On lundi 18 janvier 2021 04:43:13 CET Niranjan Rao wrote: > Ubuntu 20.04, darktable 2.4.1 > > > Apologies if this sounds really dumb question, but I am trying to figure > out what's the usage of fields like description/title. I could not > figure out a way to edit these fields from darkroom view, but lightroom > allows me to set the values. > > > If you set title and/or description, are there any other tools - may be > like web browser or file explorer like tools that can show the > information on mouse hover or something. I think it will really neat if > functionality already exists. > > At least on Ubuntu, I did not see title/description displayed in default > image viewer or image properties even though it shows other information. > For raw files (and perhaps other formats as well), dt doesn't write to the original image file, and I don't think image viewers bother with sidecar files. So your image viewer doesn't get to see the title and description (nor tags/keywords you added!)
You get the description and title fields written in exported files (if you didn't change that), and then your image viewer should pick them up. Remco ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
