Yes, Image *Management* apps. [LWN.net]

Yes, Image Management apps.

Posted Apr 19, 2005 11:22 UTC (Tue) by Luud (subscriber, #21831)
In reply to: Yes, Image *Management* apps. by pizza
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Management Applications

Hi pizza,

Yes, I like PO too. Currently I'm working with Balint (the PO developer) to create a bulk upload feature that works from the command line. I've also got about 10000 fotos to enter into the database, and my webserver will not be able to cope with that through http.

Also, Balint is now working hard on the bulk update feature. So you can expect that in the next version.

I'm quite interrested in your user tools. Maybe it is a good idea to let Balint know what you are doing with them. I've found him to be very open to other peoples ideas.

As far as scalability goes for gthumb. It works very good for me on handling collections of up to 3000 fotos at a time in a directory tree. Renaming goes fine, although there is one feature they should better turn off: when typing in the new name in the rename series dialog, it kan take quite a while before your screen gets updated when there are lots of images to rename.

Cheers,
Luud

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Yes, Image *Management* apps.

Posted Apr 19, 2005 15:26 UTC (Tue) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

I've been trading e-mails with Balint, and I am looking forward to the bulk update interface. I ended up coding up a few hack-ish things to get me by in the mean time though... but I'm also comfortable with SQL, so I do even more directly to the database...

As far as bulk uploads.. I feel your pain. It took me nearly three weeks to get all of mine uploaded in roughly 100 meg batches. Of course if I hadn't cared about things like setting the location and whatnot, it would have gone faster. That lack of a bulk update feature, ya see...

But I couldn't wait for the next release. I was already four months behind getting stuff posted (I was using BINS, and it just couldn't scale.. so I'd need an image management app to manage BINS..) so I fired up emacs and started hacking on the PO codebase.

Balint's accepted the majority of my patches, though he hasn't got back to me yet on the last one. (http://www.shaftnet.org/po/ if you want to see what I've done so far)