On 27 August 2011 21:08, pt <[email protected]> wrote: > I use both. Plus after the tagging I also translate all the XMP into > IPTC.
For me, it all boils down to be able to have my pictures 'working' with whatsoever software: I don't want to be bound to a single application. I try to use all the equivalent tags so if I use photos inside Wordpress or Picasa or Flickr or <your-favourite-web-place-for photos> I don't have to do all the tagging again. Been there, done that :-/ A good thing about geeqie (sudo apt-get install geeqie) is that when you tag the XMP it translates automagically the tags into the IPTC fields. Unfortunately, it doesn't maintain a database of your photos, thus searching photos by tags is a PITA. I still have to find the 'perfect' photo manager. I do things the unix way: many specialised little applications doing just one thing, but doing it well :-) A note for the developers: wouldn't it be great to have a modular system for Shotwell where one can decide to use one application for tagging, another one for editing, another one for playing videos and so on? Shotwell could call the configured preferred application to do the specific operation and after that go back to the normal Shotwell interface. Ciao ciao, Piergi -- Web: http://traversin.org GNU/Linux user 190604 _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
