Settings¶

Settings is for admins, apart from the display choices every signed-in account can make for itself. It has five tabs.

Display¶

Setting	Does
Name	what iopix calls itself: the top of the page, the browser tab, the installed app
Appearance	light (default), dark, or follow the device
Units	metric or imperial for distances and altitude
Thumbnail badges	faces, place and favorite badges on thumbnails
Info panel	which sections the viewer's info panel shows
Map provider	OpenStreetMap, or Google Maps with your key

Display choices are saved with your account when signed in, else in the browser.

Setting	Does
digiKam database	SQLite folder or MariaDB/MySQL server, with Test connection
Album roots	where each of digiKam's photo folders is found on this machine
iopix database	SQLite file, or switch to MariaDB/MySQL
Sync with digiKam	on, off, and the merge choices when turning it back on
Check for updates daily	a note for admins when a new version is out
Read-only mode	refuse every change, for everyone

Setting	Does
Write metadata into image files	also write changes into JPEG, PNG, TIFF and WebP files, not only sidecars
Sidecar file names	`photo.jpg.xmp` (digiKam's default) or `photo.xmp`
Metadata templates	creator, copyright and contact templates
Place tags	create `Places/Country/Region/Town` tags from GPS positions

The content-search model, background threads (how many cores a job may use), and the switches for each analysis job.

Accounts, roles, Require sign-in, and sign-in through a proxy. See Users and sign-in.