Bug 152520

Summary: unified entry of metadata
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach>
Component: Plugin-Generic-MetadataEditAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 0.2.0

Description Mikolaj Machowski 2007-11-18 21:47:51 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

Currently in digiKam user see in Metadata menu with 8 options:

Edit IPTC
Remove IPTC
Import IPTC
Edit EXIF
Remove EXIF
Import EXIF
Edit Captions
Remove Captions

In near future there will be additional 3 entries about XMP. This is confusing and in many cases unnecessary. It would be great if in Metadata would be something like:

Edit
Remove
Import
Advanced >

In first three entries user would got smart form which would try to synchronize entries in all systems of metadata. In Advanced sub-menu will be entries split into separate systems.
Comment 1 x3ri7yz02 2007-12-01 04:36:25 UTC 
I like the idea here - having synchronised entry for the different metadata types.  Obviously one problem will be that the different standards (IPTC/EXIF/XMP) support different field lengths, character types etc etc....

Presumably if you activated and used this feature, you would be restricted to the lowest common denominator?
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2008-12-08 10:12:18 UTC 
> "you would be restricted to the lowest common denominator"

Absolutely. This is why is will never fix it.

Gilles Caulier