# The Digikam Handbook

George N. Ugnacious

    gnu@kde.org

1999 2000 George N. Ugnacious
&FDLNotice;
03/04/1999
1.01.00

&digikam; is an application specially designed to do nothing you would ever want.

KDE kdeutils Kapp nothing nothing else

## Introduction

&kapp; is a program that lets you do absolutely nothing. Please report any problems or feature requests to the KDE mailing lists.

## Using Digikam

Here's a screenshot of &kapp;

Screenshot

### More Kapp features

It slices! It dices! and it comes with a free toaster!

The Squiggle Tool

Squiggle
is used to draw squiggly lines all over the &digikam; main window. It's not a bug, it's a feature!

## Command Reference

### The main Digikam window

#### The File Menu

Ctrl n File New

  Creates a new document

Ctrl s File Save

  Saves the document

Ctrl q File Quit

  Quits &kapp;

## Developer's Guide to Digikam

Programming &digikam; plugins is a joy to behold. Just read through the next 66 pages of API's to learn how!

## Questions and Answers

&reporting.bugs; &updating.documentation;

My Mouse doesn't work. How do I quit &kapp;?

You silly goose! Check out the Commands Section for the answer.

Why can't I twiddle my documents?

You can only twiddle your documents if you have the foobar.lib installed.

## Credits and License

&kapp;

Program copyright 1997 John Q. Hacker jqh@kde.org

Contributors:

- Konqui the KDE Dragon konqui@kde.org

- Tux the Linux Penguin tux@linux.org

Documentation copyright 1999 George N. Ugnacious gnu@kde.org

&underFDL; &underGPL; &underBSDLicense; &underArtisticLicense; &underX11License;

## Installation

### How to obtain Digikam

&digikam; is part of the KDE project http://www.kde.org. &digikam; can be found in the kdeutils package on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the main ftp site of the KDE project.

### Requirements

In order to successfully use &digikam;, you need KDE 1.1. Foobar.lib is required in order to support the advanced &digikam; features. &digikam; uses about 5 megs of memory to run, but this may vary depending on your platform and configuration.

All required libraries as well as &digikam; itself can be found on The &digikam; home page.

You can find a list of changes at http://apps.kde.org/kapp.

### Compilation and Installation

In order to compile and install KApp on your system, type the following in the base directory of the Icon Editor distribution:

    % ./configure
    % make
    % make install

Since KApp uses autoconf and automake you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the KDE mailing lists.

### Configuration

Don't forget to tell your system to start the `dtd` dicer-toaster daemon first, or KApp won't work !

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