I've got some non-digikam "import-like" workflow, and for that it'd be nice to have a way to force an album rescan (like digikam does after startup) from the command-line, exiting when completed. Any chance of such a thing getting accepted? Unless it's super complicated due to some structure (or maybe because digikam simply doesn't have a way of running without UI?), I'd take a stab myself at implementing it.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 254099 ***
I suspect that the scan at the start of digKam takes too long that you therefore want to have a command line option. We have significantly accelerated the scan at the start in digiKam-7.4.0 (git/master), see Bug 405235 Maik
Oops, thanks for the duplicate, I was thinking of rescan only. It's not (just) about the duration of the scan - I'm also doing some database manipulations in my scripting (adding a tag to understand when I imported a given picture), and I didn't dare insert the new files into the database myself, so currently I'm manually starting digikam while the script waits for user input.