Bug 356065

Summary:	Baloo metadata not written out by Album
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Jeff Dooley <jfd5xte>
Component:	Database-Baloo	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	7.3.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Jeff Dooley 2015-11-29 10:41:51 UTC

With the option "Store metadata from digikam in Baloo" selected...

... when I select an individual image and apply a set of tags, those tags seem to correctly be reflected as tags in the Dolphin Information Panel (via Baloo extended attributes).

However, "Album > Write Metadata to Images" does NOT seem to store the metadata into Baloo, or make those tags accessible via Dolphin.  This is important because I would like to avoid having to individually select each image to make (previously assigned) tags accessible to Baloo.

My installation:
Kubuntu 15.10
Digikam 4.12.0
KDE Frameworks 5.15.0

Thank you!

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2015-11-29 12:39:43 UTC

The problem is mostly in Ballo implementation. With KDE4 nothing is maintained and developers swith to KF5 to support Baloo.

So i recommend to test with digiKam 5.0.0-beta1 which is KF5 based.

Note : Baloo sound like more and more difficult to follow and make digiKam very unstable.
digiKam team have talk seriously about the future to support Baloo, and if the situation do not change ASAP, well we will drop Baloo support as well...

Gilles Caulier

Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2016-07-04 13:59:39 UTC

This file still valid using digiKam 5.0.0 ?

Gilles Caulier

Comment 3 Jeff Dooley 2016-07-15 07:19:18 UTC

(In reply to caulier.gilles from comment #2)
> This file still valid using digiKam 5.0.0 ?

Update to my now current setup:
Kubuntu 16.04
Plasma 5.6.5 installed via ppa:/kubuntu-backports
Frameworks 5.23.0 installed via ppa:/kubuntu-backports
Qt 5.5.1 (unknown package source)
Digikam 5.0.0 installed via ppa:/philip5/extra


I attempted to reproduce test case #1 of a newly tagged file, and test case #2 of previously tagged files with metadata refreshed. Unfortunately, I am not currently seeing the metadata transferred to the file extended attributes at all, at least when testing using the Dolphin information panel. Could still be an installation/set-up issue, but I wanted to at least report my current findings.

Thanks for following up.

Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2020-08-02 13:24:32 UTC

digiKam 7.0.0 stable release is now published:

https://www.digikam.org/news/2020-07-19-7.0.0_release_announcement/

We need a fresh feedback on this file using this version.

Best Regards

Gilles Caulier

Comment 5 Maik Qualmann 2021-03-24 18:15:16 UTC

Fixed with Bug 433984 and Bug 434060

Maik