Digikam: photo management open source

[denzjos]

DigiKam 8.5.0 release, professional photo management and editor with the power of open source.
Features : https://www.digikam.org/about/features/

[PixLab]

Yeah... I wanted to like it many years ago to have a FLOSS instead of XnView, so I tried it again today.... but still the writing under the thumbnails takes unbearably too much space thus I have a lot less thumbnails to see in the thumbnails view mode than in XnView, also the "view" cannot be customized and you got a row of thumbnails that you need to slide left ➤ right << left.... and other things...

I truly want to like it, but I can't, if you know how to customize those, please tell me

[denzjos]

(11-18-2024, 04:15 AM)PixLab Wrote: Yeah... I wanted to like it many years ago to have a FLOSS instead of XnView, so I tried it again today.... but still the writing under the thumbnails takes unbearably too much space thus I have a lot less thumbnails to see in the thumbnails view mode than in XnView, also the "view" cannot be customized and you got a row of thumbnails that you need to slide left ➤ right << left.... and other things...

I truly want to like it, but I can't, if you know how to customize those, please tell me  

Maybe this can help you : https://docs.digikam.org/en/main_window/image_view.html

[PixLab]

(11-18-2024, 07:37 AM)denzjos Wrote:

(11-18-2024, 04:15 AM)PixLab Wrote: Yeah... I wanted to like it many years ago to have a FLOSS instead of XnView, so I tried it again today.... but still the writing under the thumbnails takes unbearably too much space thus I have a lot less thumbnails to see in the thumbnails view mode than in XnView, also the "view" cannot be customized and you got a row of thumbnails that you need to slide left ➤ right << left.... and other things...

I truly want to like it, but I can't, if you know how to customize those, please tell me  

Maybe this can help you : https://docs.digikam.org/en/main_window/image_view.html

This made me hate it more, look just this preview type
When you have hundreds of photos to cull.... I mean seriously.... it's the least efficient way to cull going thru hundreds of thumbnails and having a preview  

[MrsP-from-C]

To have an overview for many, I usually use the thumbnails tab.

[PixLab]

(11-19-2024, 08:15 AM)MrsP-from-C Wrote: To have an overview for many, I usually use the thumbnails tab.

Yes but you cannot have the "Preview" the way XnView can be customized, I mean you need to switch between thumbnails and the other view type... It's not efficient (but if you know how to customize it, although I did not found how, I'm willing to try it again)

   

[Ofnuts]

I cull with Gwenview. On my PC I have Home/End/Insert/Delete in a row in the top tight corner, so, I configured the keys as:

• Home: previous
  
• End: next
  
• Insert: toggle 100% zoom (check focus)
  
• Delete: trash (and display next)
  

I display the first image fullscreen, I put three fingers on the last three keys (Home not used much) and I can cull at two images/second, not using thumbnails.

[denzjos]

Digikam 8.7.0 :
https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-06-30-...ouncement/