Bug 345589

Summary:	digikam title vs. gwenview headline
Product:	[Applications] gwenview	Reporter:	Knut Hildebrandt <post>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Gwenview Bugs <gwenview-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	alan.pater, justin.zobel, myriam
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Chakra
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Knut Hildebrandt 2015-03-27 20:25:06 UTC

I use digikam to write meta data into JPG files. But when I check the images in gwenview not all of the tags appear in the form. The title tag I fill in with digikam is not shown in gwenview. Instead there appears a headline tag that is empty.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open digikam
2. fill in title
3. write meta data into image file
4. open image in gwenview
5. go to Plugins/Image/Edit All Metadata
6. check in IPTC and XMP for title 

Actual Results:  
There is no title tag shown. The headline tag is greyed out. 

Expected Results:  
The title should be shown in the form.

I'm using digikam 4.8.0 and gwenview 4.14.0 pre in KDE 4.14.5. But it was the same in older versions of both programs.

Comment 1 Alan Pater 2015-05-19 10:52:53 UTC

Strange behaviour, but a couple of points.

1) To view rather then edit the Title, just use the sidebar. View > Sidebar > Information tab on the bottom. Then click the More link to specify what tags or properties you want displayed.

2) Plugins/Image/Edit All Metadata actually takes you to the Kipi-MetadataEdit plugin, same as in Digikam. Normally this would used for editing rather then viewing any tags and properties. But it seems to be disabled in Gwenview. All fields on all tabs are greyed out and one cannot navigate the different categories. That's likely a different bug then simply viewing the Title.

Comment 2 Alan Pater 2015-05-19 10:58:26 UTC

A bit of further research indicates that when the MetadataEdit plugin has everything greyed out, it is due to a library version conflict between gwenview and kipi-plugins. In my case, I have updated kipi-plugins but not gwenview.

Comment 3 Knut Hildebrandt 2015-05-19 17:41:46 UTC

I almost had forgotten about this bug report. Meanwhile I would mark it "solved" even though the "solution" is quite strange.

I had expected to find the Title under Content in gwenview. Since there is no Title field but only one for Headline I assumed this to be the one in question. That's wrong. If you click Status you will find the Title field which holds either the value of  Xmp.dc.title for XMP values or Iptc.Application2.ObjectName in case of IPTC. The only think that makes me wonder, why is the Title hidden under Status and not displayed under Content, where I would expect it.

Comment 4 Alan Pater 2015-05-19 18:04:47 UTC

I wish all applications would just follow Metadata Working Group guidelines and organize everything under Who, What, Where, When.

Many people don't want to know or care about the differences between EXIF, IPTC and XMP. Digikam mostly follows MWG guidelines, it looks like the kipi MetadataEditor and Gwenview have not caught up yet.

Comment 5 Justin Zobel 2020-11-12 05:53:07 UTC

Confirmed resolved in Comment 3