[Digikam-devel] [digikam] [Bug 364258] Upgrade to 5.0 (beta6) : tags and location data of photos are lost

[Jens B. Benecke via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364258

--- Comment #6 from Jens B. Benecke <jens-bugs.kde.org at spamfreemail.de> ---
> If you copy this file at this place all will start as expected.

Do you expect a normal user (= non-geek, non-programmer) to know that?
Then this is a usability issue, not a technical one. But an important one.
Or is Digikam not meant to be used by non-geeks?

> In all cases, the migration option is not the right way to process.

How should a user know? He can't. So prevent the migration from being abused in
this case. Users should not be able to perform tasks that destroy data,
otherwise they lose their trust in the application.

> But, starting with a new fresh DK setup and configure the collections and the place where the database is stored will normally not touch the DB content and all will be available as with 4.x release. 

OK, but - again - (how) do you expect a normal user (= non-geek,
non-programmer) to know that? From a usability perspective, Digikam5 should
proactively offer to import all Digikam4 settings, collections and so on - no
matter where they were saved previously. Nobody wants to research how to do
this manually, even if it is possible.

Please don't get me wrong, I like Digikam a lot and I want it to be successful.
This is why these things are so important to me.

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