Hello,
I’m new in Digikam but I find the tool very interesting. From the DAM standpoint I love the tag management (even if I have some idea to complete it).
About metadata, I’ve probably not understood everything. But:
I agree with the Andrius’ suggestion to have all (selected by configuration) information in the same place, except Tags which needs a special interface to manage the tree.
Related to this, I think we could have a better alignment (or understanding for me ) between:
Data displayed to the user
Data entered by the user
Data stored in database
Data written (or not) into the files, on demand or automatically (I’ve not found the way not write anything automatically for example)
Data read from file
From my standpoint Informations and Metadata are all the same. But it seems that Digikam maintains a difference (if I understand correctly) and I haven’t found the way (yet) to make the bridge between them.
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