[Digikam-users] Re: Importing Tags from Images

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Montag, 7. März 2011 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> 2011/3/7 Martin (KDE) <kde at fahrendorf.de>:
> > Am Sonntag, 6. März 2011 schrieb Marco Tedaldi:
> > Yeah, I use database server where I need them, but with photos
> > this is different. I need the photos anyway, so there is no
> > benefit in using a dedicated DB server. And sharing my settings
> > is a little bit difficult. I have private photos nobody else
> > shall see my metadata for, I have semi private ones my family
> > can see my metadata and I have public ones. With this you have
> > to implement a permission system or something like a multi
> > database backend into digikam.
> > 
> > To my point of view, sharing metadata via sidecar files is easier
> > to handle than via DB.
> 
> But it's really slower than a DB to search and play with items into
> a photo management software.

Yes, that is true. I don't want to get rid of a database. Only for 
sharing data with other users I prefere sidecar files. At digikam 
startup they should be read into the digikam database of course (as it 
is right now with jpeg).

Martin

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> Gilles Caulier
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