[Digikam-devel] [Bug 110598] New: synchronize digikam comments to existing embedded comments

[Herman]

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           Summary: synchronize digikam comments to existing embedded
                    comments
           Product: digikam
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: herman.roozenbeek tiscali nl


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

I would like to see an extra option in the 'Embedded Image Information' configuration to synchronize Digikam's own image comments to any pre-existing embedded (EXIF/JFIF) image comments.

This option should be selectable when the option 'save image comments to EXIF comments in JPEG images' is turned on. For my purposes it would suffice when the synchronization only affects images without a Digikam comment.

Background: Embedded comments are more portable than Digikam comments, but they are not as flexible when used in Digikam. For example, it is not possible to edit embedded comments as such. This will become apparent when an image is imported from another Digikam user: this image may have an embedded comment, but the Digikam comment (which should be identical) has disappeared. (This has also happened to me when moving images around in my own albums.) Although the embedded comment can be viewed to some extent when the appropriate option is turned on, editing is not possible. Rather than manually copying all the embedded comments, I would have an option do that for me automatically. Taken together, the existing EXIF comment option and the proposed one (which basically works the other way around) should guarantee (at least to some extent) that both types of image comments will stay synchronized.