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I don't need a photo manager

I don't need a photo manager

Posted Jun 17, 2010 12:19 UTC (Thu) by skx (subscriber, #14652)
In reply to: I don't need a photo manager by sorpigal
Parent article: A quick grumpy review of Shotwell

You're not alone in wanting something like that.

I've written a hokey set of shell-scripts for adding tags to images, storing them in the EXIF data. Right now I have EXIF comments which look like "Tag:colour Tag:outdoors Tag:people Tag:people-me" which isn't ideal, but is simple to parse, update, and remove.

I keep thinking I should write a tool to make this a GUI process, storing tag information both in an image and in an SQLite database for speed. But I never quite get round to it.

If somebody else would that would be ideal.


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