[Digikam-devel] [Bug 155374] Allow setting Image titles different than image file name

[Siu Chung Cheung (Clement)]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155374


Siu Chung (Clement) Cheung <clement.cc at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Siu Chung (Clement) Cheung <clement cc gmail com>  2009-12-18 04:53:28 ---
Same here. Digikam 1.0.0. The new metadata template is very nice actually but
it doesn't include picture title.

Gilles, I think what Treviño is trying to do is to have the image title set
automatically when it's uploaded to Flickr. Currently the Digikam kipi
interface code always set the image title to the file name during upload.

Why not just rename?
Sometimes I took a dozen penguin pictures and I want all their titles to be
"Penguin". My unoriginal titles are not allowed because I cannot have multiple
files with the same name. Also, renaming changes the file sorting order.

What he's trying to do can actually be accomplished by setting the "headline"
IPTC tag in Image->Metadata->Edit IPTC. Flickr will then pick it up and set the
title automatically. It's actually a pretty good workaround for the time-being.
But it has a few drawbacks:

1. Unlike caption/comments, it's not synced with the XMP headline tag.
Perfectionists will have to set it twice.
2. The menu item is buried too deep. Would be nice to be able to put that in
the image description tab where the comments and tags are.
3. Some services (Zooomr) doesn't parse the IPTC headline tag. The title will
be overridden by the file name.
4. Some services (Picasa) doesn't support titles. If the application itself is
aware of titles and such, it can prepend the title in the comments area for a
more graceful degradation on those web sites.
5. Would be nice to show the title in the main album view, together with the
comments and tags.

Actually I think I can help with the coding if you don't mind me being slower.
I'm quite busy but I do want this feature rather badly. :-)


And FYI, the kipi Picasa export plugin currently use a tags QMap with titles as
keys to remember the tags during the upload process. If we add this feature,
that will break because titles are no longer guaranteed unique. A fix will be
to use a QHash with the pointer to the kjob as key. (Same as what I did to
remember the metadata XML in Bug 199145.) That appears to be what QSignalMapper
does internally. So I'd assume it's a reasonably correct approach...

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