https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419793
--- Comment #5 from Richard <richie...@gmail.com> --- I had to investigate a little to narrow down the cause. Background: I use multiple configuration files so I can manage different sets of photos. I then use "digikam --config $PWD/library.conf" to open the Photo set I want. To create a new config file, I use "touch library.conf" and then "digikam $PWD/library.conf" because digiKam won't work if the config does not exist. Next I go through the initial setup. So far so good, everything seems to work perfect except shuffling presentations. I just found out that if I create a config file in that way, it won't have a "[Presentation Settings]" section. For some reason it just won't be created, even after starting a presentation. And without that section the presentation Shuffle won't work. To work around, I copied the "[Presentation Settings]" section from ~/.digikamrc into my "library2.conf" and then it seems to work. (great!) But there is something else strange. If I remove the "[Presentation Settings]" from ~/.digikamrc, and then start digikam with "digikam --config $HOME/.config/digikamrc", I get exactly the same problem as above (no [Presentation Settings]). Then if I exit digiKam and start it without using the "--config" parameter, then shuffle works fine and "[Presentation Settings]" is created automatically. So it looks like something is wrong with the --config parameter. At least I have a work-around now, so I can fix my config files manually and shuffle. Here are details: Versions * Tested on Ubuntu 18.04 digiKam 5.6.0 * Same on macOS digiKam 6.4.0 Steps to reproduce (method 1): cd tmp touch library.conf digikam --config $PWD/library.conf # Go through initial setup # Settings, Configure digiKam. Collections. Add network share. # Select all photos. # View, presentation. Shuffle images. Start presentation. # Won't be shuffled # exit digiKam # "[Presentation Settings]" won't be created (method 2) vi ~/.config/digikamrc # remove "[Presentation Settings]" section digikam --config $HOME/.config/digikamrc # shuffle presentation =-> it won't be shuffled # exit digiKam # "[Presentation Settings]" won't be created # Launch digikam again without --config digikam # shuffle presentation =-> it works!! # exit digiKam # "[Presentation Settings]" was been created. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
