As Oded mentioned, Digikam + Gallery2(2.1) is a good one.
There is a plugin for that.
Since Gallery is highly configurable and extensible you
may even satisfy your programming skills :)
Note though that there serious security holes in Gallery
and is a constant target for attacks.
On 08/08/2007 10:28, Oded Arbel wrote:
Just adding a couple of cents.
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 08:58 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:
On 08/08/07, Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So basically, I'm looking for a photo management application
for Linux.
I use Digikam for a few years now and am very satisfied with it.
I'd like to also recommend Digikam
For example, I can add to each picture tags specifying the
persons in the
picture, location of the picture, and so on, and then, for
example, search
for all pictures containing a specific person. F-spot's
tags are a good
That's exactly why I like Digikam so much - being able to search on
tags.
I'd like to comment that Digikam tags can be ordered in a hierarchical
fashion - for example, in my albums I have top level "people", "places"
and "events" tags, and then I have tags for each person I wish to tag,
each place or each event. It makes is very easy to search for specific
things, or just browse around - selecting a top level tag would work as
you expect. Also I really like Digikam's way of tagging images - yes,
you can "edit" the image and write down tags manually, or - you can
create a tag in the tag tree, and then drag that tag to (one or more)
images or drag images to the tag.
5. I want a digital photo manager, not a digital camera
manager, and not a
sophisticated photo editor - for which separate
applications are available.
Check. I just mount my camera's card through the card reader, import
to Digikam using "import folder" and manually erase the photos from
the card. I think it can manipulate media connected through USB
directly ( e.g. connect your camera through USB cable and use the
special communications mode to talk to it)
Yes it does. you can add your camera to Digikam, and whenever you plug
it in you can load Digikam's import dialog which lets you select the
pictures you want to import and either "download", "delete" or "download
and delete" (which saves time on the whole process, IMHO).
but I like the "manual" "mount + copy" approach, not the least
because it saves on camera batteries and I think it's also faster as
I'm not sure my camera (Canon EOS 350D) supports USB 2 at all.
I have no idea why you think so - on the contrary, minimizing the number
of human actions and hence time spent with the camera on seems to me to
save on batteries. Also - transfer speed has nothing to do with it,
unless you refer to import tools' feature to show you thumbnails of the
images before you import them, but that is optional - you can start to
select and move your photos before the thumbnail generation is complete.
I personally no longer use the Digikam camera import feature. As I use
GNOME as my default desktop, it has the "camera import wizard" pops up
as soon as I connect my camera and I find it easier and faster to use
that.
6. Bonus points for an application that doubles as (or is
only) a Web-
application
That's one thing I miss in Digikam. I currently use Gallery2 which
imports photos from the Digikam folders. Gallery has an option to link
to existing files so it doesn't keep another copy of the image. It can
manage multiple users with different levels of access defined per
image or per folder.
Digikam has several export methods, including the ability to generate
HTML files for upload to website (or directly to your web folder if you
host your web site locally). I use Gallery2 as well, on a remote server,
and Digikam offers an "export to remote gallery" feature that allows me
to easily upload images to Gallery2.
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