Re: critical missing feature: embedding tags in EXIF/IPTC

[Mike Gemünde <mike gemuende de>]

Hi,

I'm not sure which version of f-spot you are using. I guess that you use
the one from latest (stable) ubuntu, this should be 0.6.5. The 0.7.x
series uses a new metadata backend which ruben and me build on base of
taglib-sharp. So, metadata handling will change a bit in the future.

However, our taglib-sharp implementation currently not supports ITPC
records and I'm not sure if it will. All IPTC data can also be stored in
the xmp namespaces Iptc4xmpCore and Iptc4xmpExt. I think that some of
this fields will be used in the future for storing metadata.

However, all tags are stored (in 0.6.5 and in all other versions) in xmp
(as long as the "write metadata to file" option is enabled). So every
other (reasonable) photo application should be able read them.


Mike



Am Samstag, den 28.08.2010, 19:13 -0400 schrieb e.m.fields:
> Hi all,
> As a Ubuntu user I love F-Spot for its quality integration with
> Gnome / Nautilus, and I'm very pleased with the refreshingly intuitive
> interface, (Go U.I. team!) ... and I'm ESPECIALLY happy to see the
> integration of a good versioning system, but there's one feature that
> has me switching away from f-spot towards the KDE application digiKam,
> despite its more complicated and not-well-integrated interface, (not
> to mention the annoyance of the 100 other bundled KDE apps on my GNOME
> desktop!).
> 
> But that missing feature is the embedding / importing / exporting of
> image tags within the image, in IPTC/EXIF format.  Right now, if I tag
> and organize all my photos within F-spot and then move those images
> someday to another system (or another hard drive), all those tags are
> lost except within the old F-Spot database.  This is tying the user
> into one system, and locking them into one software package, which is
> not very much the FOSS/Linux way of doing things, no?
> 
> I understand there were probably some intelligent reasons made for
> this decision not to use IPTC tags, but why should this not be an
> option?
> 
> If anyone can correct me on this and say that this feature is possible
> or "in the pipeline", I would be exuberantly happy to hear so.
> Otherwise I shall (sadly) be continuing my migration to digiKam. 
> 
> I sincerely hope that this feature will be considered seriously by the
> development team.
> 
> peace, and thank you to the development team for this quality piece of
> open-source software
> 
> - e.m.fields
> chapel hill, nc
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