| Summary: | make writing of metadata to picture enabled by default | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] digikam | Reporter: | Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach> |
| Component: | Setup-Metadata | Assignee: | Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | knizek |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 1.0.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | 1.0.0 | |
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Description
Mikolaj Machowski
2009-07-10 14:01:04 UTC
Note : from First Run Assistant, digiKam will ask you about this subject... Gilles Caulier Let me rephrase: make this option default in First Run Assistant :) Mik, I remember some old inflamed threads about this subject in users mailing list : some users never want to touch image and let's meta-data preserved as well, some others want it for a better interoperability. For me, current behavior is enough and clear. The user want to store digiKam info to images : he set-up this. Question: which is the behavior from other photo-management programs ? Gilles Hi, I am (pretty strongly) against enabling by default, to write digiKam metadata into picture tags. Reason: for many people original images are like negatives and should not not be touched at all. People which want to have meta-data embedded should activate writing conciously. Concerning a) people who want to interoperate with other software can activate it if necessary (there surely are quite a few people which do not need to work with other software ...;-) b) About the display in the metadata-panel: maybe the information stored within the database should be displayed as well (if it is not stored in the image files themselves)? Best, Arnd I used to use Cumulus CMS in MS Windows several years ago - after migration to linux, I have lost days of tagging work. This taught me what interoperability is good for.
Then, I have been using MaPiVi until now - a perl script, in fact, with GUI not very user-friendly, buth highly effective in tagging pictures (and keeping metadata in images), it supported EXIF and IPTC for many years now and also basic loss-less operations on JPEGs. Works in MS Windows and linux.
Now, switching from MaPiVi to digiKam was rather simple - I just had to change the way how tags hierarchy is created ("/" instead of ".") using a bash script and exiv2.
Actually, I still use MaPiVi in paralel, because I cannot easily modify location IPTC tags in digiKam for a number of images.
FotoStation saves everything in images. That's the idea behind the program. I will close this as WONTFIX but Andi's idea from 4.b is a nice one. Hey it wasn't me :D Credits go to Arnd |