[Digikam-users] xmp and shortcuts

[Jean-François Rabasse]

Hello,


On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Gilles Caulier wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This topic have been already discuted in bugzilla.
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278935
>
> The short response is no. Why. it's simple: digiKam use the full
> qualified name (file name + extension) to prevent any problem if both
> file name exist in same directly. Typical case is JPEG + RAW :
>
> - imagename.cr2
> - imagename.jpg
>
> How to differentiate XMP sidecar files which is assigned to JPEG and
> to RAW ? It's impossible with Rawtherape way. For me it's a severe
> dysfunction, and we don't change this behavior in digiKam.
>
> Ask to Rawtherape team to implement a more safe way, with the
> possibility to switch on old to new behavior.

Hum, not sure this could greatly help Tomasz :-)

And it's not a Rawtherapee issue at all. The naming convention 
imagename.xmp is used by Rawtherapee, true, but also by Corel's 
AfterShotpro, by Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe Lightroom, etc.
Also, some software (Bibble / Bibble5) did offer the two conventions.

It seems that the problem is not to debate about which naming convention
is better, Digikam convention or Adobe convention. Both have advantages
and drawbacks, both have good rationale that make sense.
It's more a matter of XMP philosophy than a technical debate.

>From users point of view, the problem should be seen as an inter
operability issue.
Offering an option to allow users choose between one or the other
convention would really be a great feature.
It would change nothing for users that only work with Digikam, and it 
would make life happier for those who use Digikam and other software.

Steps towards compatibility and interoperability always appear as
« thumb up » features.
Of cours, nothing but my opinion, I'm a compatibility addict ;)

Regards,
Jean-François


PS: @Tomasz
If you feel at ease with shell scripting, you can easily write a small
tool to walk your images folders and make a copy of all
imagename.extension.xmp to imagename.xmp.
That way, you will get your data under Lightroom, Rawtherapee, 
AfterShotpro and others.