[Digikam-users] Digikam and identity settings

[Guy Stalnaker]

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

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Guy Stalnaker
jimmyg521 at gmail.com