[Digikam-users] Metadata

[Anders Lund]

On Lørdag den 29. juni 2013 15:13:40, Simon Cropper wrote:
> Hi Gilles,
> 
> I think Anders means that the program either allows you to do normal
> digikam type stuff OR write metadata to files.

Exactly.

> What he would like is the ability to write metadata to his files while
> still being able to do other stuff (e.g. edit another image, browse
> albums, etc).
> 
> Usually if you save the metadata for a single file it takes less than a
> second but if you are tagging hundreds of files it could take longer.
> Personally the longest wait I have had is ~5-10 seconds to save data to
> ~40 files. I suppose it is how you work and how many files you are
> manipulating at one time.

That is what I sometimes do, for example by tagging a whole album with some 
tags.

What I thought of was something like an external process and some que 
management.


> On 29/06/13 14:13, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > Freezing digiKam want mean a crash in internal process. It can be an
> > Exiv2 shared lib crash.
> > 
> > Do you have a GDB trace to investiguate ?
> > 
> > Also which metadata setting you use ?
> > 
> > Best
> > 
> > Gilles Caulier
> > 
> > 2013/6/28 Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk>:
> >> I really like having meta-data written to files, but I badly dislikes
> >> digikam freezing. It must be possible to do these things async, without
> >> freezing the entire application!
> >> 
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Anders