Created attachment 131165 [details] example SUMMARY Hi, Dolphin doesn't show certain metadata (e.g. 'date photographed', 'width', 'height') of images in the details view mode. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. start Dolphin 2. navigate to a folder containing images 3. change to details view mode 4. make 'date photographed' column available OBSERVED RESULT The 'date photographed' column is empty. EXPECTED RESULT The 'date photographed' column shows the dates correctly. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Manjaro KDE Kernel Version: 5.7.15-1-MANJARO KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.73.0 Qt Version: 5.15.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 1. If I right-click on an image and select properties, then details, the date is correctly displayed in the last row ('Original Date Time'). 2. It would be awesome if I could sort my photos in chronological order. Currently, they can be sorted by filename or by modification date, but those sortings can become incorrect in certain cases, e.g. when the photos were taken by different devices (thus they're named differently) or some photos were edited (so their filename and/or modification date changes).
Do you have Baloo enabled?
(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #1) > Do you have Baloo enabled? I think yes, output of 'balooctl status' in terminal: Baloo File Indexer is running Indexer state: Idle Total files indexed: 6 167 Files waiting for content indexing: 0 Files failed to index: 0 Current size of index is 9,97 MiB
looks like it is enabled. I'm asking because judging by the code the column requires Baloo and once I turned it on the information is displayed for me. Can you please run balooshow on a file where you expect it to be shown and show the output here?
input: [...@... test]$ balooshow IMG_20180813_121043.jpg output: 3545967949316866 66306 825610 IMG_20180813_121043.jpg [/home/.../Pictures/test/IMG_20180813_121043.jpg] Mtime: 1552470148 2019-03-13T10:42:28 Ctime: 1598354047 2020-08-25T13:14:07
Seems like Baloo didn't extract the information. Otherwise we'd see a "Original Date Time" line here. That explains why Dolphin doesn't display it. Do you have "Also index file content" enabled in the File Search settings? Reassigning to Baloo now
So I enabled 'Also index file content' and restarted baloo, and now the output of 'balooshow' of the image file shows all the metadata. However, my problem now is that Dolphin, in the 'Date photographed' column shows the 'Image Date Time' data from the balooshow output, and not the 'Original Date Time' data. It is problematic for me, because whenever I edit an image file, the 'Image Date Time' data changes to the date of the modification. I think it would be better if Dolphin used the 'Original Date Time' data in the 'Date photographed' column.
Created attachment 131193 [details] example2
In reply to Jacob from comment #4) > [...@... test]$ balooshow IMG_20180813_121043.jpg You'd need to try a "-x": balooshow -x IMG_20180813_121043.jpg to see the indexed metadata. ( ... comment #6) > ... the 'Date photographed' column > shows the 'Image Date Time' data from the balooshow output, and not the > 'Original Date Time' data ... I see the same - and agree that if the column/property is "Date Photographed" then the implication is the original date and time: photoDateTimeOriginal Worth flagging as Confirmed...