[Digikam-users] Digikam and Identity

[Gilles Caulier]

All is in setup/Template view from configuration dialog

Gilles Caulier

2012/2/12 Guy Stalnaker <jimmyg521 at gmail.com>:
> All,
>
> I'm having an odd issue with configuring digikam.  I have:
>
> Kubuntu 11.10
> KDE 4.7.4
> Digikam 2.1.1
>
> This is the default install with the kubuntu distro.  I have now looked at
> three different versions of the documentation:
>
> 1. One local which shows as version 1.2 (Revision 1.2 (2010-02-20)
> 2. One found
> on http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/index.html,
> also version 1.2
> 3. One from
> the digikam.org website http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/digikam.pdf(which
> does not provide a version)
>
> All three describe Identity settings one can use to tag images imported into
> digikam:
>
> <quote>
> Automatic metadata generation
>
> How to go about all this metadata business? Firstly, there are already a lot
> of automatically generated metadata: EXIF data and Makernotes. If you have
> configured digiKam with your identity section all imported images will be
> imprinted with this data set which includes copyrights, all automatic.
> </quote>
>
> This metadata is set via the Settings -> Configure menu, e.g.,
>
> http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html#author-identity
>
> This has a screen shot that clearly shows an Identity section (and I assume
> that all of this documentation is referring to this exact section).
>
> I very much want to use this ... yet my installed digikam does not have it!
> I see this set of options on my Configure window:
>
> Database
> Collections
> Album View
> Album Category
> Tool-Tip
> Metadata
> Templates
> MIME Types
> Editor Window
> Editing Images
> RAW Decoding
> Saving Images
> Color Management
> Light Table
> Slide Show
> Cameras
> Kipi Plugins
> Miscellaneous
>
> But no Identity.
>
> I've tried using the philips PPA to get the latest and hoping thereby to get
> a version of digikam with this missing Identity option, but there were
> numerous issues with dependencies and a conflict with an existing installed
> library and after several hours wrestling with it removed the PPA and
> reverted to the default digikam. Note that digikam works very well and it's
> only this one feature, so far as I can tell, that is lacking.
>
> I also searched the digikam-users list archives going back 1.5 years and no
> posts include 'identity' in the subject line, so perhaps I am the first
> (?!?) to see this.
>
> Anyone have any ideas either how to fix this lack or some workflow that uses
> other options to set these Identity metadata values.
>
> Also, if I have no Identity configuration option, how can I apply this same
> type of Metadata to my existing library?
>
> My thanks in advance.
>
> Guy
>
> --
> "There is only love, and then oblivion. Love is all we have
> to set against hatred." (paraphrased) Ian McEwan
>
> Guy Stalnaker
> Jimmyg521 at gmail.com
>
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