Bug 87806

Summary: allow custom umask for shared photos?
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: rfc469
Component: Plugin-Generic-WishForNewToolsAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.6.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description rfc469 2004-08-23 01:30:54 UTC 
Version:           0.6.2 (using KDE KDE 3.2.3)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

A digikam is often a shared resource, like a printer.  On any given download from the camera, there are pictures that I took, and pictures that other members of my family took.  I have a shared "photo" directory that every member of my family uses and I've made it sgid but that isn't sufficient to allow everyone to move or modify the shared photos since everyone's umask is 022 (which I would like to keep, except for the shared photos).

One way around this would be to allow digikam to write out new files with a different umask, to allow everyone in the group "users" to move or modify the files.  Or perhaps there's a more elegant solution?  Thanks.
Comment 1 Renchi Raju 2004-09-28 21:59:56 UTC 
sorry, but this functionality is not meant to be implemented via digikam. you can find other solutions to handle this problem for eg, by using either a cron job/batch script. there might be better solutions to this problem.
Comment 2 Nigel Stewart 2007-10-05 08:02:30 UTC 
I think it would be handy to configure the umask on a per-application basis, but I think that ought to be generically via the menu entry, rather than coded into various applications.