Hello Lars, and thank you for your help. Sometimes it is those little things that make you struggle ;-)
I never realized that this "Sort by Exif-Date" entry was there. Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience Michael Am Mittwoch, den 23.06.2010, 14:05 +0200 schrieb Lars Ellenberg: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:12:05PM +0200, Michael wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > as I am a convinced user of geeqie and new to this mailing list, first > > of all I want to say hello to everyone and thank the > > geeqie-development-team for their amazing work they have done so far! > > > > One little thing that bugs me is, that internally geeqie uses the file > > modification date of a picture for internal processes (for example pan > > view - calendar or timeline, histogram information in geeqie main view). > > I am using geeqie-gps 1.0beta2 under Ubuntu 10.04. > > > > I don't know how other users think about it but for me this date is of > > minor importance. More interesting for me, when it comes to sorting my > > pictures, is the EXIF-Date (which geeqie reads out and displays > > correctly). > > > > To give a short example how it affects me: > > For example I took a photo on a birthday. That date (if the camera is > > set up properly) will be saved to the EXIFs. If I know correct some red > > eyes, maybe 2 month later, that new date will be saved as file > > modification date. If I know open the pan view - timeline, the picture > > is no longer correlated to the event date (EXIF) but to the modification > > date of the file. > > > > Is there any chance I can change that behaviour at the moment? > > right click, sort by exif date? > > ;-) > > Or, of course, you could, post-editing, apply the exif date to the mtime. > timtowtdi, one is > renrot --no-rotate --no-rename --no-tags --mtime * > others involve exiftool, xargs, date and touch... > > Lars > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Geeqie-devel mailing list > Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
