[Digikam-users] Fwd: Re: tags/keywords between Adobe Lightroom and Digikam

[Gilles Caulier]

KDE libkexiv2 interface for digiKam need to be recompiled after Exiv2 changes.

Also, look into Help/Components Info dialog for details about Exiv2
and metadata capabilities if all is fine.

Gilles Caulier

2012/1/3 Jim Dory <james at dorydesign.com>:
> Recompiled exiv2 with xmp support (added it to my make.conf file and
> did an "emerge -avuND @world" to make sure anything else using xmp
> would be recompiled but I think only exiv2 and tellico were done.
>
> Still grayed out in DK settings.
> If I look at that same Metadata settings and look at the viewers, they
> are all blank - no options selected- and I'm not sure how that ought
> to be. There's too many things in there for me to grasp, but if I
> enable them it doesn't appear to help in the Behavior tab with the
> Read xmp sidecars.
>
> I did do a restart of the computer just in case and for other reasons as well.
>
> cheers, Jim
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Andrew Goodbody <ajg02 at elfringham.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 02/01/12 20:32, Jim Dory wrote:
>>>
>>> Many thanks folks - I enjoy the discussion about workflow and other
>>> softwares - would love to finally dump my windows XP.
>>>
>>> I will study the links provided by Gilles and see if I can make head
>>> or tails from them to enable xmp in DK.
>>
>>
>> Gilles was basically saying that the library that deals with metadata,
>> Exiv2, has not been compiled with support for XMP. Exiv2 is not a part of
>> digikam but is needed by digikam to work. So the next question is 'where did
>> you get your version of digikam and supporting files and how did you install
>> it on your machine?'
>>
>>
>> Andrew
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