https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340211
--- Comment #4 from Johannes Zarl-Zierl <johan...@zarl.at> --- Here's my rationale for each item on the above list: - invalidate GPS information on the image Many cameras don't have geotagging built in. Therefore people geotag their images on their pc, using external gps log files. KPhotoAlbum has no way of changing the gps info, and the exif search db where the information is stored is considered a cache only. If the GPS information is changed outside KPA (e.g. because someone geotags their images after import to KPA), KPA should in my opinion always use the updated information. - invalidate the Thumbnail (instead of doing this in the new image finder) If you do minor adjustments to your images (white-balance, cropping, etc.) this should IMO be reflected in the thumbnail. - the image date, if it has not been changed internally This is the one thing that I'm not entirely sure about, yet. Notice the 'if' part, though. I've added it to the list because I alter the image date/time sometimes after the import into KPA. That can happen either through the "Adjust time and date" KIPI plugin, or sometimes directly using the exiv2 or exiftool commandline utilities. The reason for doing this is when I'm merging images from multiple cameras, the internal clocks are not that accurate and therefore the images need adjusting. Automatically updating the time *should* not be a problem for you when you modify images - at least no tool that I know of alters the EXIF creation timestamp that is used by KPA when reading the file date. I guess it would make sense to prevent falling back on the file modification time when EXIF is not available, though. - exif info in general (as well as the exifDB) - image dimensions This is IMO a no-brainer: if the image was changed, the exif search database (which is intended as a cache only) should be updated to reflect the reality. Also, the image dimensions should always be kept up to date. Does this make sense to you now that I've explained myself? On the "changing tags" part: I don't think I understood you correctly, there. I have not written anything about changing tags - rest assured that I did not intend to go about changing any tags on the images. Regarding the date/time adjustment: I would very much appreciate your thoughts on my proposed changes. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
