Bug 94362

Summary: Change permissions while importing images
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Arent <arent>
Component: Import-PostProcessingAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.6.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 5.8.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Arent 2004-12-04 01:58:27 UTC 
Version:           0.6.2 (using KDE KDE 3.3.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

For security reasons, all of my pictures are held in a "master archive" with write permissions disabled (even for the owner). If importing (copying) from this archive via DigiKam, these permissions become contraproductive since image operations aren't allowed. I would suggest providing something like a checkbox so that write permissions would be automatically changed when copying to a DigiKam album.

Maybe this feature sounds rather esoteric, but in fact it keeps me from using DigiKam. With write permissions on a master archive enabled, the workflow for using DigiKam is way to complicated.
Comment 1 Tom Albers 2005-03-06 18:40:45 UTC 
Just want to let you know that in KDE 4 it will be possible to copy images and change the write permissions. So we will not implement it until then.
Comment 2 Guenter Schwann 2005-08-21 13:19:50 UTC 
This feature would be really handy. Because if you have pictures from an anlog camera, one often gets them not only printed on paper, but digitalized on CD too. So if you import them from the CD you can't edit those picture (rotate for example). Waiting for KDE4 means waiting for at least 1.5 years for this tiny feature that would improve usability _a_lot_!
Comment 3 Andi Clemens 2008-12-03 11:18:40 UTC 
> Waiting for KDE4 means waiting for at least 1.5 years

;-)
Well it took 3 years... anyway is this still valid? Somebody wanted to implement this, if I'm not wrong, at least there where talks in IRC 2 or 3 months ago.

Andi
Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2011-08-12 10:02:01 UTC 
Yes, i think it's implemented...

Gilles Caulier
Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2017-12-16 13:59:00 UTC 
This problem is not reproducible using current 5.8.0 pre-release bundle
available here :

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

I close this file now. Re-open it if necessary.

Gilles Caulier