[Digikam-devel] What do we want to store in the database?

[Arnd Baecker]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Colin Guthrie wrote:

> Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
> > Currently I have these fields on my list:
> >
> > - comment
>
> I think Multiple Comments is essential. But also comments need to be
> qualified more than just a simple text stream. Gilles mentioned 4
> strings to be stored but I'm not sure what they all are. My suggestion
> would be:
>  * Source
>  * Who/Author
>  * Language
>  * Comment
>
> Here the Source would 99.99% of the time be "Digikam" but hopefully this
> interface can be exposed via e.g. Facebook/Flickr via Kipi plugin and
> under these circumstances the Source would be set accordingly. Language
> I think should be optional seeing as external comments may not have this
> information associated with them.

Just to add one more wish, I think it would be nice
to have comments associated to a tag (and maybe also to an album).
I filed a wish for this at
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149372

Best, Arnd