David, On 08/18/2010 04:13 PM, David Rolph wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm a happy novice Shotwell user. >
Glad you're happy so far! :) > I'd like to start tagging my photos. At bit of hunting around leads me to > believe that IPTC offers me the best chance of persistent tagging of my > photos that extends beyond the boundaries of whatever tool I am using to > view them. This is attractive to me for many reasons. My wife uses Picasa > which I believe should be able to read and write those tags too. If I send > my photos to somebody else or perhaps an online service then I know my tags > are going with them. Basically, I'd like to tag my photos once, now and > never again. > Yes - that makes sense. > So I've updated to Shotwell 0.6 which I believe can read and write these > tags. But I'm not quite clear on how the write function works. Is it > necessary for me to Export in order to write the tags? If I simply tag an > image in Shotwell it doesn't seem to modify the original file. When I > select Export it gives me compression settings. I'd prefer not to modify my > image data (non destructive is a very attractive shotwell feature for me.) > > I did find some discussions of whether Shotwell should write the IPTC tags > as they are changed or whether to reduce overhead it should not. Does 0.6 > not automatically update the tags? > Shotwell 0.6 writes tags to files only at export time, and the upcoming Shotwell 0.7 will behave the same way. We've had many requests for Shotwell to (optionally) write tags into existing photo files on the fly - this is http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1290 . I'm hopeful we'll be able to implement this in the next release or two. cheers adam _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
