[Digikam-users] Editiing metadata not possible

[Gilles Caulier]

Sound like a bug into current implementation of libkexiv2 from KDE3. please
file a new bug report. thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier

2008/9/14 Caspar Maessen <cmaessen at casco.demon.nl>

> 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.
>
> Op dinsdag 9 september 2008, schreef Caspar Maessen:
>
>   > 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).
>
> I searched the mailinglist for this phenomenon. I only found that nefs
> weren't
> writable. The weird thing now is that it has turned the other way around.
> Nefs are, but jpegs aren't writeable. Has somebody else experienced this as
> wel, and what is the solution?
>
> Caspar.
>
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