[digiKam-users] Two important things Digikam misses (IMHO)

[Stefan Müller]

Hi there,

has been a while since my last contribution.

My impression is, that there are a numerous discussion and feature 
request talking around the not-so-ideal user-friendliness in regard of 
bulk metadata editing. That leads to the situation that user either 
switch to other software for this purpose or ignore digiKam completely.
I expect that KDE will apply again at Google Summer of Code next year, 
so that could be an ideal project. It was mentioned that that has to be 
included to digiKam via a plug-in but plug-in architecture was 
simplified in v6.x so chances are higher than in the past to have this 
done successfully.
There is one aspect what has to be taken account. Changes on the user 
interface are not easy to coordinate, as there isn't any mock-up of the 
UI of digiKam so you either use screenshot and mark the changes, create 
GIFs or may do screen sharing. All of them are quite time consuming, so 
the process of such a project can be quite sluggish.  I reckon woenx 
agrees with me.
As there are alternative software proposal in the mailing list and bug 
tracker it could simplify this exchange of information. You can clearly 
define what functionality shell be provided and describe the workflow in 
simply words by telling I want to do it as in app xy :).
That could help a lot to make this project a quick start, couldn't it?

FastPhotoTagger seems to be quite active in contrast to EasyTAG and acts 
just as graphical wrapper around the ExifTool. I'm sure digiKam could 
the same in regard of metadata changes. Unfortunately FastPhotoTagger is 
written in Java but digiKam in C++ you cannot copy&paste but Java has a 
strong influence of C++, so whoever going to write the code, she or he 
should be able to read the source code.

At the end it is up to the maintainer on what priority this project 
would get but anyone can propose a project and describe the scope.

Stefan




Am 08.11.2019 um 01:21 schrieb Rafael Linux:
> It never worked so I desisted. The most intuitive and easy way:
> - Select a RAW file
> - Ctrl + Shift + M
> - Select "Edit XMP"
> - Enable "Copyright" and change the text for any other text
> - Click "Accept"
> - Repeat all steps, you will notice the Copyright was not changed.
>
> If fact, if this method (if it could work) will not change all files in an
> quick way, cause it forces user to click on "Next" , change the text user
> want to modify and click on "Apply" button again. Maybe the batch mode work
> (I didn't try again) but this should work too for individual photos, and is
> not working  :(  (at least, for me) on RW2 files.
>
>
>
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