https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434444
Bug ID: 434444
Summary: Add support for comments, not just captions
Product: digikam
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: All
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Metadata-Xmp
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Comments are not the same thing as captions.
A caption is a description, and should be an explanation of the image, its
context, its story, and so forth, most often written by the photographer -
while a comment is a reaction to the image, often written by somebody else. The
caption is what a museum would place next to the image if on display; comments
are what museum visitors would leave in the guestbook after seeing the image.
Captions typically have a factual tone; comments are opinions. Captions may be
used by the photographer to provide accessible alternative text for visually
impaired users; comments express the personal thoughts of the commentator.
Digikam should support comments as a separate type of metadata. The value of
comments comes from their multiplicity - an image may receive many comments,
over time.
For example, I might tag and caption a photo and then add a comment saying
"Yeesh I look so embarrassing in that hat.". But then ten years later, I might
return to the image and add a further comment: "How times have changed now that
hats are back. This is now one of my favourite selfies."
Comments do not overwrite previous comments; they accumulate over time.
Comments should have an Author and a Timestamp.
Comments should be written to XMP sidecar files alongside other metadata, in
the digikam namespace if there is no more standardised way of expressing them.
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