, caulier.gilles, iwannaberich, johannes, julien.t43+kde, michael.zoehrer, stefan.mueller.83
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.8.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description anw 2010-10-14 00:36:27 UTC

Version:           1.4.0
OS:                Linux

Digikam is excellent for sharing a remote collection between computers, with photos hosted on a central server (and using a common MySQL database).

The only drawback of such setup is that scanning the whole collection from a remote computer is very slow over network (also it sometimes crashes on windows clients).

This issue could be fixed by providing a command-line argument for scanning/refreshing the collection.

- the local scan would be way faster from the server itselfs
- it would be possible to planify a cron for automatically scanning the collection. That way, clients woudln't have to scan/refresh collection themselves. The collection would be always up-to-date!

That would be awesome! How hard would it be to implement?

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Marcel Wiesweg 2010-10-14 10:08:26 UTC

>  How hard would it be to implement?

a) Server provides an X.org connection: Pretty straightforward
b) Server does not run X.org, but provides X/QtGui libraries to link: Would need a separate main()/executable using only QCoreApplication. Would need to check if any backend stuff accesses QtGui (QPixmaps etc.). Should work though.
c) Only QtCore available: Major restructuring needed. Really, no.

Comment 2 julien.t43+kde 2012-12-01 19:54:37 UTC

similar request here Bug 278344 - more scripting from command-line
still valid in 2.8.0

Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2014-08-07 05:57:20 UTC

*** Bug 278344 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 bcr 2016-07-03 16:16:46 UTC

As users start to leverage digiKam's new ability to use remote databases, I can see the need for this growing exponentially.  Running a headless version of digiKam on a NAS would eliminate unnecessary network traffic.

From the cmd line I'd like to be able to import images from a specified directory, reindex all metadata, generate thumbnails, etc.  Log files generated would denote what succeeded/failed.

Commands could be specified directly while another argument would specify a path to a configuration file.

Comment 5 stefan.mueller.83 2019-01-09 21:15:28 UTC

any chance that it could be realized after the DK 6 release?

Comment 6 MarcP 2019-01-12 01:35:14 UTC

I would be really interested as well.

Comment 7 Michael 2021-03-04 08:38:31 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 8 Maik Qualmann 2021-08-22 11:10:17 UTC

*** Bug 441353 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Michael 2021-09-11 23:18:08 UTC

Has someone tried https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-digikam
Is this an option to run it on a server and doing database updates?

Comment 10 caulier.gilles 2021-09-12 01:36:11 UTC

Hi,

I never tried Docker solution yet with digiKam.

Best regards

Gilles Caulier