[Digikam-users] Shared collection

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Sonntag, 6. Juni 2010 schrieb Marcel Wiesweg:
> > I think you took me wrong. Lets assume there are two users, Bob
> > and Sally. Bob has collections in folder /a, /b and /c. sally
> > has collections in /b, /c and /d. Both users uses the computer
> > exclusively. Both writes the metadata to file.
> > 
> > Bob adds an new photo paris.jpeg to folder /c and changes the
> > tags to location|France|Paris.
> > 
> > Sally (some times later) gets this new photo (as it is new) with
> > the tag. She adds a text "Lovely trip to Paris" as caption to
> > the photo.
> > 
> > If Bob starts his digikam after Sally logged out he will not see
> > the changes made by Sally (at least with my digikam version
> > 1.2). He has to hit "reread metadata from files" to get them.
> > But to do this, he has to make wild guesses if the metadata have
> > changed or not.
> > 
> > It would be great, if digikam can do this automatically and mark
> > all those files where metadata of the file and in the DB do not
> > match. Or use the data from the file (configurable by dialogue).
> 
> Ok, I see the problem.
> Assuming the modification date changes when Sally writes the
> metadata (option can be turned off), digikam at least has a chance
> to know that the file was modified.
> Usually, not a full scan is done at next  start, only a scan of
> "hard" metadata, because not everyone writes metadata to images,
> not everyone wants a full rescan. We could add an option to do a
> full rescan when the modification date changes, to cover cases
> such as yours.

This would be great. So I enable update timestamp if metadata changes 
on all my users and digikam will automatically find these changes 
right? (If I have enabled the option you mentioned above)

> 
> Marcel

Martin