digikam wont "open with digikam"

[buzzmandt]

I can start digikam from kmenu just fine but if i set to open images with digikam by default, or even right click an image and select open with>digikam, I get the digikam icon bouncy and taskmanager but it never opens it. any ideas?

[doctordruidphd]

Re: digikam wont "open with digikam"

I don't believe digikam itself is designed to open individual images, it's more of a collection manager. showfoto, on the other hand, is designed for individual images, and that's probably what you want to do anyway.

I base that on the observation that typing digikam imagename.jpg produces an error message, while showfoto imagename.jpg works just fine. So if you want to use digikam to edit individual images, it's really showfoto that you are using, so you should be opening with showfoto and not digikam.

[buzzmandt]

Re: digikam wont "open with digikam"

hmmm, this might work, thanks a mil