[Shotwell] Regenerate thumbnails?

[pt]

On 27 August 2011 16:06, oliver <oliver at first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 09:16:23PM +0200, pt wrote:
>> On 26 August 2011 18:55, Andy Stevens <insomniacpenguin at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Also, is there any way to edit the pictures' extended metadata, not just
>> > the basic title/tags/rotation/timestamp?
>>
>> As far as I know, Shotwell just does the 'title' tag (and F-spot just
>> the 'description').
>>
>> Usually I use geeqie (sudo apt-get install geeqie) for all the
>> tagging, because it supports reading and writing of many more tags
>> (AFAIK most of the XMP stuff, including copyright, location and so
>> on).
>
> Hmhhh... does shotwell make the tags part of the image (EXIF-headers / jpg-comments)?
> I thought the tags are hold in the database...
> So I wonder why you would use exiftool to add tags to be used in shotwell...

Because he was asking how to fill-in the many metadata fields that
Shotwell doesn't handle (apart from 'keyword' and 'title').

Plus those extra tags are not to be 'used in Shotwell', but they will
be part of the image metadata, to be used -- for example -- with other
software or in web pages.

Ciao ciao,
Piergi

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