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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 29, 2010 18:15 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Very true but it begs the question of generic picture management policy. by paulj
Parent article: A quick grumpy review of Shotwell

you mean like EXIF tags inside a image file?


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Very true but it begs the question of generic picture management policy.

Posted Jun 30, 2010 6:59 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Yes. Is EXIF limited in some way though, that makes it less than useful for image apps to put all their metadata in there?

Very true but it begs the question of generic picture management policy.

Posted Jun 30, 2010 7:19 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

probably the fact that it's fairly expensive to search metadata that's part of many separate files compared to having the data condensed into one file/database

this applies to xattr use as well.

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