[digiKam-users] Is there any way to stop Exif Caption being copied to Description?

[Remco Viëtor]

On mardi 18 septembre 2018 14:49:51 CEST Chris Green wrote:
> Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > DigiKam-5.6.0 is too old, you could use the AppImage digiKam-5.9.0.
> > However, the last fix for this issue was added to digiKam-6.0.0.
> > 
> > Beta 1 AppImage:
> > https://files.kde.org/digikam/
> > 
> > If you want to use the beta, make a backup of the database, because
> > digiKam-6.0.0 makes changes and if you want to return to an older version.
> 
> Digikam x.x is *always* too old!  It's one of the major issues I have
> with Digikam, it's all very well improving it all the time but we
> 'ordinary' people out here need a solid reliable Digikam that comes
> with a solid reliable distribution.

That's normal with small development teams: they can spend their time 
backporting bug-fixes to old versions, or decide to work only on the latest and 
make some progress.

That said, I've seen the same for programs with big teams: unless a version is 
specifically marked with "long-time support", the advice you get there is also 
"upgrade to the latest version, please".

And in this case, the cause of you having an old version is NOT Digikam, but 
your distro. Although there might be user-maintained repositories with newer  
versions. I know that's the case for OpenSuse: for me the "official" version 
from the distro is 5.5.0, build service (semi-official) provides 5.9.0, and 
appimage runs without problems (for me).

Remco