[Digikam-users] Slideshow writes metadata to file - why?

[Anders Kamf]

Thanks for putting attention to this issue!

The following four tags are changed (created) when a picture is showed
in slideshow:
Processing Software   : digiKam-2.5.0
Software              : digiKam-2.5.0
Creator Tool          : digiKam-2.5.0
Originating Program   : digiKam

These four tags are also created/set when e.g. applying rating or a
tag to a picture. In that case it is not a big problem though, since
the metadata is touched anyway.

I.e. if a picture is tagged from digiKam and then showed in slideshow,
nothing will happen since the four tags are already present in the
metadata. But if a picture is not touched by digiKam before, or
touched by an older version of digiKam, there will a change.

The problem is only when using the simple digiKam slideshow (F9), the
advanced one doesn’t change the metadata.

Thanks!
Anders


2012/7/30 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> Can you identify what is changing in metadata before and after playing slide ?
>
> Do you use Advanced Slideshow kipi-plugin or simple digiKam slideshow ?
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
>
>
>
> 2012/7/30 Anders Kamf <digikam at kamf.se>:
>> But this is what happens, metadata is written (not only read) during
>> the slideshow. It is just passively watching, no rating update or
>> anything else is done.
>>
>> Should I report it as a bug then?
>>
>> Regards
>> Anders
>>
>>
>> 2012/7/22 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
>>> During a slideshow, no file must be touch. Only metadata are read,
>>> excepted if you apply rating change of image and turn on digiKam
>>> metadata settings to write digiKam info to image...
>>>
>>> Gilles Caulier
>>>
>>> 2012/7/21 Anders Kamf <digikam at kamf.se>:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> First: thanks for a great program!
>>>>
>>>> I have a question about metadata embedded in files. Whenever showing a
>>>> picture in the slideshow, digiKam edit the metadata of the picture. It
>>>> adds information to the file:
>>>>
>>>> Processing Software             : digiKam-2.5.0
>>>> Software                        : digiKam-2.5.0
>>>> Creator Tool                    : digiKam-2.5.0
>>>> Originating Program             : digiKam
>>>>
>>>> I like digiKam to save image rating etc. to metadata embedded in
>>>> files, but that is when I change i.e. the rating. I don’t want it to
>>>> change a file when simply viewing it in the slideshow.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody know why digiKam does this?
>>>> Is it possible to turn off? (The settings are quite detailed about
>>>> which metadata to save embedded in the files, but as far as I can see
>>>> it doesn’t say anything about this specific behavior.)
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Anders
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