[Digikam-devel] Usage of metadata editor dialog

[Caulier Gilles]

Mikolaj ,

Thanks for this great feedback. I will respond to all points later. Let's me 
some time to parse your report (:=)))

Gilles


Le vendredi 17 novembre 2006 20:54, Mikolaj Machowski a écrit :
> Hello,
>
>
> Now, when crashes had gone away we can really use metadata editor.
>
> 1. Isn't it possible to grey out empty textareas? It would give some
>    unity of look for all empty fields.
> 2. Stuff with greying out of unchecked fields isn't clear. Content of
>    field will stay for "session" with current image but whey you OK
>    changes it will be removed. What is a purpose of this checkbox?
>    Probably I don't understand something.
> 3. Exif metadata syncing of User comments. Great, great, great :)
>    *cough* Of course... *cough* ;)
>
>    a) "sync with host application". Is it possible to put there real
>       name? More user friendly.
>    b) Beside IPTC option should be warning about ASCII limitation
>    c) When I put some phrase there and edit later in Digikam comment
>       field at the end, later return to Exif editor I see some garbage
>       at the end of field. Only in Exif editor, in Digikam it is clean.
>       Correction: even without editing in Digikam when I return to Exif
>       editor I see garbage at the end.
>    d) Syncing IPTC caption -> Exif and Digikam (host)? While this is
>       definitely non interesting for non-ASCII users (and potentially
>       disastrous) for English natives it may be interesting possibility
>       (due to limitation it should be turned off by default)
>
> 4. Different implementation of mass editing between Exif and IPTC.
>
>    a) Choose four images.
>    b) Edit Exif.
>    c) Fill caption "asdf", and OK.
>
>    Only first image is described with "asdf". Repeat for IPTC, all
>    four images will be described.
>
> 5. Different behaviour when some images had previous descriptions:
>
>    a) You have four images: 1,2,3,4.
>    b) Add caption to 1: "asdf".
>    c) Add caption to 4: "qwer".
>    d) Select all four images.
>    e) Open editor, in 1 you see "asdf".
>    f) Go to 2, you still see "asdf".
>    g) Change caption to "zxcv".
>    i) Go to 3. You still see "zxvc", similar behaviour to editing with
>       empty fields, do nothing.
>    j) Go to 4. You see "qwer".
>    k) Click OK.
>
>    You could expect captions will be:
>
>    	1:"asdf", 2:"zxcv", 3:"zxcv", 4:"qwer".
>
>    But no, there are:
>
>    	1:"asdf", 2:"zxcv", 3:{empty}, 4:"qwer".
>
>    IMO 3 *should* be "zxcv".
>
>    WARNING: you should check this going through images individually,
>    when using multiple selection in caption will be value of previously
>    visited caption (2->3, "zxcv"; 4->3, "qwer").
>
>    Unfortunately I don't see good solution for this. Adding buttons
>    beside fields: "Apply to all", "Apply to all empty" would be the best
>    from functionality but it would have to be done for ALL buttons
>    - horrible interface.
>
> HTH.
>
> m.
>
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