XnView Software

I agree... being able to filter on an "accept/reject" label would be critical. I do agree that you can somewhat do "picks" (accepted, pending, rejected, none) using color labels, but there are a few issues with that. For one, it means you have fewer color labels to use for any other purpose. And ...

Certainly. Here are some images for which metadata was saved in Digikam. I saved "pick" metadata, as well as rating and color metadata. (You'll notice that the rating info loads correctly in XnView! And the keyboard shortcut is even the same.)

Digikam refers to these three things generally as ...

No, it's different from a Tag. A Tag is a way of temporarily marking pictures so that you can do something with an entire set of selected photos. It doesn't *have* to be temporary (you can set the file list never to be cleared), but it seems to be designed with this sort of use in mind. This is ...

First -- thanks for the great work on this program. It's really exceptional.

One thing that is lacking for handling photos in my workflow is a built-in ability to label/tag photos as being "accepted" or "rejected" (or "status pending", or no label at all). This is a feature in Digikam that I love ...