Labelles for Labels colour

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Personally, I had a period wishing I could name those Pick color labels. 
Looking through older albums their use/meaning is different from one 
period to the next, depending on zeitgeist of the moment.
But progressively I got more comfortable using structured tags and star 
ratings, and now use a combination of those for selections across 
albums, while using color labels to distinguish images inside particular 
albums.
But to each their own, right?

Best regards,
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Þann 22.11.2025 09:18, skrifaði omimet at free.fr:
> Hi,
> I remember this constraint, using DK (and testing some other DAM 
> software) a few years ago.
> I understand that this attached name has to stay in the DK session and 
> can't be embedded in file/database
> The spirit of my question is to ease allocation of each color during 
> import session by having a clear understanding of what each mean FOR ME 
> (for Web/for printing/for optimisation/...)
> The idea could be to switch (or toggle) the DK interface to display the 
> attached label instead of the color (which is remaining in the database).
> But I have no idea if this facility can be wished by a lot of DK users...
> Best regards,
> OM
> 
> On 22/11/2025 09:26, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do you mean to attribute a description to a color label in the digiKam
>> settings ?
>>
>> Actually, color labels are unnamed to be universal and portable. If a
>> name is paired with a color and stored in the file metadata, the
>> pairing can be (will be) certainly different due to the own workflow.
>>
>> If a name is given to each color, this must still in the digiKam
>> session, somewhere in the config file and not propagated in the
>> database and the file metadata.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> Le jeu. 20 nov. 2025 à 19:23, olivier mimet <omimet at free.fr> a écrit :
>> >
>> > In the idea to categorise more easily the elements during import 
>> stage, Is It possible to attached a customisable labelle to each label 
>> colour?
>> >
>> > OM
>> >
>> > NB : found nothing in the manual, and only 2 items  "Label colour" 
>> in BugZilla => not relevant....
>>