XMP filename in LightTable not shown

[jrickards (Julian Rickards)]

I’m using dt 5.2.1 on Linux. I have an image that I’d like to edit in 2 different ways so I pressed Ctrl-D to duplicate the “image” in the lighttable. I know that duplication creates another XMP file so the settings on one image in the lighttable are stored in one XMP and the settings in another are in another XMP.

I may be wrong but I thought that the XMP filename would be shown in the lighttable. For example, railcar.jpg would have railcar.jpg.xmp and railcar_01.jpg.xmp but I can’t see the difference in lighttable, the 2 images both have the same hover information, both show railcar.jpg.

In the current project, I am making some small changes to the duplicate when compared with the original and the differences between the 2 XMP don’t seem to be visible in lighttable so I have to open them and look at the history to tell the difference between them, it’s not like colour vs B&W. Being able to hover to see which XMP applies to which image would be useful.

Is there a setting that I’m missing or might this be a wishlist?

[priort (Todd Prior)]

You can use variables… version or version.name if you add them…

variables

Then add them to the thumbnail overlay pattern …I have extended ones set on mouse hover or you could make them permanent…

I stuck it on the end quickly but you could insert it to be part of the file name…

[priort (Todd Prior)]

I could get to this…the issue is that one it will add in the 0 for the base xmp and its not added that way to the actual xmp and two it uses single digits and not a preceeding zero like the xmp…

Likely a clever person can do a better job

[jrickards (Julian Rickards)]

This is much better, thanks

So, it appears that it isn’t a default option but, to me anyway, it does make sense to have it.