[Digikam-devel] [Bug 103201] Wish: easy transport of albums, including tags, comments, etc.

[Loïc Brarda]

My 2 `centimes d'euro` :
For what I've seen on photoshop generated jpeg with xmp, I don't
really like xmp :
   - Huge chunk of non compressed text (I enclose the copy of a nearly
empty one from a file I've found on the web, I've seen files with much
more data with several time the same info)
  - Of course, we all have plenty of memory, disc space and cpu power
we want to throw away don't we ?

That's what I like in IPTC: it only uses the space for the data we
want to include and for me, there no big missing feature in it.
I think I remember reading something about the possible use of UTF-8
in IPTC but I can't find it back. There is something on page 52 of the
IIMV4.1 specification about UTF-8. It seems that other applications
don't care about character set. I think that for that character set
problem, a flag in the settings to use utf-8 or pure ascii will be
nice. Perhaps also a flag in an export function to convert to pure
ascii. With that two things, people like me with languages full of
accents can be happy, and still be able to share the pictures with
people with badly programmed windows applications ;-)
( I can speak of badly programmed things as I just updated not so long
ago my hack/patch on the kfile_jpeg plugin to support character sets)

Unfortunatly, I don't have enought time to take part in digikam main
developpment (I can hardly follow all these interesting discussions in
this mailing list). I may try to work a little on some kipi plugins
but I can't engage myself as it will be very slow)

Please see also my comment in the following bug about a possible way
to handle some IPTC (and maybe XMP) information :
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91812#c15

     Loic
P.S.: that was a big message.