[Digikam-devel] [Bug 103350] its too easy to save images

[Malte Zacharias]

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------- Additional Comments From malte.zacharias nordakademie de  2006-10-24 01:41 -------
Well, I couldn't disagree more, the *only* thing that I dislike or even hate with digikam is that it just destroys my precious originals. After a session of photographing with my camera, I usually get at least a hundred pictures. I can't see why I should be forced to *manually* save a backup copy of each one, entering a dedicated name and spending hours with that every time I import my pictures. The often proposed solution, retaining the original (there is only one original, the one imported from the camera, may it be raw, may it be JPEG, may it be any other file) is one simple to implement and effectful. Even if you have to redo all of your edits, that's still a lot better than just having nothing to start from again. Also, I usually use Image Editor for the basic shots, so I can edit them quickly and to be able to present them to my audience. Later on I'd like to go back to the shots worth a second look and spend some more time with serious editing. I just can't believe, that something as precious and important as the unchanged file, the root and source of all further work just gets deleted forever as soon as I start editing it. Retaining the first imported file neither enforces much complexity applicationwise nor confusion userside, it should be possible to be disabled, but it should be present. 
Version management would be cool but not so widely used IMHO. Still, this would at least be lots better than losing the shots it took you hours to align...