[Digikam-users] IPTC, EXIF, Kphotoalbum

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Mardi 31 Octobre 2006 15:08, Thomas Hummel a écrit :
> Thanks for your answers.
>
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:18:49PM +0100, Caulier Gilles wrote:
> > What do you mean by 'tag-oriented actions' exactly ?
> > Are you read the digiKAm handbook before to ask questions about tags ?
> >
> > http://www.digikam.org/?q=docs
> >
> > > Though Kphotoalbum seems to better suit my needs,
>
> Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. I read the doc and gave a quick trial
> at both digikam and Kphotoalbum.
>
> Kphotoalbum felt simpler and seemed not limited by the album "concept"
> boundaries (although those boundaries doesn't seem to be a problem in
> digikam when looked closer).
>
> Also I liked the xml database idea and the ro media indexing feature.
>
> Note : Maybe digikam can not index pictures on read-only media
> (although I wouldn't see why, since it could index in its database
> only) ?
>
> But it's true that I had the feeling that Kphotoalbum features were
> included in digikam and that digikam provided in addition more, such
> as
>
>   . the album concept
>
>   . the IPTC writing feature, which, to me, guaranties portability
>     (does that make sense ?)
>
> So I was wondering if I missed some essential differences between the
> two softwares (left alone the editing features that I don't care about
> for now).
>
> Also, do you know if the Medata Kipi plugin would work in Kphotoalbum
> (who shares that plugin mechanism) ?

yes. it's a kipi-plugins.

>
> > > Also, though digikam seem to leave my underlying file-system folder
> > > layout intact, when importing a directory which holds only
> > > sub-directories (and no pictures), it creates empty "Albums" named
> > > after those sub-directories : is there a way to avoid that ?
> >
> > Do you mean the root director on album collection ?
>
> No, I had something like :
>
> foo/bar/aaa/pictures/*.jpg
> foo/bar/bbb/movies/*.mpg
> ...etc...
>
> and the import of foo resulted in
> empty aaa and bbb albums in the album view.

Ah. I cannot reproduce it here. Witch version of digiKam you use ?

Gilles