https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278935
knick <kn...@byom.de> changed:
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--- Comment #14 from knick <kn...@byom.de> ---
As windows user for ages I wanted to give dk another try and found that it
would just read meta data from my tiffs but none from my raw files. What a
mess!
Browsing the web I found a few discussions on this problem and finally arrived
here.
I always felt dropping the extension and adding ".ext" to a file name was a bad
decision by adobe. I sometimes stumbled in this trap too with my ".cr2" and
".nef" files using the same base name. But it is widely accepted since many
years and I have more than 350,000 side car files following this rule.
I also love the idea to allow side cars for all file types, even ".jpg",
".tiff" or whatever. Using side cars is much smarter than writing meta data
into the image files. Makes backup much smaller and faster :-)
So here's my suggestion to allow all thinkable naming schemes and leave the
decision to the users. There already exists a dialogue to add other extensions
like ".pp3". But this only can give "{basename}{ext}.pp3".
Why not drill this procedure and allow to type full templates like
"{basename}{ext}.ext" (used by dk)
"{basename}.ext" (the standard from adobe and widely used outside the linux
world)
"{basename}{ext}.pp3" (the sample in the dialogue in dk)
or even
"{subfolder}/{basename}{ext}.ext" (for people who love to browse their file
base and down't want to see the side cars)
and also allow to type any other combination the users might want.
Templates like
"tiff:{basename}{ext}.ext"
"jpg:{basename}{ext}.ext"
"nef:{basename}.ext"
"cr2:{basename}.ext"
would even allow to have different naming schemes for different file types.
Then make the top most template the default for writing if no other side car
can be found and try the list top down to find a side car for reading.
Thanx for reading, knick
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