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 digikam

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Todd Goodman
* Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [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

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com 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

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 Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com 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 Todd Goodman
* Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [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

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Dale
Todd Goodman wrote: * Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [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

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. It

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 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 copy

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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com 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

2012-03-04 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

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

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 + dbus to

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.

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

2005-06-07 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 the

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-07 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 of

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 just work If

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 utopia which is aimed to

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 that

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. This

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 end

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: To

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, but making

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-06 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

2005-06-06 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 just use

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 system.

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 vfat

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/camera Zac I

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

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 supported then use that

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

2005-06-05 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 --

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 very full

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 any