[Digikam-users] How to use versioning?

[Gilles Caulier]

2012/6/19 Andreas Mair <amair.sob at googlemail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> finally I got it working!
>
> I ran tests under a new user without modifying any setting in digiKam
> and versioning worked. After that I compared the two digiKam settings
> files and tried to find out which setting in my non-working user was
> the reason.
>
> And here it is:
> digiKam settings: Metadata / Behavior / Reading and Writing Metadata
> If I enable "Write to sidecar files" and set this option to anything
> but "Write to XMP sidecar for read-only image only" versioning
> *doesn't* work (even if image is read-only).
> I mean:
> - on that page I've only enabled "Read from sidecar files" and nothing
> else => versioning works (history OK)
> - now enable "Wright to sidecar files" and set it to "Write to XMP
> sidecar for read-only image only" => versioning still works
> - now set "Wright to sidecar files" to "Write to sidecar only" or
> "Write to image and XMP Sidecar" => versionimng *not* works
>
> Is this reproduceable by anybody?
>

If it's reproducible by someone, please open a file about in bugzilla
with all condition listed before...

Best

Gilles Caulier