tagging

Hello :-)

I use digikam for many years now and it's better each day :-)

that said there is always room for improvement. some things about tagging:

* when tagging, the right column is also used for "description" and
"légende" (sorry don't know the english use)

on one of my computer with 1366x768 screen, the part for tagging is
extremely small: only one or two lines! the upper parts should be
foldable or shrinkable because tagging there is nearly impossible.

* when tagging there are two important entry fields: filter and new
tag. There should be only one, because you can't know if the tag exist
without search and then you have to copy paste to the other filed to
create!

still on the same subject, but much more difficult: sync between
gallery (piwigo, for me) and digikam.

photos can be tagged at any time after putting them online. Moving
tags from web site to local base is tedious and re-uploading images
very unconvenient

The best way should be to use xml sidecars, so we should have a "sync
sidecar" function, but is that in digikam or piwigo (or both, or
none). I don't know what is the compatibility level of these sidecar
files. Are they really compatible between application, at least as
much as exifs, xptc etc?

thanks
jdd
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[John Stumbles]

On 21/03/12 15:03, jdd wrote:

> that said there is always room for improvement. some things about tagging:

Sorry to hijack the thread but may I add some suggestions?

1. I wanted to assign keyboard shortcuts to tags e.g. A for Andy, B for
Betty etc, but DK insists on using Ctrl- or Alt- key combinations, and
these often clash with existing keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C
etc) so it's hard to find shortcuts that work and even harder to
remember them! Is there any reason why DK couldn't use plain keys e.g. A
for Andy etc? Or, failing that, a sort of meta key followed by a letter
e.g. Ctrl-T (for tag) followed by the letter?

2. if I have copies of pictures in different directories and I tag or
rate one set, is there a way to have DK apply the same attributes to
copies elsewhere? It seems to be pretty good at identifying images so
that if one moves pictures from one directory to another it knows they
are the same image - I guess it takes some sort of hash of the file? -
so I guess it should be able to recognise identical copies elsewhere.
(What I have done, over the years, is make directories with hard-linked
copies of the better pictures from my main picture repository, so I have
linked copies of many of my photographs in two different places.)


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[Peter Albrecht]

Hi John,

to 1)
I use "CTRL + SHIFT + H" to assign the tag "picture taken at
home". What I want to say: Maybe there are more free
shortcuts if you combine two meta keys (e.g. CTRL + SHIFT).

to 2)
Can't help you copiing picture attribute, but organize
"better pictures" with star-rating:
  3 stars = average pictures
  4 stars = good pictures
  5 stars = perfect pictures
So if I want so see all "perfect pictures", I search for
pictures with rating = 5 stars. That way I don't have to
keep the same picture twice.

Regards,
        Peter

On 21.03.2012 20:04, John Stumbles wrote:

> On 21/03/12 15:03, jdd wrote:
>
>> that said there is always room for improvement. some
>> things about tagging:
>
> Sorry to hijack the thread but may I add some suggestions?
>
> 1. I wanted to assign keyboard shortcuts to tags e.g. A for
> Andy, B for Betty etc, but DK insists on using Ctrl- or Alt-
> key combinations, and these often clash with existing
> keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C etc) so it's hard to
> find shortcuts that work and even harder to remember them!
> Is there any reason why DK couldn't use plain keys e.g. A
> for Andy etc? Or, failing that, a sort of meta key followed
> by a letter e.g. Ctrl-T (for tag) followed by the letter?
>
> 2. if I have copies of pictures in different directories and
> I tag or rate one set, is there a way to have DK apply the
> same attributes to copies elsewhere? It seems to be pretty
> good at identifying images so that if one moves pictures
> from one directory to another it knows they are the same
> image - I guess it takes some sort of hash of the file? - so
> I guess it should be able to recognise identical copies
> elsewhere. (What I have done, over the years, is make
> directories with hard-linked copies of the better pictures
> from my main picture repository, so I have linked copies of
> many of my photographs in two different places.)
>
>

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