[Digikam-users] Re: digiKam ate my tags: bug, feature, or user-error?

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Samstag, 29. Januar 2011 schrieb Andrew Goodbody:
> On 29/01/11 19:30, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > Probably the problem is somewhere here :
> > 
> > http://lxr.kde.org/source/extragear/graphics/digikam/digikam/meta
> > datahub.cpp#410
> > 
> > But i cannot see what's wrong exactly...
> 
> Were you talking to me? Sorry but I don't know the digikam source
> nor even c++ particularly. However a quick glance suggests that
> line 498 must be going wrong. hasTag must, for each image, work on
> the merged original tags of that image and any changes (additions
> or deletions) that have been made. It seems that it is only taking
> notice of the changes made and not the original tags.
> 
> I do wonder if the bug is somewhat deeper. In the right sidebar
> there does not seem to be any indication for tags that are in some
> of the images selected but not others. I would have expected along
> with the selected and deselected tag states there would be a third
> in-between state that indicated that only some of the selected
> images had this tag applied. So for this third state, when the
> tags were written out, such a tag would be unchanged in each
> image. However this may just be a separate UI issue and fixing
> hasTag be what is needed to fix the bug.

I am not really sure, but I think in one of the older digikam version 
(may be 1.4 or 1.5) I had tags not common in all sellected photos were 
checked and greyed out.

Martin

> 
> I have not actually checked whether tags that are in common with
> all images but are not changed remain intact or not in the
> metadata.
> 
> Andrew
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