DigiKam 5 published

phellmes

Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:22:21 +0200

DigiKam 5 is out now and I'm looking forward to upgrade it on my systems. Here's the announcement on their blog:
https://www.digikam.org/node/755

Image by Caulier Gilles ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/), CC-BY

Among a lot of improvements they also got rid of the big KDE dependencies so all the quirks when using it on any other desktop should be gone.

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phellmes

Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:49:31 +0200

I've used it for some years now - mainly to manage my huge photo and stock archive as well as for quick manipulations and batch operations to prepare photos for different purposes. For more intense work on specific photos I use RawTherapee and Gimp.

Einer von Vielen

Wed, 06 Jul 2016 18:10:31 +0200

@phellmes Did you try darktable? If yes, what are the reasons you stick to DigiKam?

phellmes

Thu, 07 Jul 2016 14:56:29 +0200

I come from a KDE background and when I started using DigiKam, Darktable wasn't in the picture yet. Then I stayed with it, and for what I use it it's suitable and there's no reason to migrate if development goes on. But I'll have an eye on Darktable from time to time...