[Digikam-devel] [Bug 190055] Ability to apply metadata changes to multiple pictures at once

[Gus Gustafson]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190055


Gus Gustafson <efelthauser at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #32 from Gus Gustafson <efelthauser gmail com>  2012-01-25 18:03:17 ---
It is silly to use templates just to apply something like 'city' to multiple
photos at once. What if I manage photos from thousands of cities? I will need
thousands of templates? (Yes, I would have to keep all templates, in case, for
example, I ever change all the copyright restriction verbiage, etc.) Not a good
way.

The Solution: The right-hand caption/tag sidebar's 'information' tab can be an
editor, not just a viewer. Or An Alternative: the kipi metadata editor window
has an "apply to all selected images" button option.

Second, it is very bad that template fields that are not used in a template
will overwrite pre-existing metadata. Not an intuitive/expected behavior. I
feel sorry for someone who unwarily uses a template to set copyright info, only
to find that many hours of work on location metadata is *lost* (perhaps
*forever* if they have no other memory/record of where each photo was taken).

The Solution: Add Check-boxes next to all fields in templates. The
"Apply-template" action then only changes a field if it is Checked in template.
(The Kipi metadata editor already has Check-boxes...why not also the template
editor?)

In my opinion, these are big problems. I offer my sincere thanks to Gilles and
all others who work on Digikam for your great work. But, I really believe this
needs to be a top priority to improve. These suggested changes would not even
change the GUI much, but even if they did, any user who is bothering to work on
metadata will prefer useability and efficiency over aesthetics of, and
complexity of, the GUI. I am a person who actually enjoys making donations to
software projects that I use a lot. But I do not use Digikam anymore because of
these two reasons. I wish I could, as it is so good in other ways...

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