[Digikam-users] Re: GIMP and metadata

[gerlos]

Il giorno 04/lug/2011, alle ore 08.39, Gilles Caulier ha scritto:

> Ah... Gimp and metadata.
> 
> Why it will be to digiKam to restore metadata that a photo manipulation software as Gimp delete when file is saved.
> 
> Definitively, no... For me it's a shame for a photo manipulation software to don't take a care about metadata.
> 
> Report this urgent problem to Gimp team. The software solution exist, as Exiv2 shared lib manipulate properly metadata in image.

There's a bunch of bugs open in Gimp's Bugzilla about this problem:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629044
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56443
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620552
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61499

In some of them there are some tips pointing to the source code to change to solve the bug.

I'm not a programmer, and can't help, but hope that some one reading here could do something for it. 
Together with 32-bit support, this is one of the biggest flaws of Gimp in my opinion.

regards
gerlos

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