[Digikam-devel] [digikam] [Bug 231114] Used template fields overwrite existing used fields when applying template

[Milan Knížek]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231114

--- Comment #8 from Milan Knížek <knizek at volny.cz> ---
(In reply to Gus Gustafson from comment #7)
> I see that you changed the first word in the title of this bug from "Unused"
> to "Used", but I believe this is not correct. As I understand it, it is
Well spotted.

I just tested again with digiKam 4.2.0 and indeed the application of the
template overwrites silently any data that existed, no matter that the
corresponding field in the template is empty.

Not only does it overwrite existing field text with an an empty one, it also
sets the various keys in XMP, even that there are empty and there is no reason
for such a key to be written to XMP.

As you wrote, it is dangerous to use the templates atm and probably not many
people use them anyway - at least based on the short "CC List" of this bug.

Perhaps the bug title should be changed to "Empty (unset) template fields erase
already populated fields of the image metadata once the template is applied"?

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