Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-08 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 11:04:47AM -0600, Dale wrote: >> It is a nice program and I'm pretty sure it allows you to download from >> your card too. I'm not sure gtkam will allow downloads from the card so >> you are likely headed down the right road. >> Honestly, if dig

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 11:04:47AM -0600, Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: > > > Based on this and other posts in the thread, I'll probably give > > digikam a try. I did want to clarify one point, though: I don't > > connect the camera to the computer; I put the SD card into a card > > reader, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 12:10:40 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > Well, I use scp to move the files from machines with with card readers > to the machines I do processing. If digikam has any kind of 'import' > support, that'd do it. Just drop the files into Digikam's working directory and run "Scan for new

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: > Check out the Eye-Fi? > > http://www.eye.fi/ > > When I first heard about it, someone had just gotten a receiving > daemon written in Python to work with it. > Well, I don't have any wi-fi around here. I live in the sticks but I still don't want that, not yet at least.

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Dale
Todd Goodman wrote: > * Dale [120305 12:09]: > [..] >> Honestly, if digikam worked right with my camera, I'd use it in a heart >> beat. I like it but I can't get my pics to show up right. I can't >> figure out why tho. Maybe I should try getting from the stick like you >> do? Thing is, I leave

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Todd Goodman
* Dale [120305 12:09]: [..] > Honestly, if digikam worked right with my camera, I'd use it in a heart > beat. I like it but I can't get my pics to show up right. I can't > figure out why tho. Maybe I should try getting from the stick like you > do? Thing is, I leave my camera on the tri-pod ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: > >> Based on this and other posts in the thread, I'll probably give >> digikam a try. I did want to clarify one point, though: I don't >> connect the camera to the computer; I put the SD card into a card >> reader, and copy from th

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: > Based on this and other posts in the thread, I'll probably give > digikam a try. I did want to clarify one point, though: I don't > connect the camera to the computer; I put the SD card into a card > reader, and copy from there. > It is a nice program and I'm pretty sure it

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: >> So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around >> 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got >> a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different >> camera models

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Todd Goodman
* Michael Mol [120304 15:12]: > So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around > 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got > a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different > camera models, etc, going back ten years. Sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-04 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > > As someone who also takes a LOT of pictures at times, I don't use > software, I just use directories. Mine starts out like this: Camera > directory > Year > subject matter > image That works for me. I used to > not have the year but that ends up with a LOT of pictures in a > d

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around > 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got > a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different > camera models, etc, going back

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-04 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: > So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around > 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got > a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different > camera models, etc, going back ten years. Sometimes in JPG, some

[gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-04 Thread Michael Mol
So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different camera models, etc, going back ten years. Sometimes in JPG, sometimes RAW, sometimes both.

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
I don't think so, because it will try to support everything it can, when you should be able to get only what you really NEED. But as you said, its a solution (not so temporary, as cross-platform drivers are still a dream, an "utopia" :)) and if it does the job, carry on. On 6/7/05, Grant <[EMAIL P

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/8/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (please.. someone re-assure me!!) You are hereby reassured. ;-) - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:02 -0700, Grant wrote: > > To me, it's not a focus on gentopia. Gentopia is Gentoo's version of the > > project utopia stack (which is more GNOME specific). > > > > for example, gamin is the successor to famd which works more efficiently > > based on inotify. > > > > gnom

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-08 Thread Grant
> To me, it's not a focus on gentopia. Gentopia is Gentoo's version of the > project utopia stack (which is more GNOME specific). > > for example, gamin is the successor to famd which works more efficiently > based on inotify. > > gnome-volume-manager for example works with gamin + udev + hal + d

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 08:45 -0700, Grant wrote: > > I don't think so, Gentoo (at least as far as I know) is minimalist and > > provides you with choices. Making it all "automagic" seems cool to the > > average user that don't have time, patience or will to know what's > > happening in the system, b

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-07 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 6/7/05, David D. Rea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At the risk of playing devil's advocate, there's a flipside to this. > Code is [almost] never perfect, and anyone who subscribes to > gentoo-announce knows that there are almost always security flaws > discovered (and patched) after an initial

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-07 Thread David D. Rea
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 13:32 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > The fact is that we need the hardware corporations to release drivers > for its hardware that works on all systems, take a look at NVidia, it > took me 10 minutes to install my video drive, both on Win and Lin. > What I meant to say is: T

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-07 Thread Grant
> What I meant to say is: To support new hardware should be more of a > hardware engineer problem than an OS programmer one. I see, very interesting. From that point of view, Gentopia is a temporary solution until hardware manufacturers get it together. But even so, doesn't Gentopia mimic the en

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-07 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 6/7/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But don't you think the computer systems of the future would surely > implement something like Gentopia? Things can always be done > manually, but automatic seems like a step forward. On the other hand, > I do agree with the things you're saying.

