[Digikam-devel] [Bug 193232] XMP side-car filter

[DrSlony]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193232

--- Comment #4 from DrSlony <bugs at seeitmyway.org> ---
digiKam is a program designed to help people manage their photos. You have
decided that it will also support audio and video files. I see no inconsistency
why it should not allow the same people to manage sidecar files as well. In
fact it already does so, except it limits the types of sidecar to just one:
XMP. The fact is that people do use other software to develop their photos and
would like to use digiKam to manage those photos.

By manage I mean two things:
1- to recognize sidecar files as such,
2- to let us use digiKam's MIME type filters on these sidecar files without
having to do silly things like adding them to the "movie files" or "audio
files" group,
3- and to let us easily move bundles around (or whatever you call a collection
consisting of a photo, versions of that photo, and any other files directly
related to that photo such as the sidecar file in XMP or any other format,
which is one of the new features introduced in digiKam-2.0
http://scribblesandsnaps.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/new-features-in-digikam-2-0-versioning/
)

"But digiKam provides an elegant solution to the problem: you can combine the
original and all its versions into a single group. To do this, select the
original and its versions, right-click on the selection and choose the Group
Selected Here command. This combines all the selected photos as one neat
bundle"
If this group could also contain sidecar files, that would make managing them
easier.

Just to be clear, I'm not asking for digiKam to understand the things contained
in these non-XMP sidecar files, I would just find it useful if digiKam
recognized these sidecar files, included a file type group for sidecar files,
and let us bundle them with the photos each sidecar file corresponds to
manually (via right-click + Group Selected) and/or automatically (pairing by
matching filenames).

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