SUMMARY A setting to export and import a user's Digikam set-up seems to be missing. OBSERVED RESULT Setting panel does not provide any option to export your Digikam settings. This is a standard feature in almost all software and is extremely useful to save custom set-ups of complex software, migrate easier to new devices or OS's, etc. EXPECTED RESULT Options in the setting panel to export and import your settings. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: 10
All settings files are listed in doc : https://docs.digikam.org/en/getting_started/installation.html#configuration-files
Which settings do you mean exactly? The keyboard shortcuts scheme can be exported as well as the advanced metadata settings. All other settings are located in a few configuration files, as can be seen in the link from Gilles, which are easy to copy. Maik
Hello Gilles, Hello Maik, thanks for getting back to me! I mean the general settings of the software, so mainly UI customisations. I am aware of the ability to export shortcuts and metadata rules. Thanks @gilles for the link. I had searched the help files and the internet, but had found nothing... Unfortunately, even with the info in the referred doc, I still haven't found the digikamui5.rc file I should supposedly be looking for. Reason: I can't locate the folder mentioned in the doc: %LocalAppData%\kxmlgui5digikam\digikamui5.rc I am aware of the "AppData\Local" folder (which does not contain the said file), but have never heard of a "LocalAppData" folder. Can you point me in the right direction? In general I think: - the current way of working is too complicated for average and even above-average users (I'm an experience Windows user myself...) - a simple way to export ALL settings (so UI, shortcuts AND metadata preferences) would be a huge win for the software Thanks for reading me! Kind regards, Tim Heymans
Created attachment 165333 [details] Windows 10 User lo
Comment on attachment 165333 [details] Windows 10 User lo Windows 10 digikam rc file located in User local application data directory
Hello, in the meantime I solved my own problem! I was looking for the config file under C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\digikam Apparently it is located in C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\kxmlgui5\digikam - as noted in the doc mentioned earlier. Thanks!
O, wait, I'm confused now! Apparently there's a "digikamrc" file, a "digikam_systemrc" file and a "digikamui5" file... Do you have time to expand a bit on what covers what exactly? I mean, I can see the descriptions: -General settings of the application. Delete this and restart digiKam to reset the application to factory settings -System settings of the application. Delete this and restart digiKam to reset the application to factory settings -contains UI configuration, if your UI is broken, delete this file But I don't know what is considered "general settings", what "system settings", and what UI. Anyway... I can also backup all three of them... 🤔
System settings of the application: all settings available from Setup/miscs/system dialog page. General settings of the application: all others settings from the Setup dialog. UI configuration : the configuration or the toolbar customized by end-user. Gilles Caulier
Git commit 3eac4c9fd89e02933dfc50b6c48dc3ff5a4ee502 by Gilles Caulier. Committed on 12/04/2025 at 05:30. Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'. add more details about config files FIXED-IN: 8.7.0 M +6 -6 getting_started/installation.rst https://invent.kde.org/documentation/digikam-doc/-/commit/3eac4c9fd89e02933dfc50b6c48dc3ff5a4ee502