[Digikam-users] No EXIF/XMP info in "Metadata" sideview

[Peter Albrecht]

Hi list!

can anybody confirm this behaviour with digiKam 4.2.0?

If select a photo (e.g. "myPhoto.jpg") in Album-View, the
"Metadata" side view on the right side does not show any
EXIF or XMP information of this image. The list of metadata
is totally blank.

On the console
   # exiv2 -p a myPhoto.jpg
lists lots of "Exif...." and "Xmp..." lines.

The strang thing is: The "Metadata" side view does show
"Makernote" and "IPTC" metadata for "myPhoto.jpg"


I tried all filter modes in the "Metadata" side view:
  - "No filter"
  - "Photograph"
  - "Custom"
=> the list of metadata keeps blank.

The "Search..." filter-input-control is empty.

I went to "Settings -> Configure digikam... -> Metadata ->
Display" and for EXIF viewer, I...
  - selected all ("Select All" Button)
  - selected none ("Clear" Button)
  - tried the default ("Default" Button)
=> the list of EXIF metadata keeps empty all the time.


On the other hand, digiKam could read the metadata some way:
The tooltip in album view does show sane values for
"Aperture", "Focal", "Exposure" and "Sensitivity".


Before I file a bug report, I wanted to check whether I
missed another configuration option.


I use digiKam 4.2.0 with KDE 4.12.5 on gentoo linux.

digiKam version 4.2.0
CPU cores: 2
Demosaic GPL2 pack support: Unknown
Demosaic GPL3 pack support: Unknown
Exiv2 can write to Jp2: Yes
Exiv2 can write to Jpeg: Yes
Exiv2 can write to Pgf: Yes
Exiv2 can write to Png: Yes
Exiv2 can write to Tiff: Yes
Exiv2 supports XMP metadata: Yes
LibCImg: 130
LibEigen: 3.0.6
LibExiv2: 0.23
LibJPEG: 62
LibJasper: 1.900.1
LibKDE: 4.12.5
LibKExiv2: 2.3.1
LibKGeoMap: 2.0.0
LibKdcraw: 2.4.2
LibLCMS: 2060
LibLensFun: 0.2.8-0
LibPGF: 6.12.27 - external shared library
LibPNG: 1.6.12
LibQt: 4.8.5
LibRaw: 0.15.4
LibTIFF: LIBTIFF, Version 4.0.3 Copyright (c) 1988-1996 Sam
Leffler Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Marble Widget: 0.17.0 (stable version)
Parallelized PGF codec: No
Parallelized demosaicing: Unknown
RawSpeed codec support: Unknown
Database backend: QSQLITE
Kipi-Plugins: 3.5.0
LibKface: 3.0.0
LibKipi: 2.1.0
LibOpenCV: 2.4.5


Regards,
	Peter Albrecht