[Digikam-devel] Re: Versioning, but not editing in digiKam

[Gert Kello]

>> 2. When I apply some keywords/tags/metadata, I want to apply them to all
>> versions at the same time. That could be descriptions or keywords,
>> author, copyright, etc. But sometimes I want to apply metadata or tags
>> to only one specific version. Both should be possible.

+1 to the request ;)

>
> Should that be decided by setup option, or do you have some UI suggestions for
> this differentiation?

I would think about having per-image-version option "Enable
version-specific meta-data", and with option to copy meta-data from
parent items (or it is copied by default but an be cleared by single
button click). In ideal world copy/clear could be configured, like
"copy tags but not exif data"

Gert