[Digikam-users] xmp and shortcuts

[Gilles Caulier]

Jean François,

Please report your feedback into the bugzilla entry that i listed before....

Gilles Caulier

2014/1/16 Jean-François Rabasse <jf at e-artefact.eu>:
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> Hello,
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> On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Gilles Caulier wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> This topic have been already discuted in bugzilla.
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>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278935
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>> 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 :
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>> - imagename.cr2
>> - imagename.jpg
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>> 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.
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> Hum, not sure this could greatly help Tomasz :-)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 ;)
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> Regards,
> Jean-François
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> 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.
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