Version: 0.9.2-final (using KDE KDE 3.5.7KDE 1.2) Installed from: Mac OS X (Fink) PackagesMac OS X (Fink) Packages I am currently using Kphotoalbum (at the time I chose this solution to manage my pictures others options weren't as good). I am looking, with a lot of interest at digikam. But the fact that I already sorted around 5000 pictures (giving them tags) is making me uneasy! I am sure a tool to import other databases (in my case from kphotoalbum) into digikam would be a great improvement for digikam. This kind of tool would be a huge benefit to pictures manager software users. Thanks.
Bro, Agree. There is another file in B.K.O about to import metadata from Picasa. Gilles Caulier
I'm fiddling with that point also, using Kubuntu, and have started an small tool for reading the xml-file. The problem with the tags in KPhotoalbum is, that KPhotoalbum has an implicit usage of tag-hierarchy. Has anyone a idea hot to recognise it and how to transform the tags to the digiKam semantics?
http://userbase.kde.org/Image_Kimdaba#Synchronize_comments_between_KPhotoAlbum_and_digiKam may provide a workaround for the moment. Hope this helps.
(In reply to comment #3) > http://userbase.kde.org/ > Image_Kimdaba#Synchronize_comments_between_KPhotoAlbum_and_digiKam may > provide a workaround for the moment. Hope this helps. Well... I've tried it and it may have been working some time ago, but in between, the DB format has changed... still, it may be a starting point for a perl hacker motivated enough (which I'm not ;) :-/ Sorry.
However, note that there's an option of exporting taks from kphotoalbum to IPTC saved in the picture files, which may then be loaded by other programs like digikam. See an example script in http://blog.jesuislibre.org/2009/4/20/export-vos-donnees-de-kphotoalbum-vers-iptc/ to perform the export (may require a translation from french :-/)
(In reply to comment #5) > See an example script in > http://blog.jesuislibre.org/2009/4/20/export-vos-donnees-de-kphotoalbum-vers- > iptc/ to perform the export (may require a translation from french :-/) Translation done : http://www.olivierberger.com/weblog/public/kphotoalbum2iptc_pl.txt
As for iphoto import this kind of job must be delegate to external script using xmp metadata. See bug 132353