Re: EXIF reader for EOG

[Tim Gerla <tim gerla net>]

Michael Tiemann wrote:
> Jens tells me that he is no longer the maintainer of EOG, but that this
> list is the right place to send such a suggestion.
>
> I have been collaborating with Phil Harvey, the author of exiftool.  His
> tool seems to be the one piece of free software that gets the most
> detailed exif data of /any/ tool I've found.  I notice, for example,
> that EOG doesn't get nearly the amount of data that exiftool can
> extract (such as focal length of lens used, EV of scene photographed, etc).
>
> I don't know exactly what mechanism EOG uses to extract EXIF data, but
> if there's a way it can use the exiftool perl script, your users will be amazed.
> Here's the URL: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
>
> Best regards,

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the note. I'm the current EOG maintainer after Jens. I'll 
definitely take a look at the exiftool script and see what can be 
borrowed. I don't think that calling a Perl program from eog is the 
right idea, but I'm sure that EOG's exif tools could be improved 
considerably, and I'll take a peek at what exiftool can do.

Later,

-Tim