[Digikam-devel] [Bug 114465] Wish: simpler entry of tags

[Harshad Sharma]

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------- Additional Comments From harshad.sharma gmail com  2007-05-04 15:32 -------
If for some reason, 12 comments isn't enough sample from the community, I'd like to add one more...

I have been used to annotating my photographs. I also use IPTC tags: creator, copyright, location, city, state, country, headline/title, description and of course loads of keywords.

I had been trying to switch my workflow to completely open source software for a long time. Finally, after DigiKam 0.9, I took the decision and the plunge... it has been a fantastic experience so far. I feel much more 'at home' with PCBSD/FreeBSD and KDE... DigiKam is fantastic... with a few quirks that are tolerable. But it seems that DigiKam just doesn't want me to actually do anything useful with keywords!

First of all - the tags list is populated with hundreds of my original tags - and it is IMPOSSIBLE to select more than one and move them around - so I can't really get myself to set it up in hierarchy. Moreover - it is again very very difficult to tag a complete photo shoot withing 10 minutes because every time I want to select a specific tag, I have to first search for it... then click on the little checkbox to enable it. When a complete shoot will need about 10 common keywords and each set of photos might need another 10 individual keywords... this UI is cumbersome and unrealistic to get things done.

Freeform tagging means a lot to me. I'm installing KPhotoAlbum as I type this (got reference from a post above) only because I have this OCD for keywording all my photographs.

I really wish that the developers are able to find some time to work on this!  And I'm writing all this not because I'm pissed... but because You Rock! And you can do it! :-D