Re: [gthumb-list] Selected browser caption fields don't appear unless Comment is opened and closed

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Il 30/12/2011 11:15, Chris Green ha scritto:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:32:25PM +0100, Paolo Bacchilega wrote:
> > Il 29/12/2011 19:53, Chris Green ha scritto:
> > > In preferences I have selected 'Description', 'Date', 'Name' and 'Title'
> > > to be displayed in the caption in the browser.  However all that appears
> > > is the file name for the image until I click on Comment and then close
> > > the Comment window after which all the selected fields appear in the
> > > caption.
> > >
> > > Once I have done this (that is open and close the Comment box) for an
> > > image the caption stays populated.  It's going to take a *long* time to
> > > do this for several thousand images though!  Is there some way I can get
> > > the captions populated automatically?
> >
> > What exactly happens here is that when you select a file the
> > embedded metadata is read and saved in an external comment file that
> > will be used by the file list view to display the description, the
> > title and the other fields you selected. This is done for
> > performance reasons because reading the embedded metadata is a slow
> > task.
> >
> > So actually you can just select the file to synchronize the
> > metadata, without the need to open the comment dialog.
> When you say "select the file" what do you mean exactly?  If I select
> the image in the browser then the caption isn't updated, even if I
> 'open' (i.e.  display large) the image I don't get the caption.  The
> only way I can find to make the caption display appears to be by opening
> and closing the comment pop-up.

in version 2.14 if you click on the thumbnail the comment is updated, I 
don't remember if this is supposed to work with previous versions as well.

> > Maybe we could add a tool to do this task automatically for all the
> > files in the current folder.
> Yes, that would certainly be useful, make it recurse through the
> hierarchy so that one can do this for a whole directory structure if one
> wants to.

ok

- Paolo