Re: Adding new metadata

["Juan A." Suárez Romero <jasuarez igalia com>]

On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 13:26 +0000, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 14:01 +0100, Juan A. Suárez Romero wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 18:15 +0000, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I would like to add some new metadata key mostly to handle some EXIF
> > > property available on pictures. Here is the list of what I would like to
> > > support :
> > > 	   - camera model
> > >            - original resolution
> > >            - date taken
> > >            - orientation
> > >            - flash usage
> > >            - exposure time
> > >            - original size (XResolution/YResolution)
> > > 
> > > Some of these properties are quite specific. How would you like to see
> > > them appear in Grilo ? :
> > > 	- exposed in the core as well as already available properties ?
> > > 	- private to one plugin ?
> > > 
> > 
> > Being EXIF properties, and thus a standard, I would add them to core. I
> > don't see them specific to a plugin, but useful for any plugin that can
> > return photos (like Flickr).
> > 
> 
> In the end, do we want a particular prefix for these keys ?
> 


I wouldn't add it. IMHO key names should be as natural as possible.
Prefixing them with something like "image-" or "exif-" seems to add a
restriction to their use.

	J.A.