Re: [PATCH] Improve date retreival from exif data

[Larry Ewing <lewing novell com>]

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 11:58 +1000, Stewart Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 15:06 +0200, Nico Kaiser wrote:
> > Stewart Smith wrote:
> > That would be great! It's easy to set the mtime of Photos that don't
> > have EXIF tags (think of my scanned old picture collection...), but not
> > that easy to set EXIF tags... 
> 

The code to set the exif tag is trivial inside f-spot, I just haven't
taken the time to come up with an UI that I like yet.  A lot of people
have been requesting the ability to fix dates though, so it will happen
soon.

> Okay, maybe I'll learn a bit more about C#/Mono and try and construct a
> patch that fully implements it.
> 
> 
> > Also, it would be nice to have F-Spot check if the files exist and
> > display the question mark icon in the thumbnail view (instead of in the
> > full view) to let the user decide whether to remove it from the library
> > or keep it (if it's a removable drive).
> 
> Possibly what would be better is to have an option (enabled by default)
> where f-spot copies the photos to somewhere sensible (~/Pictures for
> example) in a sane directory structure (much like iPhoto does).
> 
> Although good removable media support would also rock.
> 

I have plans for handling both of these cases.  Copy on import will go
in very soon.  Prompting for missing media is a little bit farther away
but I plan to do it.  I'm not sure if I'll display it in the thumbnail
view though I'll have to think about that.

> > BTW, I really love F-Spot and use it for my 10000+ collection right
> > now! :-)
> 
> I've experimented with my 13000+ collection and have found performance
> to be acceptable. Things like the dates thing need to be fixed before I
> can really use it though (things from 2000/2001 showing up like i just
> took them for instance).
> 

Have you noticed anything in particular being slow?

> This certainly has the promise of being a killer-app though!

Thanks

--Larry