[Digikam-users] Digikam IPTC

[michael hughes]

Interesting to receive the second email. It seems I was right when I
suggested that I would not be making myself popular! Looks very much like
that the people who are developing digikam don't like outsiders who don't
speak linux and merely want a programme to do a job. That criticism produces
such an allergic reaction makes me wonder. To put forward the argument that
one is doing it in ones free time and is not paid does not seem to me to be
particularly coherent. Either you do it because you want to or you do it to
get paid, there is no excuse for doing anything badly or, more to the point,
expecting to avoid crticism.

In fact there is a very constructive point to this "debate". Unfortunately
you do not appear to be able to perceive it.


Michael Hughes



On 18/02/2008, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2008/2/18, michael hughes <leftbrainorama at googlemail.com>:
> >
> > Thankyou for the links: I had of course read all that and it is now
> > evident that in Digikam it is not possible to write captions into the IPTC.
> > My point is proved; Lightzone is a more mature product as it can do this and
> > handle TIFFS.
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> Before to said than digiKam is less mature than a proprietary program,
> just try to use it in the right way and compare what is possible to do.
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> - digiKam support IPTC and of course can store caption in IPTC tags !
> - You can set IPTC caption in batch mode if you want.
> - LightZone is a comercial program. LightZone team is payed for that.
> digiKam team is an open source program. We don't recieve money for that,
> excepted donation of course. We working on this project on available free
> time...
> - Light zone is not digiKam. The features are not the same !
>
> Thanks for your very contructive remarks...
>
> Gilles Caulier
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>


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