Darktable is great and I love the approach to editing. However, I want to do the asset management separately (Excire, PSU, Digikam, Bridge - not finally decided yet). The problem I ran into is, that Darktable does not read the XMPs and keeps the tags, ratings etc. from the XMP maintained in the asset management (tested with Bridge).
I know darktable reads ratings, captions, titles, and keywords from digikam’s sidecars, as I use digikam to set those items, then edit in darktable…
As I set the metadata before importing in darktable, I don’t even need the option to check for updated files on startup.
Both digikam and darktable use filenames with the format <name>.<ext>.xmp
Good luck with that.
Between the two different naming conventions and the number of ways (xml tags) to store the different metadata items, general compatibility is going to be difficult to achieve.
I gave my experience with a combination that works for me, and for my approach, that’s all.
Sorry I am not aware of those discussion, please direct me there. Though I must say I am surprised that a standard that is followed by many others is a matter of a debate…
I removed the folder from Darktable and re-imported, and then the tags, title & co is being mirrored in DT. Good to know - thanks!
The latest version of Digikam keeps on crashing on mine too, so I simply reinstalled the previous version. Digikam and DT works well together in this way