Re: EOG - Exif Display Plugin options

[Xavier Guillot <Valeryan_24 laposte net>]

Hello Felix,

Thanks for your complete answer.

> > I have a little questions regarding Exif Display plugin of Eye of Gnome.
> >
> > - First, is there a way to make EoG remember presence of the lateral panel on the left of the window ? If I make it visible with menu "View", then close Eye of Gnome and restart it, panel is gone, I have to re-select it, on EoG 3.2.
> Yes, that sounds like a little race condition between the generation of the window and plugin loading. It could be that the plugins are not loaded yet for the specific window when it checks if there's content in the sidebar and then hides it because there's none yet.The plugin system changed between 2.32 and 3.0 which is why it could have worked in the older version.

Should I report it to Bugzilla, too ?

> > - How to make in this panel always the Exif Display plugin the one visible ? If Map plugin is also activated in the preferences, it's this one which is automatically shown, I have to select Exif Display in the menu,
> > I'd like to have it by default.
> No, this is not possible yet. At the moment the first view that gets added to the sidebar should be shown by default. Although it's interesting to see that the map plugin manages to get preference over the Exif Details plugin. You may want to open a feature request for this in our Bugzilla.

OK, I'll do it. But it's not a very annoying bug, few photos I have in 
my collection have the geographic localization, and I prefer see the 
Exif Details.

> > - On the View Exif plugin, is it possible to add some fields that are also visible in the "Properties" window of the image
> Well, I actually plan to make the data that is available in the properties dialog's "General" and "Metadata" tab available in the sidebar again. I don't know if this already enough information displayed for you ("XMP Exif" and "XMP IPTC" won't be listed).
>
> The Exif Display plugin could still stay as a it only shows the most important stuff by default and additionally a histogram. I guess noone would object if someone would make the displayed metadata configurable for the plugin, allowing a more specific view of metadata.

That's a very good news and would be perfect. Yes, it would be enough if 
all the datas from "General" and "Metadata" become available directly in 
Exif Display, even in option to allow everyone to choose what is displayed :

General : Name - Width - Height - Type - Size - Folder
Metadata : Description - Location - Keywords - Author - Camera - Date

There will be the descriptions and keywords added, for example, in 
Shotwell and would allow to open images from Nautilus, Thunderbird... 
and browse collections by having all the informations about the photos 
on the lateral side, in addition to the thumbnail view in the bottom, nice !

Best regards,

Xavier