Bug 449287

Summary:	Use Digikam as a photo viewer with arguments
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	4EverMaAT <yourbestfriendjax>
Component:	Preview-Image	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	7.5.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	7.6.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description 4EverMaAT 2022-01-28 11:42:09 UTC

SUMMARY
I want to be able to use Digicam as a photo viewer.  So I think to do this, you would have to pass parameters to the "open with" dialog within windows explorer or other app and then direct it to the OpenGL Image viewer, which is good for a preview.

But other options would be to have other switches that would allow photo to open in main program or with other Digikam viewer.

1) have a DKLauncher.exe [with auguments]
2) use DigiKam.exe [with arguments]

OBSERVED RESULT


EXPECTED RESULT


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 10 [LTSC 2019]
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 
KDE Frameworks Version:  Version 5.89.0
Qt Version:  5.15.2 (built against 5.15.2)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  Or recommend a photo viewer.

Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2022-01-28 12:00:42 UTC

digiKam manages image collections and is not intended or designed to just open an external image. You are looking for showFoto. Like digiKam, this is also part of the Windows bundle. showFoto also includes the OpenGL viewer and all image processing plugins.

Maik

Comment 2 Maik Qualmann 2022-01-28 12:52:39 UTC

I don't see any problems with the MOV file on Windows either. Just as a question in the room, could it also be that ffmpeg uses hardware acceleration on some computers and that's why there are problems?

ffmpeg -hide_banner -hwaccels

Maik

Comment 3 Maik Qualmann 2022-01-28 12:53:17 UTC

Sorry, Comment 1 ist wrong here.

Maik

Comment 4 Maik Qualmann 2022-01-28 12:54:00 UTC

Comment 2 ist wrong here...

Maik

Comment 5 4EverMaAT 2022-01-28 13:33:00 UTC

(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #1)
> digiKam manages image collections and is not intended or designed to just
> open an external image. You are looking for showFoto. Like digiKam, this is
> also part of the Windows bundle. showFoto also includes the OpenGL viewer
> and all image processing plugins.
> 
> Maik


But how do I use it as default photo viewer?  Specifically how would I use it to open an image in a specific view?

Perhaps a different program dedicated to viewing only would be quicker. (showfoto takes several seconds to launch)

Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2022-02-05 14:53:17 UTC

>showfoto takes several seconds to launch

Go to Setup/plugins and disable all unwanted tools. This will speed-up start stages.

To assign Showfoto with you preferred image format, change Windows mimetypes-applications table.

Anyway, if Showfoto is not the desired image viewer for you, there are plenty of programs under Windows to do this task. In all cases, as Maik said, this is not the role to digiKam...

Gilles Caulier