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

[Jean-Pierre Verrue]

Le 02/09/2014 21:29, Peter Albrecht a écrit :
> 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.
>
>
> [...]

+1 Exactly same behavior !

I use digiKam 4.2.0 with KDE 4.11.5 on opensuse 13.1

Regards,

JPV