I have been using digikam for many years and writing labels (ratings, colors, etc) to xmp sidecars. I cannot get them to write now after many hours of trying. I think the problem started when I updated to Ubuntu 16.04 back in May but I am not sure of that as I just noticed. I had both digikam 4.12 and 5.01 installed and neither worked. I uninstalled both and reinstalled 5.01 and still does not work. It is writing to the digikam database because the ratings are still there after I close and open digikam. Under the configuration menu I have played with every every combination of writing metadata with no luck. Reproducible: Always
start digiKam from a console. What do you see as debug trace while you try to repeat the operation with different settings. Gilles Caulier
Nothing happens in the colsole. In the bottom right corner of digikam I get a message that says "Assign Image Rating". When I quit digikam I get the following. digikam.geoiface: ---- defaultServiceProvider::requestService(): no service found for - "org.qt-project.qt.mediaplayer" digikam.general: Cancel Main Thread digikam.general: Cancel Main Thread digikam.general: Cancel Main Thread digikam.general: Cancel Main Thread digikam.general: Cancel Main Thread digikam.general: Cancel Main Thread QThreadStorage: Thread 0x233a6c0 exited after QThreadStorage 16 destroyed QThreadStorage: Thread 0x233a6c0 exited after QThreadStorage 13 destroyed fischer@fischer-ThinkPad-T430s:~$
I forgot to mention in my first post, that I think I had a error when I first installed digikam. I did a few google searches and got digikam working with someone's suggestion. I looked through my history and could not find anything about the error. Sorry.
Can you reproduce the problem using digiKam Linux AppImage bundle ? The last bundle is available at this url: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM Gilles Caulier
I just installed and 5.4 and the issue is resolved. Thank you!