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

[Jens B.Benecke]

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------- Additional Comments From jens-bugs.kde.org spamfreemail de  2006-10-24 11:11 -------
Yes, saving originals is important. I would vote for Digikam to save a backup whenever doing modifications (even when only inserting EXIF/IPTC tags or rotating the image). The code could be very simple:

 does "filename.jpg.orig" exist?
   -> give the thumbnail an icon that hints at the existence of a backup
   -> show "Revert to original" in context menu
   -> do not save a backup when editing

No fancy versioning, history or whatever. No fancy pathname mangling or anything - just append ".orig" to the file name and hide it from within digikam. Files named "*.orig" are not displayed in Digikam anyway, so this would not pose a problem with pre-existing filenames. And anyway, if a file named *.orig exists already, it is probably a backup copy anyway, so Digikam would do "the right thing" here.

Don't be "too flexible" at the cost of being too complicated, or never implemented. You can't make it right for every niche case.

Jens