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

[Jim Dory]

yes, that was that issue. Thanks.. now I will see if I can get it to
read LightRoom's xmp files.. doesn't want to right off but I'll
explore this a bit.

thanks, Jim

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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