digikam default options

[Andrey Goreev]

I don't agree. Any options that can "harm" an inattentive user. Any date changes are a harm.For example, I installed digikam and imported my pictures. Some of them went to Miscellaneous / Places / zoo instead of Places / zoo. For sure I changed it right away but I was not aware of that timestamp update option being turned on and changed the date of 300+ files.For sure it might be considered as a user issue but again, I think user should be protected. Let's at least allow users to turn that option on/off in the initial setup wizard.

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-------- Original message --------From: Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr> Date: 2017-01-14  8:11 AM  (GMT-07:00) To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org> Subject: Re: digikam default options 
On samedi 14 janvier 2017 07:30:08 CET Andrey Goreev wrote:
> Well, I take pictures to capture moments. So why should the date of the
> moment be changed if I simply added an info in order to be able to find
> that picture later ? 

There is a tag reflecting the time the image was taken. That one is not (and 
should not be) modified on any update, afaik.

Also, we were talking about the best default for a configuration option. If 
you do not like the default, you can change it.

But for me, a timestamp that's supposed to record the date/time an image was 
changed should _as_a_default_ do exactly that, to avoid surprising (new) 
users.

Remco.


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