Digikam-users Digest, Vol 229, Issue 6

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Thanks for the reply,

I get it (I beleive) - metadata & fields in .xml files is a bit of a complicated and non-standardized mess, which makes supporting additional fields more complicated for sure.

Not with standing, I hope that the development & support team will consider supporting
1) Providing ability to view & edit more metada fields, including those included in some of the more common .xml file namespaces - including multiple instances of Album fields
2) Enable use of the metadata editor separate from, and without, creating a catalog/database.

Thanks again for listening, best regards,
Gregg

>>On jeudi 13 juin 2024 16:58:33 CEST Gregg Zupcsics wrote:
>> To clarify, I suggest enabling use of as many Metadata Editor features as
>> possible - including editing .xml files and fields AND editing metadata in
>> image files, without and independently from creating & maintaining a
>> catalog/database.
>>
> Currently, digikam doesn't allow editing of sidecar files *at all*.
> It can read and write some fields in sidecar files, but that's not the same
thing. Fields that are not understood, will not be read (but are not modified
or deleted on writing, either).

Also, there's no one-to-one correspondence between the metadata fields in
digikam, and the xml tags used to store those fields in the sidecar files.
Programs use different namespaces, with different syntax and slightly
different semantics to store e.g. keywords. Digikam can read and write some
fields from some of those namespaces, but not all.

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2. Re: digiKam feature - suggestion: Make Metadata editor
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3. svg support issue in Digikam (leoutation at gmx.fr)
4. Re: svg support issue in Digikam (Maik Qualmann)

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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:58:33 +0000
From: Gregg Zupcsics
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Subject: Re: digiKam feature - suggestion: Make Metadata editor
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To clarify, I suggest enabling use of as many Metadata Editor features as possible - including editing .xml files and fields AND editing metadata in image files, without and independently from creating & maintaining a catalog/database.

And again, someone please let me know if there is already a way to do this.

regards,
Gregg

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digiKam developers & support,

This is probably going to sound unusual to those developing dikiKam as a database centric tool, however what I would love to be able to do is to use digiKams Metadata Editor to create, view, & manage .XMP side car files associated with images in a standalone mode, without creating a database, and without the database functionality.

I have read & searched the digiKam documentation, and so far as I can tell this doesn't seem to be supported. Please correct me if I'm wrong and if there is a way to do this with digiKam currently please let me know. If it is not currently supported and is remotely feasible, please consider this as an enhancement/feature request.

My application and use case is that I need a really robust & capable metadata editor (more & better features than what I have found elsewhere), for use among other things, to create & manage logical groups & albums of images, without relying on organization into folders corresponding to albums, or a database because I have a large number of images in an existing folder structure which I don't want to change.

The main reason that I don't want to use the database features is that I really don't want another database/catalog to keep in sync with changes made in other programs in addition to the two image editing & management apps that I use primarily to edit & maintain my images.

Thanks in advance and best regards,
Gregg
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:48:42 +0200
From: Remco Viëtor
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Subject: Re: digiKam feature - suggestion: Make Metadata editor
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On jeudi 13 juin 2024 16:58:33 CEST Gregg Zupcsics wrote:
> To clarify, I suggest enabling use of as many Metadata Editor features as
> possible - including editing .xml files and fields AND editing metadata in
> image files, without and independently from creating & maintaining a
> catalog/database.
>
Currently, digikam doesn't allow editing of sidecar files *at all*.
It can read and write some fields in sidecar files, but that's not the same
thing. Fields that are not understood, will not be read (but are not modified
or deleted on writing, either).

Also, there's no one-to-one correspondence between the metadata fields in
digikam, and the xml tags used to store those fields in the sidecar files.
Programs use different namespaces, with different syntax and slightly
different semantics to store e.g. keywords. Digikam can read and write some
fields from some of those namespaces, but not all.

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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:41:17 +0200
From: leoutation at gmx.fr
To: Digikam-Users
Subject: svg support issue in Digikam
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Hi
I see Digikam (git version) can't display .svg files. Showfoto can do
it. Is it a Digikam bug?
Other Qt6 based softs, Qview 6.1-4 and Pcmanfm-Qt can display .svg with
Kimageformats
Greetings

--
Maderios

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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:56:07 +0200
From: Maik Qualmann
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Subject: Re: svg support issue in Digikam
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No problems here with SVG files under Qt6 and digikam from git/master.
But SVG is not a standard image type that digiKam knows. You have to add "svg"
as image type in the digiKam settings under View-> Mime Types, that's all.

Maik

Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2024, 18:41:17 MESZ schrieb leoutation at gmx.fr:
> Hi
> I see Digikam (git version) can't display .svg files. Showfoto can do
> it. Is it a Digikam bug?
> Other Qt6 based softs, Qview 6.1-4 and Pcmanfm-Qt can display .svg with
> Kimageformats
> Greetings
>
> --
> Maderios

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