Version: 0.6.2 (using KDE KDE 3.3.1) Installed from: Gentoo Packages For security reasons, all of my pictures are held in a "master archive" with write permissions disabled (even for the owner). If importing (copying) from this archive via DigiKam, these permissions become contraproductive since image operations aren't allowed. I would suggest providing something like a checkbox so that write permissions would be automatically changed when copying to a DigiKam album. Maybe this feature sounds rather esoteric, but in fact it keeps me from using DigiKam. With write permissions on a master archive enabled, the workflow for using DigiKam is way to complicated.
Just want to let you know that in KDE 4 it will be possible to copy images and change the write permissions. So we will not implement it until then.
This feature would be really handy. Because if you have pictures from an anlog camera, one often gets them not only printed on paper, but digitalized on CD too. So if you import them from the CD you can't edit those picture (rotate for example). Waiting for KDE4 means waiting for at least 1.5 years for this tiny feature that would improve usability _a_lot_!
> Waiting for KDE4 means waiting for at least 1.5 years ;-) Well it took 3 years... anyway is this still valid? Somebody wanted to implement this, if I'm not wrong, at least there where talks in IRC 2 or 3 months ago. Andi
Yes, i think it's implemented... Gilles Caulier
This problem is not reproducible using current 5.8.0 pre-release bundle available here : https://files.kde.org/digikam/ I close this file now. Re-open it if necessary. Gilles Caulier