Bug 149541

Summary:	Support to import albums from KPhotoAlbum
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Bro <bro.dudu>
Component:	Database-Engine	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles, kde-bugs, oberger
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.9.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	8.1.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Bro 2007-09-04 17:56:24 UTC

Version:           0.9.2-final (using KDE KDE 3.5.7KDE 1.2)
Installed from:    Mac OS X (Fink) PackagesMac OS X (Fink) Packages

I am currently using Kphotoalbum (at the time I chose this solution to manage my pictures others options weren't as good). 
I am looking, with a lot of interest at digikam. But the fact that I already sorted around 5000 pictures (giving them  tags) is making me uneasy!

I am sure a tool to import other databases (in my case from kphotoalbum) into digikam would be a great improvement for digikam.

This kind of tool would be a huge benefit to pictures manager software users.

Thanks.

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2007-09-04 18:02:18 UTC

Bro,

Agree. There is another file in B.K.O about to import metadata from Picasa.

Gilles Caulier

Comment 2 Ulf Michaelis 2008-02-20 20:36:39 UTC

I'm fiddling with that point also, using Kubuntu, and have started an small tool for reading the xml-file.
The problem with the tags in KPhotoalbum is, that KPhotoalbum has an implicit usage of tag-hierarchy. Has anyone a idea hot to recognise it and how to transform the tags to the digiKam semantics?

Comment 3 Olivier Berger 2013-04-06 19:55:16 UTC

http://userbase.kde.org/Image_Kimdaba#Synchronize_comments_between_KPhotoAlbum_and_digiKam may provide a workaround for the moment. Hope this helps.

Comment 4 Olivier Berger 2013-04-06 21:45:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> http://userbase.kde.org/
> Image_Kimdaba#Synchronize_comments_between_KPhotoAlbum_and_digiKam may
> provide a workaround for the moment. Hope this helps.

Well... I've tried it and it may have been working some time ago, but in between, the DB format has changed... still, it may be a starting point for a perl hacker motivated enough (which I'm not ;) :-/

Sorry.

Comment 5 Olivier Berger 2013-04-06 21:48:18 UTC

However, note that there's an option of exporting taks from kphotoalbum to IPTC saved in the picture files, which may then be loaded by other programs like digikam.

See an example script in http://blog.jesuislibre.org/2009/4/20/export-vos-donnees-de-kphotoalbum-vers-iptc/ to perform the export (may require a translation from french :-/)

Comment 6 Olivier Berger 2013-04-07 13:28:19 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> See an example script in
> http://blog.jesuislibre.org/2009/4/20/export-vos-donnees-de-kphotoalbum-vers-
> iptc/ to perform the export (may require a translation from french :-/)

Translation done : http://www.olivierberger.com/weblog/public/kphotoalbum2iptc_pl.txt

Comment 7 caulier.gilles 2023-05-14 16:21:41 UTC

As for iphoto import this kind of job must be delegate to external script using xmp metadata. See  bug 132353