* Niranjan Rao <[email protected]> [01-18-21 10:41]: > I exported a image with description and title. None of the tools on Ubuntu > showed it me though exiftool showed it to me. I was thinking there is some > other use for these fields. > > > Thank you, > > Niranjan > On 1/17/21 10:16 PM, Remco Viëtor wrote:ough > > 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] > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
piwigo web albums can and do use those fields, iianm -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
