Bug 192024

Summary: Smart sidecard files handling
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Michal Thoma <michal>
Component: Metadata-SidecarAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.0.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian stable   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 7.1.0

Description Michal Thoma 2009-05-08 12:28:06 UTC 
Version:           0.10 (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages

Most raw conversion tools used nowdays creates sidecard files where the conversion parameters are stored (i.e. RawTherapee, UFRaw).

Unfortunately all image cataloguing tools including Digikam ignores these sidecards so when the image is copied or moved to another location via Digikam, developement parameters are lost in the process.

It would be fancy to have possibility to define sidecard files which will be treated as the part of the image file and moved&copied with that.

Naming pattern for sidecards is invariably rather simple - for "imgp001.dng" the sidecars would be "imgp001.xxx" or "imgp001.dng.xxx". So in fact only extension matters (PP2 for RAWTherapee and so on.)

Also displaying some icon as an indication that image has sidecard would be fancy.

Right now I defined my RawThreapee sidecard as image file so at least I can see it's there, though having smart sidecard handling would be much easier.
Comment 1 Mikolaj Machowski 2009-05-10 21:45:09 UTC 
In terms of organization it depends on Bug 126149 but this report is less specific. Bug 126149 is precisely about RAW+JPEG and this is about all files with the same name and different extensions. Note: this is different than photo-stacks where user should be able to group similar photos.
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2010-06-07 10:03:16 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 220545 ***
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2020-08-30 15:40:37 UTC 
Fixed with bug #220545