[Shotwell] metadata exporting RAW

[Simon Spannagel]

Hej Bruno,

yes, I followed the discussion you're referring to.

> However, it would require smarter meta-data handling that can handle meta-data
> differently depending on file type.
Don't you do that already now? Or did I get something wrong? You said 
you write the metadata to jpegs only (so you distinguish between them 
and RAWs).

And I completely agree with you that it a too high risk to write in 
(mostly changing and camera model depending) RAW files - I think this is 
one of the golden rules in digital photography: never touch your RAWs.

So maybe one could really do it like this: use the (mostly existing) XMP 
sidecars fpr RAW files and write the data directly into jpegs. Another 
point for this: most people want to access their jpegs over ordinary 
file manager as well - and don't want to be bothered by thousands of XMP 
sidecars. At least I wouldn't like that...

hej då,
Simon