digiKam — A Comprehensive Media Manager
It’s been a while since I’ve looked at digiKam. Maybe like 8 years? Maybe more.
It is so much better than I remember.
In fact, it seems like it may be just as good as XnViewMP in terms of feature set.
That is something. Not even the paid Adobe Bridge is that good, not since I last checked like 6 years ago, at least.
Anyway, I will be testing it out on some duplicated folders with hundreds of images and videos to see if it really is as good as it seems.
And yes, I know about and have tried RawTherapee and darktable. These aren’t so good for my particular workflow and are better for actual photographers, retouchers, etc.
digiKam is better for my workflow, where I don’t necessarily need to do more than cropping and adding text when it comes to editing. The main things I need are organisation, file and location history, quick search filters (not a full recursive search — just something that filters what you type), merging images, finding duplicates, and so on.
These are all things XnViewMP excels at, and even Dolphin can perform some of these actions with service menus or scripts. Of course, Dolphin can’t do some things natively or intuitively, like cropping or adding text.
Between Dolphin and XnViewMP, I have everything I need, but it would be nice to switch to something that does it all while also being open source.