[Digikam-users] Comments vs. Captions Confusion

[Paul Verizzo]

It's time for me to get serious to caption/comment/keyword my 
collection, thus only partially done.  I've done some in bits and pieces 
with other image programs, usually Irfanview.   I have read the digiKam 
overview on DAM, damn!  It's the best explanations for the real world 
out there!  I've searched the digiKam online handbook for references to 
captions and to comments, and I see both.

And yet, all I can see using the Captions/Tags button is Captions.  
Nowhere do I see a Comments option despite use of this term in the handbook.

If I insert a Comment using Irfanview, it comes up in digiKam as a 
Caption.  In Picasa, a Comment.  If I insert a Caption using digiKam, it 
shows up in Irfanview and Picasa as a Comment!  My head spins!

It's my understanding that Comments is peculiar to JPEG and is inserted 
to the file, regardless of IPTC, and that Captions is a peculiarity to 
the latter.  No?  Presumably, then, a non-JPEG can't have Comments?

It seems stock photo agencies expect Comments for the prose explanation 
of the photo.  I'm good with that, yet, unless I just can't find it, no 
Comments ability in digiKam!

Or, is all this just a misuse of words, people substituting Captions and 
Comments for each other too freely?

And thank you SO much for the work on this project!  Especially the 
Windows compilations!  I look forward to 1.8, especially for that 
thumbnail rebuilding per folder ability.  I wouldn't call 1.8 just a bug 
fix, it is more.

Paul