[Digikam-devel] reading lens description

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 15:16:55 GMT 2009


2009/1/20 Matthias Welwarsky <matze at welwarsky.de>

> On Tuesday 20 January 2009 15:12:33 Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
> > > > Matthias,
> > > >
> > > > Where are you set this tag in code? give us a patch against svn
> > > > please...
> > >
> > > I've downloaded the current beta release, so I've attached a patch
> > > against that one. Note that it contains also a change to correctly read
> > > the exposure time from RAW files.
> >
> > Thanks, but that's already fixed in SVN ;-)
>
> very good!
>
> > > > When you said that code is not executed, in which conditions exactly
> ?
> > >
> > > When displaying the EXIF content in the "Metadata" or "Properties"
> > > sidepanel, and when updating the metadata database of all Albums from
> the
> > > "Tools" menu.
> >
> > "Update Metadata Database" is a strong misnomer. It does not do that. It
> > writes tags, rating and comment from db to the file's metadata, sorry.
>
> Aaargh, you mean it's actually altering my photos when I do that?!
>
> > Currently you can't force a full rescan, the value is for the Properties
> > table always taken from database, the Metadata panel just displays all
> > values, does not use getLensDescription.
>
> So in order to have the changes take effect, one would need to initiate a
> full
> album rescan and update of the database, correct? Is there a way to do
> that,
> in the backend, if not in UI? I can probably patch the UI and add that
> action
> to the tools menu. I just need something to test my modifications there.
>
> > We need to re-organize the synchronize/update methods, but tomorrow is
> > string freeze and the planned batch manager is desirable for this as
> well.
>
> Well, if there's a string freeze, I hope you can push a change to the
> "Update
> Metadata Database" before. It's really very much misleading. "Update Image
> Metadata" would be way more appropriate.



Marcel,

In all cases, strings will be frozen when a dedicated announce will be sent
to kde-doc-i18n mailing list. This can be delayed a little, or if necessary
can be moved to rc2 release.

Gilles
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