Digikam
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Installation
Install digikam. Optionally, install kdemultimedia-mplayerthumbs[broken link: package not found] to generate thumbnails for video files.
Gnome Installations
Additionally, in order to allow icons to work (no missing icons) correctly for gnome desktop environment you must install the KDE icons and theme as below with the qt5 settings program.
Install oxygen oxygen-icons qt5ct
Once installed you must edit (or create if you do not have one) your ~/.profile
to export the appropriate Environmental Variable:
~/.profile
... export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qt5ct"
After editing the profile logout and back in run qt5ct in the terminal. Select Style: Oxygen under the Appearance tab and Oxygen under the Icon Theme tab. Press apply and then OK to save your changes.
After this you can run digikam as normal and the icons will be correct.
Troubleshooting
Video playback
A Phonon backend is installed as a dependency of Digikam, but matching multimedia codecs may be missing. When using the phonon-qt4-gstreamer backend, install one or more of its plugins with pacman -S gstreamer0.10-{good,bad,ugly,ffmpeg}
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Unreadable tool tips
If tooltips within the user interface are either blank (empty rectangles), or unreadable due to a poor foreground and background combination, choose a different widget style:
- Navigate to Settings > Configure digiKam > Miscellaneous
- Now in Widget Style, choose "Cleanlooks"
This will have a simple, readable white text on black background in the tool tip.