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-07 Thread Grant
> I don't think so, Gentoo (at least as far as I know) is minimalist and > provides you with choices. Making it all "automagic" seems cool to the > average user that don't have time, patience or will to know what's > happening in the system, but making it default would take the freedom > of people

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-07 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 6/7/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Or try Project Gentopia and make it automatic > > > > > > I checked it out here: > > > > > > https://dev.cardoe.com/gentopia/ > > > > > > but I can't quite figure out what it's all about. > > > > Project Gentopia is gentoo's version of project uto

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-07 Thread Grant
> > > Or try Project Gentopia and make it automatic > > > > I checked it out here: > > > > https://dev.cardoe.com/gentopia/ > > > > but I can't quite figure out what it's all about. > > Project Gentopia is gentoo's version of project utopia which is aimed to > take the kludge and making hardware "

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Nick Rout
kimdaba is fantastic, and in portage the database facilities of it are great, it gives the ability to quickly and easily label your pics with arbitrary categories, name, location. occasion, or anything else you choose. Then you can pull up every photo with, for example, "nick" and "party" (which

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 22:42 -0700, Grant wrote: > > Or try Project Gentopia and make it automatic > > I checked it out here: > > https://dev.cardoe.com/gentopia/ > > but I can't quite figure out what it's all about. Project Gentopia is gentoo's version of project utopia which is aimed to take t

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Grant
> Or try Project Gentopia and make it automatic I checked it out here: https://dev.cardoe.com/gentopia/ but I can't quite figure out what it's all about. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 10:56 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > --- Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > So access to a camera via USB Mass Storage is > > preferred over gphoto2? > > > > - Grant > > > > Gphoto2 is for cameras that don't support USB Mass > Storage. If USB Mass Storage is suppo

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:56:58 -0700 (PDT), Zac Medico wrote: > Gphoto2 is for cameras that don't support USB Mass > Storage. If USB Mass Storage is supported then use > that instead. Gphoto2 does a lot more than USB Mass Storage, which only lets you mount the camera and access its files. Gphoto2 l

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Grant
> > So access to a camera via USB Mass Storage is > > preferred over gphoto2? > > > > - Grant > > > > Gphoto2 is for cameras that don't support USB Mass > Storage. If USB Mass Storage is supported then use > that instead. > > modprobe usb-storage > dmesg | grep sd > mount -t vfat /dev/sd? /mnt/c

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So access to a camera via USB Mass Storage is > preferred over gphoto2? > > - Grant > Gphoto2 is for cameras that don't support USB Mass Storage. If USB Mass Storage is supported then use that instead. modprobe usb-storage dmesg | grep sd mount -t v

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Grant
> > Thanks guys, I think I'm going to go with gthumb. > > My current camera > > doesn't integrate with gphoto2, but I'm getting a > > new one that I'm > > sure will. It looks like gthumb has a gphoto2 USE > > flag so I can use > > gthumb now and then integrate it with gphoto2 when I > > get my new

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Daniel da Veiga
I like Kuickshow, buts its a bit unstable and masked at the portage tree... So far I never had problems with it, and if I do, I'll search for other options. Anyway, a previous version of The GIMP use to came with a plugin that was in fact a VERY GOOD photo manager, but later versions didn't carry i

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
--- Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks guys, I think I'm going to go with gthumb. > My current camera > doesn't integrate with gphoto2, but I'm getting a > new one that I'm > sure will. It looks like gthumb has a gphoto2 USE > flag so I can use > gthumb now and then integrate it with

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Grant, on Sunday, 2005-06-05 at 18:58:20, you wrote: > What do you guys use to manage your digital photos? Gtkam for downloading (my camera doesn't implement USB mass storage, otherwise I'd just mount it as I can do with my wife's), gqview for everything else. IMHO, Eye Of Gnome is fine as a on

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Grant
> I use Eye of Gnome most of the time but I also like gThumb and earlier > tonight I found an interesting app called Pornview which seems very > full featured. All three of these apps integrate well with Gnome > although I'm not sure if Pornview is in portage as I installed it on a > Ubuntu syste

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Oscar Carlsson
Last time I tried f-spot it crashed on me, it didn't matter what versions of f-spot and mono I ran... :( It might have been a User Error (tm)... :-) måndagen den 6 juni 2005 10.35 skrev Ow Mun Heng: > On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 22:29 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: > > On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:58:48 -0400 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 22:29 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:58:48 -0400 > Simon Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bob: does that works with gnome? If it doesn't... what about the Gnome > > desktop enviroment users? > > > > I don't have a full gnome nor kde install. I

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-05 Thread Andrew Potter
LWN.net had an article just on this about a month ago: http://lwn.net/Articles/132051/ Cheers :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-05 Thread Greg Bur
On 6/6/05, Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 01:17:22 -0400 > Greg Bur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I use Eye of Gnome most of the time but I also like gThumb and earlier > > tonight I found an interesting app called Pornview which seems very > > full featured. Al

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 01:17:22 -0400 Greg Bur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use Eye of Gnome most of the time but I also like gThumb and earlier > tonight I found an interesting app called Pornview which seems very > full featured. All three of these apps integrate well with Gnome > although I'm n

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:58:48 -0400 Simon Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob: does that works with gnome? If it doesn't... what about the Gnome > desktop enviroment users? > I don't have a full gnome nor kde install. I just use what I need from gnome and kde. I've not had problems with

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-05 Thread Greg Bur
On 6/5/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you guys use to manage your digital photos? > > - Grant > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > I use Eye of Gnome most of the time but I also like gThumb and earlier tonight I found an interesting app called Pornview which seems v

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-05 Thread Simon Castillo
Bob: does that works with gnome? If it doesn't... what about the Gnome desktop enviroment users? Simon Bob Sanders wrote: On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 18:58:20 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What do you guys use to manage your digital photos? [ I] media-gfx/digikam (0.7.1): digiKa

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-05 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 18:58:20 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you guys use to manage your digital photos? > [ I] media-gfx/digikam (0.7.1): digiKam is a digital photo management application for KDE. You only need parts of KDE, not everything. I run it under Enlightenment. Bob

[gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-05 Thread Grant
What do you guys use to manage your digital photos? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list