Bengt Thuree wrote:
Hi How should F-Spot implement the Copyright information? My small thoughts. It should preferably be settable during import, unless already set.
Definitely --- in fact, you should be able to set a default copy right in the preferences that is used for all imports unless over-ridden.
It should be possible to display it in the main window (preference option?)
probably --- might also be good to have it as an option in the "View->Beneath photo" menu.
It should be possible to set the Copyright information as a normal tag from within F-Spot.
I am not sure that I agree here... I think tags should be used for categorizing photos --- not storing random bits of information about them. I think copyright should be treated similar to the 'comment' field (which, confusingly, is called "Description" in the code). I think it should be a new top-level entity
However, I do think it would be useful to be able to interact with copyright information in a somewhat similar way to tags --- it would be very useful to be able to filter out all photos matching (or not matching) a certain copyright string, for instance.
We might even want to store license information --- I see that flickr lets you indicate if your photos are creative commons licensed, for instance...
Warren