On 13/05/2019 07:06, mick crane wrote: > windows there's > https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ exiftools > http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/~bogdan/ GUI for exiftools > > linux looks like exiv2 will do it.
There's a lot of artificially generated umbrage here. The UNIX principle of "each thing does one thing and does it well" makes no sense other than in a UNIX/Linux context because of the interprocess communication and management tools. To a UNIX/Linux programmer a program spawning off a child process that does a specialized task and returns the result to the parent is quite natural because of the co-processing and 'pipes' nature of the OS and libraries. And yes this feature is available in the shell. (See the section on 'Coprocess' in the man page) And yes you can set it up so both processes stay active and control passes back and forth. And yes you can do this with GUI-dom. The question is not "can you" but "should you". Elsewhere the developers of DT have written on the evils of modifying the EXIF information. q.v. -- “We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.” ―― Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
