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

[DrSlony]

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

--- Comment #7 from DrSlony <bugs at seeitmyway.org> ---
Marcel: I need to see them to know which photos I've developed, or to move them
with those photos, or to fire up a text editor and edit them, or to delete
them. You're right that it would be a nuisance to see them all the time - I
only want to see them when needed.

Caulier: well yes they are metadata, but as was stated they are metadata which
digiKam does not understand. RawTherapee is switching from PP3 to XMP in the
near future, but this XMP will only be partially compatible with digiKam: just
the IPTC stuff. The rest - instructions for RawTherapee how to edit the photo -
will obviously be Greek to digiKam. The metadata right panel will be of no help
here. There are other raw converters which also use sidecar files, and they
also don't and perhaps won't use XMP, or if they do use XMP then digiKam will
only understand or share the tags and ratings, nothing else, and users of that
software will also find it troublesome to move their photos with digiKam but
then have to fire up a file manager to move the corresponding sidecar files.

Now imagine you rename photos with digiKam and your file manager doesn't handle
batch renaming...

Adding these PP3/XMP/whatever sidecar files to a sidecar group optionally
visible in digiKam would solve these problems.

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