[Digikam-users] digiKam "broke" - digiKam/GIMP issue?

[Gilles Caulier]

2016-03-10 2:45 GMT+01:00 Elle Stone <ellestone at ninedegreesbelow.com>:

> On 03/09/2016 07:11 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>
>> Well, it's simple : the probblem is in Exiv2 shared library which have
>> some problem to read XCF file.
>>
>> You use Exiv2 0.25.
>>
>> Please report this problem to Exiv2 bugzilla.
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>
> From the command line, exiv2 seems to have the same problem with *all* the
> XCF files that I've tried it on, reporting as follows:
>
> exiv2 unique-colors.xcf
> Exiv2 exception in print action for file unique-colors.xcf:
>
> unique-colors.xcf: The file contains data of an unknown image type
>
> However, only a very few XCF files cause digiKam to stop functioning.
>
> Is there a way to tell digiKam to not read the metadata from XCF files?
>

No currently. The only way is to hard code a simple rule to ignore XCF type
mime.

Gilles Caulier

>
> I'm not using digiKam to store metadata in an XCF file, and I'd just as
> soon digiKam not bother trying to read the metadata in the XCF file (I wish
> there were an option to tell GIMP to not store metadata in an XCF file, but
> that's another issue).
>
>
> Best,
> Elle
>
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