[Digikam-devel] How to apply changes in digikams IPTC settings to all tagged photos?

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Mardi 23 Janvier 2007 18:58, Daniel Bauer a écrit :
> sorry, I wasn't aware that these settings overwrite existing photographer
> identity, credit and copyright metadata...
>
> hmmm...
>
> I thought, these Metadata parts will only be written to pictures that do
> not have them yet. In this case I think, to make it clearer, in the
> settings it should be "Save/overwrite existing".
>
> Even better: an additional option like "automatically overwrite if
> existing?"
>
> Or: asking before overwriting, like "should copyright etc. be overwritten
> with defaults?", eventually with "don't ask again", and a setting "ask
> before overwriting?".
>
> Why:
> for example, in some pictures I want to have "Credit A" and in others
> "Credit B". If I have "A" in the settings and add a tag to a "B"-picture,
> it will have "A" afterwards.

No need to overwrite something with existing Copyright IPTC tags : these tags 
can be redondant (like IPTC keywords). In fact, we can have multiple 
copyright for a same image...

The metadata rule must be fixed to preserve existing tags witch can be 
redondant. For other one, question stil open : settings or not settings ?

Gilles