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Very true but it begs the question of generic picture management policy.Very true but it begs the question of generic picture management policy.Posted Jun 17, 2010 7:16 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524)In reply to: Very true but it begs the question of generic picture management policy. by NicDumZ Parent article: A quick grumpy review of Shotwell
That is, infact, PRECISELY what kphotoalbum does.
It stores meta-information about the files in a xml-file, including the sha1sum of the files. This means that if you move, reogranize or rename your files, the meta-information will still apply.
The meta-information -also- sticks if you edit the file, because it has filename AND sha1sum. But if you do both, you lose the meta-information, unless you run "update sha1sums" (a maintenance-tool available in the tool-menu)
So "edit + update sums + move" is fine. But "edit + move" results in lost metainformation. Reasonable, in my opinion, because if the FILE changed AND the filename changed, how is any tool supposed to know it's "the same" file?
Kphotoalbum also does NOT import your pictures, nor ever change them in any way (though it supports kipi-plugins, and some of those do modify files)
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Very true but it begs the question of generic picture management policy. Posted Jun 17, 2010 9:43 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] Thanks for bringing it up. I'll have look at kphotoalbum, it sounds like the kind of tool I am looking for.
Very true but it begs the question of generic picture management policy. Posted Jun 17, 2010 13:02 UTC (Thu) by dmag (subscriber, #17775) [Link]
+1
I've been using kphotoalbum for years. The interface could be more intuitive, but it's OK once you get used to it. It's got hierarchical tags, add/remove multiple tags, etc. It will bring your recently-used tags to the top (but there is still a way to use a tag w/o bringing it to the top). It's got multiple categories of tags (people, places, keywords). It automatically finds any new photos you throw in the photo directory. (Let's face it, all your photos should be in one directory. 1TB drives are like $60 now.)
But my biggest wish would be for a really good web app, so my family could view and help tag the photos.
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