<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Please don't break the compability with darktable. :)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor@wanadoo.fr> </div><div>Date: 2018-01-07 5:52 AM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: Lightroom to DigiKam: reading xmp files </div><div><br></div></div>On dimanche 7 janvier 2018 11:21:07 CET Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>> In bug 278935 <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278935> i proposed a<br>> simple proof of concept patch to use LR sidecar naming scheme. It must work<br>> to test an import of LR files in DK, but it's so far not enough, because it<br>> will break backward compatibility with current sidecar naming scheme :<br>> typically with this patch, all current XMP sidecar previously generated by<br>> DK will be ignored.<br>> <br>> Gilles Caulier<br>> <br>> 2018-01-07 10:46 GMT+01:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles@gmail.com>:<br>> > Note : a report have already open about this topic :<br>> > <br>> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278935<br>> > <br>> > Gilles Caulier<br>> > <br>> > 2018-01-07 10:40 GMT+01:00 salinaale <salinaale@gmail.com>:<br>> >> I think that xmp files porpose is to facilitate interoperability between<br>> >> different sw...maybe the standard is silly ( i can't find the iso<br>> >> standard<br>> >> now ), but using different naming convention for xmp files, you are<br>> >> limiting<br>> >> the spread of this great product.<br>> >> i don't have a great experience, but i know that Lightroom and dxo ( i<br>> >> think<br>> >> are very widespread ) are using the filename.xmp naming convention.<br>> >> I can't create symlinks because i'm on win and not on linux, and i don't<br>> >> want to fill my disk with thousand of links.<br>> >> Maybe it could be possible to give the possibility to configure the name<br>> >> of<br>> >> xmp files?<br>> >> Just my 2 cents... It is a pity that an excellent software like digikam<br>> >> can<br>> >> not be used as a Lightroom alternative for a matter of standard-not<br>> >> standard.<br>> >> <br>> >> <br>> >> sorry for my english.. :)<br>> >> <br>> >> <br>> >> <br>> >> --<br>> >> Sent from: http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/digikam-users-f1735189.<br>> >> html<br><br>Going to a naming scheme of "<basename>.xmp" instead of "<basename>.<orig-<br>ext>.xmp" could break compatibility with Darktable, a raw convertor/editor <br>that's used by several users active here. <br><br>But can't you have a system where "<basename>.xmp" is used when there is no <br>eligible sidecar with the other possible name present? (i.e. first check for <br>presence of a sidecar with current naming, if not found try "<basename>.xmp")<br><br>Remco<br><br></body></html>