[Digikam-users] Digikam IPTC

[michael hughes]

Dear Arnd,

I suppose you define "constructive" do you? What is "offensive" about
general statements? My remarks come from the position of being a
professional photographer, I would have thought such contributions would be
acceptable even though they are not couched in Digikam developers language.
Your reaction seems to me that of the jealous father who can bear no
criticisms of their child. And your bracketed threat I find absolutely
pathetic


Michael

On 18/02/2008, Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, michael hughes wrote:
>
> > Hallo everybody,
> >
> > I probably won't make myself very popular with this but here goes. I am
> a
> > professional photographer working in Berlin. I previously used macs up
> to
> > system 9 and windows xp. I am a freelancer so I have to look after
> myself by
> > and large when things go wrong. I decided to check out Linux using the
> CT
> > package after I had a head crash on my laptop and needed to install a
> > system. Naturally I am interested in finding an alternative to Photoshop
> and
> > Lightroom as highest priority and thought that with Ubuntu Linux had
> finally
> > got near enough to be useful to me. Generally speaking Digikam is very
> good
> > apart from the backwood aesthetics of penguins peering cheerily over
> > cameras, which I can frankly live without.
>
> Good contributions for a new logo are welcome.
>
> > My main problem is the IPTC. I still have not found a way to coherently
> work
> > with this despite having spent six weeks on and off with the problem. It
> > begins with the preferences; you have to switch IPTC on. This is for me
> the
> > first major "policy statement". As a professional I could just about
> accept
> > that you could switch IPTC off but as a default this is just not
> serious.
>
> People have different preferences and some don't
> want their images to be modified in any way.
> Therefore this is the chosen default.
> Of course, one might think of running a configuration wizard
> on the very first run, in which such things can be configured.
> Feel free to file a wish in the bug tracker.
>
> > I
> > now find bits of information (the copyright details in prefs) in the
> IPTC
> > but am not quite sure how they got there. Captions have appeared from
> photos
> > which already had captions after being imported into Digikam.
>
> See the documentation, eg
>
> http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html#setup-embeddedinfo
>
> http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-sidebar.html#using$
>
> > Using Tags I
> > have still not found an intuitive way of adding information. Maybe I
> just
> > have a blind spot - if so then tell me what I am doing wrong.
>
> More precise information is needed:
> what are you trying to do? And in which way are you
> trying to do this with digikam?
>
> > Until then I
> > have to reiterate that Lightzone still is the more mature product
>
> Honestly, don't you think that such statements could be seen as
> offensive to the hard-working developers of digikam?
> **Constructive** criticism is very welcome, but general
> statements like this don't lead to anything
> (apart from your e-mails being left un-answered in the future...).
>
> Arnd
>



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