[Digikam-devel] [Bug 227814] New: "Write metadata immediately" option

[Michal Thoma]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227814

           Summary: "Write metadata immediately" option
           Product: digikam
           Version: 1.1.0
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: michal at thoma.cz


Version:           1.1.0 (using KDE 4.4.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I was just tagging huge collection of images during which I experienced some
inconvenience with current metedata writing policy in Digikam.

In Preferences i can decide if I want to write certain metadata to files or
store it in database only (faster).

When I select to write metadata to files, the changing of rating, captions or
anything immediately triggers writing new values to files. Though this can
significantly slow down workflow when I want to tag huge collection of of
files.

So I would like to metadata to be written to database only and synchronize it
later. Right now I have to do this:

1 - Unchecking all six options in Metadata Preferences dialog ("Save image tag
as Keywords in metadata embeded in files" and others )
2 - Doing my taging
3 - Checking again all 6 options
4 - Triggering metadata synchronization of selected files or all files.

It's quite apparent that this is pretty inconvenient. So I would like to have
single opition to prevent immediate writing metadata. Preferably the button for
turing this behaviour on and off should be somewhere easily accesible - in
status bar or so.

Another suggestion for this issue was alredy submitead as delayed writing of
metadata here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218730

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