On Thu, Mar 22, 2018, at 03:25, Bernhard wrote: > > Recently I added Geeqie to my workflow to sort and reduce the number of > photos to process in dt in "mass shootings" (sports, birds in motion > etc.) - that helped a lot in reducing e.g. from 500 to 50 photos at the > end of a session - I would not do this in dt. on any machine. > > Regarding Geeqie: I did not investigate if Geeqie will write xmps which > can be read by dt as I simply use it for reducing the number of photos > => selecting the best only. > http://www.geeqie.org/help/GuideOptionsMetadata.html
I use Geeqie in a very similar way. Normally I only use its tagging ability for files that are already JPEGs for whatever reason, but I just did a quick test tagging a RAW file and saving the data to XMP... darktable imports the tags just fine along with the file. Geeqie doesn't have "ratings" or "labels", though... it does have "marks", which are just numbers 1-6. It can use these marks for organizing files in various ways, but it doesn't seem to save them as XMP metadata. The best you could do would probably be to use marks as ratings, since they're fast to apply with the keyboard, then just before importing everything into darktable, use the marks to add ratings as tags, which you could delete in darktable after using them to select the files and apply ratings. Possibly not convenient, but Geeqie is a really nice, efficient program with quite a bit of configurability as to what it spends CPU cycles and memory on. Last time I checked, the new GTK3 build still had some odd UI quirks, so I would stick with GTK2 for now, personally. -- jys ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
