Labelles for Labels colour

[Gilles Caulier]

Le sam. 29 nov. 2025 à 08:23, <kaizubg at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Thank you Gilles for the information and for the breath-taking speed of development of this bug! ;)
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> I would be interested in the label management view, i.e. where you control the color label descriptions.
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> Do you have plans to implement the color labels into the icon view as well (item sort order and item separation)? This was also
> requested in one of the previous messages.

It's on my TODO list. see the future advancements in this bugzilla entry:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404749

Best regards

Gilles Caulier



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> Kai
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> pe, 2025-11-28 kello 17:38 +0100, Gilles Caulier kirjoitti:
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> Hi
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> I captured more screenshots of the new editable Color Label Names feature :
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> https://imgur.com/lcebhdj
> https://imgur.com/djMSXX9
> https://imgur.com/5vPARRp
> https://imgur.com/YVWycEo
> https://imgur.com/4jnSNQH
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> As you can see, the color label names are propagated everywhere when
> it's necessary, such as toolptip, image properties sidebar bar tab,
> filter sidebar tab, plugin item selection in album mode, caption
> sidebar tab.
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> Best regards
>
> Gilles Caulier
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> Le ven. 28 nov. 2025 à 16:52, <thomas.weg at abwesend.de> a écrit :
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> Hello Gilles,
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> Than sounds great. Thanks a lot.
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> Best regards
> Thomas
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. November 2025 um 19:03
> Von: "Gilles Caulier" <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> An: digikam-users at kde.org
> Betreff: Re: Labelles for Labels colour
> Hi all,
>
> Next 8.9.0 will have this feature : Custom naming of Color Labels.
> Double clicking on Color Labels text allow to edit string.
> Configuration is recorded in the digiKam settings file.
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> https://imgur.com/a/XRGBL0z
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> My best regards
>
> Gilles Caulier
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> Le sam. 22 nov. 2025 à 10:19, <omimet at free.fr> a écrit :
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> 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
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> On 22/11/2025 09:26, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Do you mean to attribute a description to a color label in the digiKam
> settings ?
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> 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
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> Le jeu. 20 nov. 2025 à 19:23, olivier mimet <omimet at free.fr> a écrit :
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> In the idea to categorise more easily the elements during import stage, Is It possible to attached a customisable labelle to each label colour?
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> OM
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> NB : found nothing in the manual, and only 2 items "Label colour" in BugZilla => not relevant....
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