On ne 30. srpna 2009, Gabriel Kerneis wrote: > 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? Collections are currently just text files that contain list of images. There were some discussions on this mailinglist how to improve it, but no decision was made yet.
> Jbrout also uses exif thumbnails (I guess geeqie can do > it too) and updates them when needed. Geeqie can use exif thumbnails, but the option is off by default because some editors leave the thumbnail unchanged and it could be confusing. Geeqie does not update the thumbnail, except for adjusting orientation, which is implemented by external script that uses exiftran. It should be possible to add another external script for regenerating thumbnail. > It saves and restore exif data > when launching external (potentially exif-clueless) editors. AFAIK gimp, ImageMagick and UFraw handle exif fine. Other editors can be eventually fixed by using some wrapper script. IMO a generic fix in geeqie is hard. > 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). This is on TODO list, but first we need a database cache. Reading exif date from all files in a list can be slow and it has to be done before the list is shown. > 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). This could be added easily, but I am fine with exiftool too ;) Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
