[Digikam-users] Editiing metadata not possible

[Caspar Maessen]

Op dinsdag 9 september 2008, schreef Caspar Maessen:

  > Today I noticed that it is not possible to edit metadata with
  > Image>Metadata>Edit EXIF or >Edit IPTC. The resulting dialog doesn't let
  > me change anything. The caption of the dialog also states (read only).
  >
  > digikam 0.9.5-svn
  > kexiv2 0.1.8 (from svn)
  > exiv2 library 0.18-pre1 (from svn)
  > kdcraw 0.1.5 (from svn)
  > dcraw library 8.87
  > png library 1.2.18
  >
  > Editing the caption in the metadata-sidebar, works as it should, as does
  > changing tags, which changes the IPTC-keywords. So what's needed to be
  > able to use metadata-editing through the menu.
  >
It appeared to me just now, that the above mentioned behavior, only applies to 
jpg's. The menu-options work like a charm on nef's (14bits from a Nikon D300) 
and tiff's (16 bits converted with BibblePro).

Caspar.