https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452680
--- Comment #4 from Paul Krause <paul_krause_1...@t-online.de> --- Dear Maik, dear Gilles, I do not dare to predict the usage, but, according to some googling, there is virtually no software using them at the moment. The only "big" usage of non-face regions I'm aware of is Wikimedia Commons, for example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helsinki-hafen-panorama.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image-February_21,_2008_lunar_eclipse_and_stars,_West_Hartford,_CT,_3-17_UTC.jpg I'd just guess, the more software, and image repositories, support non-face regions, the likelier for others to do so too. In case there is only doubt about the specific IPTC regions, personally I would be fine with some other implementation too. But, I do not see a good alternative to appear soon. A) The region in the MWG namespace [1] is to limited. E.g., it only allows regions (per the tag mwg-rs:Type) for "BarCode", "Face", "Focus" and "Pet". The MWG seems to be dead, so little hope for a new version. B) Inventing new tags, or a whole namespace, and expanding, or breaking, some existing specification is similar to the Acdsee namespace in xmp, which exiftool comments with "Your applications mumble to themselves instead of speaking out for the rest of the world to hear." [2]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180919181934/http://www.metadataworkinggroup.org/pdf/mwg_guidance.pdf#page=51 [2] https://exiftool.org/TagNames/XMP.html#acdsee Thanks, Paul -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
