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

[Luka Renko]

On Saturday 27. of January 2007 18:20:40 Caulier Gilles wrote:
> > 1) When a user assigns tag A to 1500 images it takes some time to write
> > the DMetadata. After that, he wants to assign another tag to the same
> > images. Again, it takes considerable time. This means users will wish to
> > temporally disable writing.
> > An elegant solution is to implement (2).
> >
> > 2) Do the whole thing multithreaded.
>
> Yes, multithreading is fine, but take a care than DB interface is not yet
> thread-safe, in the case of pictures metadata and digiKAm metadata must be
> sync at the same time...

Or make one DMetadata update worker thread which gets assigned jobs to do and 
is execute in sequence...

Regards,
Luka