Public bug reported:
When I run from the command line
shotwell /tmp/river-300x224_a.jpg
or when an image is viewed in shotwell via the nautilus file manager,
there is no way to see the description of the image (EXIF "Description" tag).
I can only get a tiny bit of other metadata, e.g. via menu Photo/Adjust date
and time.
Going to the help via F1 and searching for the standard EXIF name:
Description, yields "No matching help pages found in “Shotwell”."
Eventually I found that I should search for "Title", which told me:
The View ▸ Titles checkbox toggles the display of titles beneath each photo.
By default, a photo's title is its filename.
To change a photo's title, select the photo and click Photos ▸ Edit Title, or
press F2.
But there is no View / Titles entry in the menu. A web search finally
led me to the explanation on askubuntu:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/312867/how-to-add-metadata-to-images-
using-shotwell
Which says viewing the description is only available in "Shotwell
itself", not in 'Shotwell photo viewer'. I had no idea that I was not
using shotwell itself or that there were these different interfaces to
the same software.
Viewing descriptions / titles should be provided in the viewer also. As
described by the Library of Congress at
Adding Descriptions to Digital Photos
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/10/mission-possible-an-easy-way-to-add-descriptions-to-digital-photos/
it is a really important, basic feature to see and add a description to
a photo. Photos without descriptions are missing critical information
that should be easily available to users of the image, and it should be
easy to change. At the least, the menu item should appear and be grayed
out, and this should be explained in the documentation. It is very
confusing to have the documentation list an option which isn't there.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: shotwell 0.12.3-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-72.107-generic 3.2.64
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-72-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 17 08:26:00 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
(20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=screen
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shotwell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: shotwell (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise running-unity
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image description / title should be visible via shotwell viewer
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