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

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Il 29/12/2011 22:32, Paolo Bacchilega ha scritto:
> 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.
>
> Maybe we could add a tool to do this task automatically for all the
> files in the current folder.

this tool has been added in the current development version and will be 
available in the next major release.

- Paolo