Response from Shotwell team founder

Posted Jun 21, 2010 20:49 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Response from Shotwell team founder by Velmont
Parent article: A quick grumpy review of Shotwell

The digikam tags are just stored in a database, so if you shut it down first (or are using a non-sqlite database in recent versions) you can add tags in bulk using raw SQL, restart digikam and write the lot out to the images with a couple of mouse clicks. :)

(but, to be honest, a lot of the time tagging depends on the contents of the images, and for that a bunch of select-mouse-clicks and tag clicks are actually a *good* user interface. Using WIMP GUIs for things that actually are graphical in nature seems like a good idea to me.)

Response from Shotwell team founder

Posted Jun 23, 2010 5:17 UTC (Wed) by Velmont (guest, #46433) [Link]

Well, ... I've got so many tags. I tag with e.g. names, and so I need to write, I'm writing Jack Smi[...word complete...]. Etc.

So what I want is to go to next picture, add tag «jack smi...», add tag «ha» [ppy], next picture. etc.

You can't do that quickly by the mouse. By all means, the mouse ui can stay, I would probably use that for some things, but not for my main tagging.