[Digikam-devel] Search selection of all IPTC metadata fields

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 09:07:09 GMT 2012


Veaceslav,

it's not too hard in fact. I will post some pointers from source code
into bugzilla entry...

Gilles Caulier

2012/2/10 Veaceslav Munteanu <slavuttici at gmail.com>:
> Gilles, how hard is to implement this? If already few fields are already
> implemented, it will be hard for my students add some extra?
>
> maybe i could propose this task to my students...
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Julia,
>>
>> Because it's not yet implemented :
>>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180268
>>
>> digiKam project is not like Apple or Adobe softwares. We don't have 50
>> engineers working in the background  (:=)))...
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> 2012/2/9 Julia Jacobson <julia.jacobson at arcor.de>:
>> > Dear digiKam developers,
>> >
>> > Your software is excellent and it's a pleasure to use it.
>> > On the user mailing list, I already asked to no success, whether there
>> > is the
>> > possibility to search a selection of all IPTC metadata fields for the
>> > photos in
>> > an album.
>> > As far as I can see, the advanced search is restricted to the IPTC
>> > fields
>> > "Caption", "Author", "Headline" and "Title".
>> > Is there a certain reason why digiKam lacks the ability to search the
>> > other
>> > fields like for example "Sublocation" or "Copyright"? Would the
>> > implementation
>> > of this feature cause many difficulties?
>> > Although it has its own problems with other features, Apple's Aperture
>> > does for
>> > example offer this type of search.
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> > Julia
>> >
>> >
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>
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> Veaceslav
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