Digikam won't display or import thumbnails on my system. I can download pictures from the camera but the only way I can be sure the download was successful is to use Digikam's Album menu & open the album in konqueror.

Here is the error message I get if I try to import an existing album:

Can't start process. Unable to create io_slave:
Klauncher said: unknown protocol digikamalbums

I am pretty sure this happens because I have kde-3.5.6 installed in my home directory. If I could find a digikam.rpm file that was relocatable I'd try to install it to ~/home/kde-3.5.6/bin instead of the default /usr/bin. Maybe digikam isn't telling kde-3.5.6 about the digikamalbums protocol because it can't find the new kde.

Digikam could be telling my inactive kde-3.4.2 in /usr/bin about its digikamalbums protocol instead of the live kde-3.5.6. I'm only guessing here because you would think the digikam installation proceedure would be smart enough to check my KDEDIR=~/kde-3.5.6 environment entry before it installs.

If anyone has a suggestion, I would appreciate hearing from you. Even a short explaination of how klauncher works would be welcome. Thank you.