Re: Refreshing photo date-time field from file

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 00:04 +0200, Eric Mountain wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Hit a problem with some of the photos I had imported: some had incorrect 
> timestamps.  The EXIF data however has the correct date, so I could fix the 
> timestamp on disk.  However, from there I see no way of getting f-spot to 
> refresh the value it has squirrelled away in its DB.
> 
> I wrote an extension which I would like to share once I've brushed it up a 
> little - assuming of course f-spot doesn't already have a way of achieving 
> this.  (NB - it's not the same in my view as the "Adjust time" option which I 
> found very useful for another problem I had.)
> 
> This extension appears on the photo popup menu (like e.g. Develop in ufraw).  
> I would like to give the user 2 options: refresh from file mod time, or from 
> EXIF time.  How can I define my extension to create a submenu off the popup 
> menu to avoid clutter?
> 
> i.e. I would like to do something like:
> 
> <Extension path="/FSpot/Menus/PhotoPopup">
>   <SubMenu id="..." _label="Refresh Date From File..." insertbefore="...">
>     <Command id="RefreshDateFromFileModTime" [...] />
>     <Command id="RefreshDateFromFileExif" [...] />
>   </SubMenu>
> </Extension>
> 
> I don't see how to do the <SubMenu> bit.  Would someone please help me out?

iirc, it's 

<Menu id="..." _label="...">
 <Command id="..." [...] />
 [...]
</Menu>

> 
> Thanks,
> Eric