[Digikam-devel] [Bug 199667] New: make writing of metadata to picture enabled by default

[Mikolaj Machowski]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199667

           Summary: make writing of metadata to picture enabled by default
           Product: digikam
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Metadata
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: mikmach at wp.pl


Version:            (using Devel)
Compiler:          gcc4.3.2 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Writing of digiKam metadata into picture tags should be enabled by default for
two reasons:

a) interoperability - when exchanging pictures with other people/machines all
data will be already there without problems
b) usability - the best place to view data about picture is Metadata panel but
it contains only metadata from image itself; so if user will add it in digiKam
and switch to Metadata panel it will be invisible in this panel

There are two cons I am aware of:

1) privacy - some tags, comments may be personal and user doesn't want to make
them globally visible
2) performance - writing of data in image takes some time; but IMO with current
systems this isn't really obstacle

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