Versioning scheme

[Martin Rehn <martinrehn hotpop com>]

Hello,

Over at the Digikam bugzilla there has been a discussion regarding the lack of 
version control/image backup functionality in that program [1]. 

Noting that the f-spot version management scheme works so well for the user, I 
wonder how it works? I thought it could perhaps be promoted into a standard 
poor man's VCS to be shared across image management applications and file 
managers, much like the Thumbnail Managing Standard [2]. This way, for 
instance, a file manager could choose to display only the active version of 
an image, much like does f-spot itself.

But perhaps the version management is too tightly connected to the f-spot 
database? Or could it be decoupled from that and rely only on locally stored 
information, such as file names?

I am not a digikam developer.

/ Martin

[1] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103350
[2] http://jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/index.html