I hope you don't mind me adding my 2 cents here. I generate my photo albums using a simple script from marginalhacks.com called album (http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/). I'm very happy with it, and it seems quite popular (search for the word "album" on google, it's the first hit).
I've just been making a few tweaks to mythgallery to support it (for my own use really, but I'd be very happy to share the patch if there's any interest). Currently, my changes are trivial, being limited to not much more than suppressing the album-specific thumbnail directories etc. from the thumbnail view. It's been tackled in similar way to the existing support for gallery.sourceforge.net. There I was, wondering how much effort it'd be to pick up albums "captions.txt" file and do something useful with it, and I come across this mailling list thread. (I'm patching 0.18.1, so until this thread, I've been unaware of any specific captions support.) On reading Herman's initial mail, it sounded like the perfect answer to my problem. Though being able to retrieve captions from EXIF data would be very useful to many, I have to say that if mythgallery provided the ability to add such a caption-retrieving script, it'd make it really easy to pull the captions out of album. "album" has a few methods to specify image captions, the primary method being the captions.txt file I refer to above. Though of course, it'd be possible to write some kind of script that parsed my photo directories, reading the captions from text files, and inserting into EXIF images, personally that route wouldn't appeal to me. I like the way album manages it's captions, and judging by it's popularity, many others seem to agree. So I guess I just wanted to suggest that while "built in" support for EXIF captions would be a great feature, allowing for non-EXIF alternatives might be more popular than it first appears. (And of course, "built in" support for marginalhacks album would make my day!) As I say, just my 2 cents. :-) Cheers, Glyn -- Glyn Davies _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
