Re: [gthumb-list] Current time for imports (patch)

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Marcel Stimberg ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> while gthumb-2.10 calculated a folder name once for an import, the new
> gthumb calculates the destination for every file individually. This
> can lead to possibly unexpected behavior if you use "current time" and
> "custom" with an format like the old one (%Y-%m-%d--%H.%M.%S), because
> you now get a new folder every second... The attached patch tries to
> change this (hopefully in a sane way...) by setting an
> import_start_time at the beginning of the import and using this as the
> "current time" for the complete import.
>
> BTW, I looked into this because of a blog post (and my ensuing
> discussion with the author) that I stumbled upon on Planet Ubuntu:
> http://q-funk.blogspot.com/2010/03/gthumb-thank-you-for-breaking-my.html
>
>   

hey, thanks for defending gthumb :)

and thanks for the patch, which is now in master

> Something unrelated: Current gthumb does not seem to be able to
> extract any metadata from my image (like shutter speed, original
> date,... ) - is this a known regression (at least I think 2.10 did
> show all the metadata)?
>   

the differences with version 2.10 are that for jpeg images version 2.11 
uses exiv2 instead of libexif , and for raw images 2.10 uses dcraw, 
while version 2.11 can be configured to use libopenraw or dcraw.  Then 
if your images are in jpeg format it is a exiv2 bug, if the images are 
in raw format it's likely that you are using libopenraw instead of dcraw 
otherwise there is a bug somewhere in gthumb :)

> Thanks, best
>  Marcel
>   


- Paolo