[Digikam-devel] What are the Metadata/XMP Viewer settings for?

[Simon A. Eugster]

On 14.09.2010 21:04, Michael G. Hansen wrote:
> On 09/14/2010 08:59 AM, Simon A. Eugster wrote:
>> In Preferences>   Metadata I can check boxes. At the moment none of them are
>> checked. What are they good for? There is no Shift-F1 text or other help
>> text at all.
>
> When you use the EXIF/XMP properties tab on the right side of digikam,
> you can either show all metadata or just a list of items that you find
> interesting (there are two buttons at the top in this tab). With the
> Preferences->Metadata settings, you select the entries which should be
> shown in the summary mode. IIRC by default some are shown there, but
> this is not initially synched with the settings somehow.

Ah. That's something that distracted me.


>> And is it correct that digikam writes tags to EXIF, IPTC, and XMP sections
>> (to all of them, not only one)? This is what I observe (tags appear in
>> EXIF, IPTC, and XMP) but don't read in the config dialog either.
>
> I think this can be set by the option "Save image tags as keywords in
> files" in the configuration dialog, and this affects store to all
> sections at once.

Okay, thanks. Clear now.

Could these two explanations be added in the config dialog? Checkboxes 
alone are not very helpful, and I actually know digikam for being 
well-documented.

Simon