Hi, I just discovered geeqie and I'm considering switching to it from jbrout [http://jbrout.manatlan.com/] since it is much more feature-complete. One thing saddens me though.
Jbrout takes an extraordinary amount of effort to store (meta)data in the images itselves. Quoting the website: "Actually, jbrout uses an xml file, but this file can be rebuilt from scratch at any time, because all informations are in your file system, not in a database." I found the option to store metadata in the images in geeqie, and I'm pretty happy with it. But how far does it goes? What about collections, how are they handled? Jbrout also uses exif thumbnails (I guess geeqie can do it too) and updates them when needed. It saves and restore exif data when launching external (potentially exif-clueless) editors. As I mentionned, this is "extaordinary" and I don't expect geeqie to do all of this, but I'd like to know what I'm likely to lose if I lose my ~/.geeqie. Moreover, I'm a bit disappointed by the lack of support of Exif date photos are sorted by FILE date (even in calendar mode ! with the very exception of grid pan view mode). And there is no built-in facility to rename photos according to exif date (exiftool does it, of course, and that's what I'm relying on but sometimes I can't or don't want to rename the files). Do you plan to add something along those lines? Did I miss anything? Keep up the good work anyway, geeqie is pretty amazing. Regards, -- Gabriel Kerneis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
