[Digikam-devel] [Bug 91812] wishlist: viewer/editor for IPTC meta data

Gerhard Kulzer gerhard at kulzer.net
Fri Jul 22 14:26:22 BST 2005


I totally agree, we have to think of the future. Digital photography has only 
just begun, and we'll see many more people storing photos on their computer. 
And we want to to stay OPENSOURCE, which also means multi-access methods to 
data. 
Gerhard

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> ------- Additional Comments From o.r-d laposte net  2005-07-22 11:05
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> In my opinion this more a requirement than a wish. Saving the tags in the
> image themself is the only reliable/good  solution.
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> With time the photo management systems / OS /databases will change and most
> probably the tags will be lost. The photos will stay so the tags MUST be
> inside.
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> In addition the current implementation where the database has a link to an
> image path is far too easy to break since it is possible( == normal ) to
> access the image directly through the filesystem.
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