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by Martin on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @16:11

The #1 thing I'd like to see in Digikam is some form of version control, that lets you go crazy and touch up your pictures while preserving, at least, the original picture. These issues were discussed at length here[1], but all that came out of that particular bug was a confirmation dialog when saving an image from the image editor.

Don't laugh now, but this is the most important thing that is keeping me from migrating my parents to Linux. Here is the scenario, that would apply not just to parents but to any user lacking very strong self-discipline: They find a picture that they like, so they fix it up a little. Apply red eye. Crop it. Tweak the colors and contrast. Make it look better on the screen. That's what Digikam invites you to do. Now they decide that they *really* like the picture, so they ask me to come over and help them make the most of it for printing. And then it is ruined, because of the sloppy, lossy editing that they already did. And that's not their fault, imho, but that of the software that is too unforgiving.

[1] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103350

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Re: image version control
by m. on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @23:49

That is planned as "next big thing". 0.10 has already so many great features that need testing, testing, testing. Versioning thing has to be rock stable and reliable, it will require much effort.

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