Suggestion from a new user

[Gilles Caulier]

Le lun. 15 avr. 2024 à 17:07, Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr> a écrit :
>
> On lundi 15 avril 2024 14:51:31 CEST Domenico Dispenza wrote:
> > I have just started to use your program, excellent. A suggestion. Wouldn’t
> > be useful the possibility to associate to tags an informative form? For
> > instance, to the tag “Lion“ a form with the Linneus family name, habits
> > etc,  to the tag “Mary” a form with birthday date, last seen, address.
> > Would this be possible? Domenico
>
> Tags are metadata, used to describe the *image*, and which can also be written
> to (exported) images.
> Adding additional information to tags can then cause several issues (or the
> information is lost when you export an image to outside of digikam, e.g. when
> uploading to social media):
>  - the size of the metadata can grow fast (not impossible to have 10-15 tags,
> especially when using a tag hierarchy (animal->mammal->feline->lion), leading
> to larger files
> - when you have personal information linked to a tag, you get privacy problems
> (Mary might not like having her address, birthday or phone number plastered
> over the internet)
> - The information you propose to add is not descriptive of the image, but of
> the metadata item (meta-metadata?).
>
> @Gilles: I thought multilingual descriptions and titles were already possible?
> (the "x-default" drop list next to the edit field).


yes, comment and title for the content as well.

The wish in bugzilla is to add more details about a tag, with an
explicit description, which do not depend on the contents
comment/title.

Gilles