Re: [gthumb-list] I'm very confused about display of EXIF and IPTC data in gthumb

[Chris Green <cl isbd net>]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 08:34:04PM +0100, Paolo Bacchilega wrote:
> Il 22/01/2012 18:55, Chris Green ha scritto:
> > I'm trying to understand what gthumb is doing about EXIF and IPTC data
> > when browsing images, it seems very odd (and broken to be honest).
> >
> > I'm running gThumb version 2.13.1 on xubuntu 11.10.
> >
> > When I browse images that definitely have information that should be
> > being shown (I have Description, Name, Date and Title ticked in
> > preferences) all that is shown below the image is the filename.
> > Selecting the image and viewing it large in the browser makes no
> > difference, when I return to the browser there's still no information.
> > All the information does appear in the sidebar OK.
> >
> > The *only* way I can get information to appear in the browser is to
> > click on "Comment" and then save the comment, the information then
> > appears in the browser.  *However* (and I think this is rather bad)
> > gThumb has then written to the EXIF information by putting "gThumb
> > 2.13.1" in Exif General->Software.  I don't want gThumb writing to my
> > files without asking me really.  If this was a digital image I'd lose
> > the record of which camera had taken the picture.
>
> Blame your distribution that ships software that is still in
> development and not declared stable by their developers.  Version
> 2.13.1 was a development version and you shouldn't use it, version
> 2.14.1 for example doesn't have the problem you describe.
Ah, thanks, so gThumb uses the "odd numbers = development", "even
numbers = stable" release cycle does it? 

I'm surprised that such a main stream distribution as Ubuntu gets this
wrong but I suppose one can't expect everything to be right all the
time. 

So, how do I get 2.14.1 installed?  I just tried going to the Gnome web
site at http://live.gnome.org/gthumb but that was a bit of a failure! I
clicked on "Ubuntu users can just click here to install the gthumb
package." and it didn't work, a window popped up telling me that "this
link needs to be opened with an application".

Is there a repository where I can find the latest stable gThumb or
(almost better) is there a .deb file I can download?

-- 
Chris Green