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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