Version: (using Devel) Compiler: gcc4.3.2 OS: Linux Installed from: Compiled sources Writing of digiKam metadata into picture tags should be enabled by default for two reasons: a) interoperability - when exchanging pictures with other people/machines all data will be already there without problems b) usability - the best place to view data about picture is Metadata panel but it contains only metadata from image itself; so if user will add it in digiKam and switch to Metadata panel it will be invisible in this panel There are two cons I am aware of: 1) privacy - some tags, comments may be personal and user doesn't want to make them globally visible 2) performance - writing of data in image takes some time; but IMO with current systems this isn't really obstacle
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