Hi Tim, > It seems the feature only writes to XMP tags.
Shotwell will happily write metadata out to EXIF and IPTC in addition to XMP, but only under certain conditions. Likewise, there are some conditions under which Shotwell will not write out any XMP metadata. Understanding when and why these conditions occur requires understanding how Shotwell's metadata handling works. In general, metadata handling in Shotwell works as follows. Shotwell recognizes three separate metadata domains : EXIF, IPTC, and XMP. For any given photo file, no, some, or all of these domains may be present. For example, you can have a photo with only EXIF metadata -- in this case, only one domain (the EXIF domain) is present. Likewise, you can have a photo with both EXIF and XMP metadata -- in this case, two domains (EXIF and XMP) are present. One key feature of Shotwell's metadata handling is this: Shotwell will write out metadata only to domains that are already present in the photo. This is to say, if you have a photo that contains only EXIF and IPTC metadata and you change that photo's title, only the EXIF and IPTC title tags are updated. No new XMP domain is created. This is because the photo had no XMP data in it to begin with, and Shotwell will only write metadata out to pre-existing domains. I admit that this behavior is not terribly intuitive, so I've created a ticket reflecting this here: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3044 Regards, Lucas _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
