# Configuring KimDaBa

Selecting Settings|Configure KimDaBa.. from the menu bar will bring up the options dialog. This chapter will tell you about the configuration option available there.

## General Options

In you can see the configuration page for general options, below each item will be explained.

### General Options

Thumbnail size

  This options specifies the size of the thumbnails in the thumbnail overview (see ). The size is the maximum width and height allowed, while maintaining the image ratio.

Trust time stamp on new files

  When KimDaBa starts up, it will search for images in its directory. When finding new images it may choose to set the date for the images to the date of the files. This is of course only useful if the images comes from a digital camera that stores the files with appropriate file date (in contrast to scanning paper images in).

Maximum images per page

  If you show thumbnails with size 128, then each thumbnail will in memory occupy 128 x 128 x 4byte = 64 Kb. If the thumbnail view was to show 2000 images, then you would need 2000 * 64k = 125 Mb, just to show the overview. If this math do not scare you, try with 20.000 images. Besides showing that many images isn't really gonna help you, as you will not easily be able to get an overview of say 2000 images. Therefore you can specify how many images to show per page.

Auto save

  KimDaBa will auto save as often as you specify here.

Viewer size

  Here you specify the initial size for the viewer (see ). When storing this value, KimDaBa will record your screen resolution, so that you can have a different value on a laptop with a small display, compared to on a desktop system with larger monitor.

## Option Groups

In it was described how you could specify different properties for each image, these included `Persons`, `Locations` and `Keywords`. It is possible to specify your own groups, so if you prefer you could get an `Items`, a `Animals`, or a `Albums` group your self.

In below you can see the dialog used to configure which groups exists. For each group you specify a label and an icon.

### Configuring Option Groups

## Member Groups

Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and California are all located in USA. Furthermore, San Francisco and Los Angeles are located in California.

Instead of specifying for each and every image from San Francisco, that it is in San Francisco, and in California, and in USA, you may instead specify in the `Member Group` configuration dialog, that San Francisco, and Los Angeles are in California, and that California among others are in USA. Doing so the browser (see ) will offer you an item for USA, and an item for California in addition to all your normal items. Selecting California, you will see all images from San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc.

In you can see a browser window, containing USA as a member group item. To indicate to you that this is a group, a special icons is used.

### Browser showing USA as a member

In you can see the configuration page for specifying member groups. At the top there is a combo box, where you can specify which option group you are currently configuring. On the left side you see a list box with the current member groups, and on the right side you see a list box with the members of that member group.

### Configuring Member Groups

To add a new group, simply press the `Add Group` button at the bottom of the dialog.

As in the example above, member groups may contain member groups them self, so the member group USA may contain the member group California.

When setting properties for images (see ), the member groups are available as any other item in the list box, that way you may specify that a given image is from USA, if you don't remember where in USA it exactly is.