On Thu, Jul 18, 2013, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Willem Ferguson < >>> >>> 3) A third step would be to create a lookup table so that users can >>> locally rename metadata fields for their own collection. For instance, a >>> particular user may perhaps like to rename the SDCMES 'Relation' tag to >>> be 'Country' for his/her own collection. > > I wouldn't like to allow users to change the names of the fields. When > the user renames "Relation" to "Country", how should we store that > afterwards in files that get shared with the world outside of dt? I > see too many problems and no real benefit with this idea.
I'm hoping Willem didn't literally mean "rename" but a stable alias that would be used for display purposes and export. I think it would be reasonable to require that any such aliases not conflict with the built-in name and that the built-in name would always get exported (with the same value) along with the alias. (From my POV there's not much win with this idea, either, but it would save a toolchain step for someone who really cares about naming.) -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
