Re: F-Spot on Two Computers?

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen gmail com>]

On 13/11/06, Patrick Wagstrom <wagspat iit edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 10:24 -0800, ulugeyik wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Ican not locate any information if it is possible to share f-spot tags
> > between two computers with *non-identical* set of photos? What I am thinking
> > is having a directory structure on a desktop with all the photos, and a
> > laptop with a subset of the photos . Tagging can be done on either one but
> > not simultanenously. Then if photos are , say moved from laptop to the
> > desktop, the tags on the laptop migrate to the desktop.
>
> Currently this is not possible.  The main reason is because all of the
> information about tags and what not is stored in a single file
> ~/.gnome2/f-spot/photos.db.

If he is using F-Spot >=0.2.2 he can save the tags as XMP fields and
reimport them. Also, there is a bug about Library support, which if
implemented would solve your problem.

http://what-is-what.com/what_is/xmp.html