[Digikam-users] workflow?

[Arnd Baecker]

Hi Gilles,

thanks for your rapid response!

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Gilles Caulier wrote:

> On Tuesday 07 March 2006 08:24 am, Arnd Baecker wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have now been trying out digikam for about a week and
> > have a question concerning a recommended workflow:
> >
> > After importing a bunch of images into a new album
> > I would like to tag and rate them.
> > For this one can right-click on each image, select
> > "Assign tag" and then select the tag from the list which shows up.
> > If one has several tags which need to be assigned to one picture
> > (or a selection of pictures), one has to go through this sequence every
> > time.
> >
> > In the end I would like to do the tagging/rating for my whole image
> > collection of 10000+photos.
> >
> > The above procedure is quite time-consuming, so I would
> > be interested in learning about a faster way!
>
> In 0.9.0, image properties sidebar (on the right of main interface) will
> reduce time consuming for that. There is no dialog to open for
> tagging/commenting/rating etc. Look this screenshot :
>
> http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/digikam0.9.0-alpha.png

That looks perfect!
It is good to see that this project also has a time-machine ;-).

> But multiselection tagging/commenting/rating isn't yet implemented. Because it
> require any substential changes in the code, I think to implement it later
> than 0.9.0 issue.

To test these features would mean to use svn, right?
(should be no problem, will check tomorrow)

Alright, looking forward to that a lot!

Arnd